Staff Engineer, GPU Infrastructure & Automation

Matcha; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack. We are seeking an infrastructure engineer to own the machine lifecycle from discovery to secure reuse, enabling production-grade GPU servers.

You will automate provisioning, BIOS, BMC, drivers, and firmware; integrate with SLURM and Kubernetes; and collaborate with datacenter teams to keep systems healthy. Compensation ranges from $150k to $300k plus equity.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience operating Linux servers or building bare-metal 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

Python

Go

Bash

Automation design

Incident ownership

Tools

PXE/iPXE

Redfish/IPMI

Ansible

Terraform

Kubernetes

SLURM

MAAS

Ironic

Job description

Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack. We are seeking an infrastructure engineer to own the machine lifecycle from discovery to secure reuse, enabling production-grade GPU servers.

You will automate provisioning, BIOS, BMC, drivers, and firmware; integrate with SLURM and Kubernetes; and collaborate with datacenter teams to keep systems healthy. Compensation ranges from $150k to $300k plus equity.