Staff Engineer - Bare-Metal & GPU Fleet Provisioning

Prime Intellect; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Prime Intellect in the United States is seeking an experienced infrastructure engineer to turn bare-metal GPU servers into reliable, production-ready compute. You will own the machine lifecycle from discovery and provisioning through validation, upgrades, repair, and secure reuse as our fleet grows.

You will build automated workflows for GPU servers, automate BIOS, NIC, and firmware, develop inventory and lifecycle services, and integrate with SLURM, Kubernetes, and compute allocation systems to

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

• 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

Infrastructure automation

Python

Go

Bash

Partial failure design

Incident ownership

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

MAAS

Ironic

Tinkerbell

Job description

Prime Intellect in the United States is seeking an experienced infrastructure engineer to turn bare-metal GPU servers into reliable, production-ready compute. You will own the machine lifecycle from discovery and provisioning through validation, upgrades, repair, and secure reuse as our fleet grows.

You will build automated workflows for GPU servers, automate BIOS, NIC, and firmware, develop inventory and lifecycle services, and integrate with SLURM, Kubernetes, and compute allocation systems to