Staff Engineer, Bare-Metal GPU Fleet Provisioning

Prime Intellect; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Prime Intellect in San Francisco builds the open frontier AI infrastructure and seeks an Infrastructure Engineer to own the machine lifecycle, turning bare-metal GPU servers into production-ready compute. You will manage discovery, provisioning, validation, upgrades, repair, and secure reuse.

You’ll implement automated discovery, imaging, BIOS/firmware configuration, and health checks, integrating with SLURM, Kubernetes, and compute allocation systems to scale deployments.

Qualifications

• Experience operating Linux servers in production environments.
• Hands-on with PXE/iPXE, DHCP, image provisioning and out-of-band management such as Redfish/IPMI.
• Strong software engineering skills in Python/Go and Bash.
• Ability to design automation that handles partial failures, retries and drift.

Responsibilities

• Build automated discovery, network boot, OS imaging, and configuration workflows for GPU servers.
• Automate BIOS, BMC, NIC, GPU driver, and firmware configurations with safe rollouts.
• Develop hardware inventory and lifecycle services tracking identity, config, health, readiness.
• Create burn-in tests for GPUs, memory, storage, and interconnects before production.
• Integrate provisioning and health checks with SLURM, Kubernetes, and compute allocation systems.
• Build observability, repair, and re-provisioning workflows; collaborate with data center teams.
• Implement secure credential handling and tenant isolation across server lifecycle.

Skills

Linux servers

Bare-metal automation

PXE/iPXE

DHCP

Image provisioning

Redfish/IPMI

Python

Go

Bash

Incident ownership

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Kubernetes

SLURM

Job description

Prime Intellect in San Francisco builds the open frontier AI infrastructure and seeks an Infrastructure Engineer to own the machine lifecycle, turning bare-metal GPU servers into production-ready compute. You will manage discovery, provisioning, validation, upgrades, repair, and secure reuse.

You’ll implement automated discovery, imaging, BIOS/firmware configuration, and health checks, integrating with SLURM, Kubernetes, and compute allocation systems to scale deployments.