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Member of Technical Staff - GPU Infrastructure

Other • Principal • Hybrid • Full-time • United States San Francisco, USA

Prime Intellect is hiring a customer-facing GPU infrastructure engineer to design, deploy, and operate high-performance GPU clusters for clients running LLM training, inference, and HPC workloads.

Responsibilities

  • ▹Partner with clients to understand workload requirements and design optimal GPU cluster architectures
  • ▹Create technical proposals and capacity planning for clusters ranging from 100 to 10,000+ GPUs
  • ▹Develop deployment strategies for LLM training, inference, and HPC workloads
  • ▹Present architectural recommendations to technical and executive stakeholders
  • ▹Deploy and configure orchestration systems including SLURM and Kubernetes for distributed workloads
  • ▹Implement high-performance networking with InfiniBand, RoCE, and NVLink interconnects
  • ▹Optimize GPU utilization, memory management, and inter-node communication
  • ▹Configure parallel filesystems (Lustre, BeeGFS, GPFS) for optimal I/O performance
  • ▹Tune system performance from kernel parameters to CUDA configurations
  • ▹Serve as the primary technical escalation point for customer infrastructure issues
  • ▹Diagnose and resolve complex problems across hardware, drivers, networking, and software
  • ▹Implement monitoring, alerting, and automated remediation systems
  • ▹Provide 24/7 on-call support for critical customer deployments
  • ▹Create runbooks and documentation for customer operations teams

Requirements

  • ▹3+ years of hands-on experience with GPU clusters and HPC environments
  • ▹Deep expertise with SLURM and Kubernetes in production GPU settings
  • ▹Proven experience with InfiniBand configuration and troubleshooting
  • ▹Strong understanding of NVIDIA GPU architecture, the CUDA ecosystem, and driver stack
  • ▹Experience with infrastructure automation tools (Ansible, Terraform)
  • ▹Proficiency in Python, Bash, and systems programming
  • ▹Track record of customer-facing technical leadership
  • ▹NVIDIA driver installation and troubleshooting (CUDA, Fabric Manager, DCGM)
  • ▹Container runtime configuration for GPUs (Docker, Containerd, Enroot)
  • ▹Linux kernel tuning and performance optimization
  • ▹Network topology design for AI workloads
  • ▹Understanding of power and cooling requirements for high-density GPU deployments

Nice to have

  • ▹Experience with 1,000+ GPU deployments
  • ▹NVIDIA DGX, HGX, or SuperPOD certification
  • ▹Familiarity with distributed training frameworks (PyTorch FSDP, DeepSpeed, Megatron-LM)
  • ▹ML framework optimization and profiling
  • ▹Experience with AMD MI300 or Intel Gaudi accelerators
  • ▹Contributions to open-source HPC/AI infrastructure projects

Soft skills

Customer obsession and technical leadershipPrecise, hands-on problem solving in high-stakes production environments

What we offer

  • ▹Cash compensation range of $150-300k plus equity incentives

About the company

Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack: the infrastructure frontier AI labs build internally, made available to every ambitious AI team. Its platform, Lab, unifies compute, environments, evaluations, secure sandboxes, high-performance training, and deployment into one full-stack system. The company is backed by leading investors including Founders Fund, Radical Ventures, and NVIDIA.

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