Staff Engineer Bare-Metal GPU Fleet Provisioning

AI Chopping Block; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack, unifying GPU compute, environments, evaluations, secure sandboxes, and deployment into a single platform for frontier-scale post-training.

You will own the machine lifecycle from discovery through repair, creating automated workflows and integrations with SLURM, Kubernetes, and telemetry to sustain a production-grade fleet.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience operating Linux servers or building bare-metal infrastructure automation in production.
• Hands-on experience with PXE/iPXE, DHCP, image provisioning, and out-of-band management such as Redfish or IPMI.
• Strong software engineering and debugging skills in Python, Go, or a comparable language, plus Bash.
• Experience designing reliable automation that handles partial failures, retries, and configuration drift.
• Ability to own operational incidents and collaborate across hardware, networking, and platform teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the machine lifecycle from discovery and provisioning through validation, upgrades, repair, and secure reuse.
• Build automated discovery, network boot, OS imaging, and configuration workflows for GPU servers.
• Automate BIOS, BMC, NIC, GPU driver, and firmware configuration with staged rollouts and safe recovery paths.
• Develop hardware inventory and lifecycle services that track machine identity, configuration, health, and readiness.
• Create acceptance tests and burn-in workflows for GPUs, memory, storage, and interconnects before capacity enters production.
• Integrate provisioning and health checks with SLURM, Kubernetes, and compute allocation systems.
• Build observability, quarantine, repair, and re-provisioning workflows; partner with datacenter teams to resolve hardware failures.
• Implement secure credential handling, tenant isolation, and data sanitization across the server lifecycle.

Skills

Linux servers

PXE/iPXE provisioning

Python/Go

Automation design

Incident management

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

OS image management

BMC telemetry

Networking basics

Job description

Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack, unifying GPU compute, environments, evaluations, secure sandboxes, and deployment into a single platform for frontier-scale post-training.

You will own the machine lifecycle from discovery through repair, creating automated workflows and integrations with SLURM, Kubernetes, and telemetry to sustain a production-grade fleet.