Senior AI and ML HPC Cluster Engineer

Nvidia
US, CA, Santa Clara / US, TX, Austin / US, CO, Remote2026-04-24remote_local

About the job

As a member of the GPU AI/HPC Infrastructure team, you will provide leadership in the design and implementation of ground breaking GPU compute clusters that run demanding deep learning, high performance computing, and computationally intensive workloads. We seek a technical leader to identify architectural changes and/or completely new approaches for our GPU Compute Clusters. As an expert, you will help us with the strategic challenges we encounter including: compute, networking, and storage design for large scale, high performance workloads, effective resource utilization in a heterogeneous compute environment, evolving our private/public cloud strategy, capacity modeling, and growth planning across our global computing environment.

Responsibilities

Provide leadership and strategic guidance on the management of large-scale HPC systems including the deployment of compute, networking, and storage.

Develop and improve our ecosystem around GPU-accelerated computing including developing scalable automation solutions

Build and maintain AI and ML heterogeneous clusters on-premises and in the cloud

Create and cultivate customer and cross-team relationships to reliably sustain the clusters and meet user evolving user needs

Support our researchers to run their workloads including performance analysis and optimizations

Conduct root cause analysis and suggest corrective action Proactively find and fix issues before they occur

Qualifications

Minimum

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field or equivalent experience

Minimum 5+ years of experience designing and operating large scale compute infrastructure

Experience with AI/HPC advanced job schedulers, such as Slurm, K8s, PBS, RTDA or LSF

Proficient in administering Centos/RHEL and/or Ubuntu Linux distributions

Solid understanding of cluster configuration managements tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Salt

In depth understating of container technologies like Docker, Singularity, Podman, Shifter, Charliecloud

Proficiency in Python programming and bash scripting

Applied experience with AI/HPC workflows that use MPI

Experience analyzing and tuning performance for a variety of AI/HPC workloads.

Preferred

Background with NVIDIA GPUs, CUDA Programming, NCCL and MLPerf benchmarking

Experience with Machine Learning and Deep Learning concepts, algorithms and models

Familiarity with InfiniBand with IPoIB and RDMA

Understanding of fast, distributed storage systems like Lustre and GPFS for AI/HPC workloads

Familiarity with deep learning frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow