Staff Engineer, GPU HPC & AI Compute Infra

Pronto; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 224,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

Equity

Sick Time and Paid Holidays

Team lunch in SoMa office

Job summary

Pronto is seeking a Staff Engineer to build the physical compute infrastructure powering AI, robotics, and autonomous systems. You will lead GPU HPC deployments, scale architecture, and work with facilities to deliver data-center-ready capacity in a fast-moving environment.

You will own networking, storage, and hardware design for large-scale compute while driving automation and reliability across the platform. This role is based in San Francisco and onsite five days a week.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of infrastructure engineering or related HPC fields.
• Experience designing, deploying, commissioning, or expanding physical compute infrastructure (HPC, GPU clusters, large-scale data centers).
• Ability to lead complex infrastructure initiatives end-to-end from requirements to production readiness.
• Strong Linux, server hardware, networking, and storage foundations.
• Experience in high-performance or large-scale computing environments with AI/ML workloads.
• Hands-on infrastructure automation using Python, Go, Bash, Ansible or similar.
• Experience evaluating hardware, networking, and storage tradeoffs for cost/performance.
• Knowledge of data-center power, cooling, rack density, cabling, and connectivity.
• Strong troubleshooting across hardware, OS, networking, and storage.

Responsibilities

• Build AI compute infrastructure from the ground up, deploying GPU and HPC resources.
• Define foundation to scale to thousands of GPUs and exabyte-scale storage.
• Own compute and hardware architecture decisions for GPU servers and network gear.
• Design high-performance networking and distributed storage for compute workloads.
• Collaborate with facilities and real estate to translate compute needs into power and cooling specs.
• Drive end-to-end infrastructure deployment with vendors and internal teams.
• Develop tooling for bare-metal provisioning, monitoring, and incident response.
• Plan capacity and improve reliability as compute demand grows.

Skills

HPC infrastructure

GPU clusters

Linux

Networking

Storage

Data-center design

Automation tooling

Python

Go

Bash

Ansible

NVIDIA DGX knowledge

Kubernetes

Slurm

PXE provisioning

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE or equivalent experience

Tools

PXE

Warewulf

NVIDIA Base Command Manager

Kubernetes

Slurm

InfiniBand

Job description

Pronto is seeking a Staff Engineer to build the physical compute infrastructure powering AI, robotics, and autonomous systems. You will lead GPU HPC deployments, scale architecture, and work with facilities to deliver data-center-ready capacity in a fast-moving environment.

You will own networking, storage, and hardware design for large-scale compute while driving automation and reliability across the platform. This role is based in San Francisco and onsite five days a week.