Senior AI Compute Engineer

Nvidia

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Santa Clara, CA
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Full-time
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40 days ago
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Nvidia is a leading designer of graphics processing units (GPUs) and system-on-chip units, powering gaming, professional visualization, data centers, and artificial intelligence workloads. Industry: Semiconductors & AI Computing

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TL;DR · Senior AI Compute Engineer

The Senior AI Compute Engineer - NVIS joins the Infrastructure Specialists team to build some of the world's largest and fastest AI Compute systems. This role involves interacting with customers, partners, and internal teams to analyze, define, and implement large-scale AI Compute projects. Primary responsibilities include deploying, managing, and validating AI Compute and HPC infrastructure in Linux-based environments. The engineer serves as a domain expert during planning calls, performs knowledge transfers, and provides feedback to internal teams. Required skills include Linux system administration, networking, and scripting in Bash, Python, or Ansible. Candidates must possess experience with schedulers like SLURM or LSF, benchmarking tools like MLPerf, and Kubernetes. The work focuses on solving complex hardware and software problems for deep learning and data analytics.

What you'll do

  • Deploy, manage, and validate AI Compute and HPC infrastructure in Linux-based environments.
  • Serve as the primary domain expert for customers during planning and implementation calls.
  • Create handover documentation and perform knowledge transfers to support customer system rollouts.
  • Provide technical feedback to internal teams by opening bugs and documenting workarounds.
  • Perform system administration including process management, kernel management, and network routing.
  • Provision and manage clusters for bare-metal servers using technologies like BCM.
  • Execute performance reporting, optimization, and logging for large-scale AI projects.
  • Utilize benchmarking tools such as HPL, NCCL tests, and MLPerf to validate systems.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of experience providing in-depth support and deployment services for hardware and software products.
  • Knowledge of Linux system administration, including process management, kernel management, and network routing.
  • Minimum of a four-year degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • Proficiency in scripting languages such as Bash, Python, and Ansible.
  • Experience with schedulers like SLURM, LSF, or UGE.
  • Experience with benchmarking tools like HPL, NCCL tests, MLPerf, and Kubernetes.
  • Ability to travel to customer sites within the United States up to 20% of the time.
  • Experience with InfiniBand, GPU hardware/software, MPI, Lustre/GPFS, or OEM GPU platforms (preferred).

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