Senior HPC Cluster Engineer - AI, ML

Role overview

Senior HPC Cluster Engineer - AI, ML at NVIDIA

Provide leadership in systems administration and service delivery on our AI/HPC fleet by coordinating system upgrades, responding to incidents, and delivering reliability improvements.

Responsibilities

• You will provide leadership and strategic guidance on the management of large-scale HPC systems including the deployment of compute, networking, and storage.
• Collaborate closely with global teams to deliver a world class user experience in AI and HPC research.
• Own day-to-day operations of production AI/HPC clusters, ensuring system health, user satisfaction, and efficient resource utilization.
• Develop and improve our ecosystem around GPU-accelerated computing including developing scalable automation solutions.
• Build and maintain heterogeneous AI/ML clusters on-premises and in the cloud.
• Create and cultivate customer and cross-team relationships to meet user evolving user needs.
• Support our researchers to run their workloads including performance analysis and optimizations
• Analyze and optimize cluster efficiency, job fragmentation, and GPU waste to meet internal SLA targets.
• Conduct root cause analysis and suggest corrective action Proactively find and fix issues before they occur.
• Lead SEV triage and postmortems for reliability incidents affecting users or infrastructure.
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response for critical production GPU clusters.
• What we need to see:
• 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, BCM, or LSF
• Proficient in administering Centos/RHEL and/or Ubuntu Linux distributions
• Solid understanding of cluster configuration management tools (BCM, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Salt, etc.), container technologies (Docker, Singularity, Podman, Shifter, Charliecloud), 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.
• Passion for continual learning and staying ahead of emerging technologies and effective approaches in the HPC and AI/ML infrastructure fields.
• Ways to stand out from the crowd:
• Background with NVIDIA GPUs, CUDA Programming, NCCL and MLPerf benchmarking
• Experience with AI/ML concepts, algorithms, models, and frameworks (PyTorch, Tensorflow)
• Experience with InfiniBand with IPoIB and RDMA
• Understanding of fast, distributed storage systems such as Lustre and GPFS for AI/HPC workloads

Employment details

• Location: India [Bengaluru], India [Remote], India [Pune]

About the employer

• NVIDIA is a pioneer in accelerated computing, known for inventing the GPU and driving breakthroughs in gaming, computer graphics, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence.
• You will be working with a team of passionate and skilled engineers across NVIDIA that are continuously working to provide better tools to build and manage this infrastructure.

Additional role details

• Our technology powers everything from generative AI to autonomous systems, and we continue to shape the future of computing through innovation and collaboration.
• Within this mission, our team, Managed AI Superclusters (MARS) builds and scales the infrastructure, platforms, and tools that enable researchers and engineers to develop the next generation of AI/ML systems.
• By joining us, you’ll help design solutions that power some of the world’s most advanced computing workloads.
• NVIDIA is looking for a Senior AI/ML HPC Cluster Engineer to join our MARS team.
• Ideal candidate is strong in building and maintaining distributed clusters, driving improvements, and has the ability to understand researcher computing needs.