
GPU Compute & Bare Metal / DPU Engineer
Posted Aug 28

Posted Aug 28
This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +1 more state.
β’ Take full responsibility for the entire lifecycle of bare-metal GPU nodes, encompassing provisioning, delivery/onboarding, in-service operations, break-fix, and decommissioning across various regions.
β’ Develop and maintain automated, repeatable node-delivery pipelines to eliminate delivery backlogs and facilitate fleet expansion towards 10,000+ GPUs.
β’ Oversee DPU/SmartNIC and server firmware management, including BMC, BIOS, NIC, and GPU firmware version baselines, upgrades, and validations.
β’ Enhance fleet reliability by minimizing MTTR, leading incident response efforts, conducting root-cause analyses, and advancing hardware health monitoring.
β’ Engage in a sustainable 7Γ24 multi-region on-call rotation.
β’ Create runbooks and tools to minimize manual tasks.
β’ Collaborate with Storage/Image and Network teams to optimize the provisioning-to-handoff process.
β’ Establish standards for bring-up, rack, capacity, and acceptance for new GPU SKUs and data center regions.
β’ A minimum of 3 years of experience in large-scale bare-metal/server-fleet operations, HPC, or cloud infrastructure (6+ years for Senior-level candidates).
β’ Practical experience operating GPU servers at scale, such as NVIDIA HGX/DGX-class systems.
β’ Proficiency in driver/CUDA and firmware management.
β’ Strong skills in Linux systems.
β’ Experience with PXE/IPMI/Redfish, OS imaging, and automated provisioning.
β’ Familiarity with DPU/SmartNIC technologies, including NVIDIA BlueField, and bare-metal networking.
β’ Skills in infrastructure automation using Ansible, Terraform, Python, or Go.
β’ Comfortable taking ownership of on-call duties, incident management, and operational runbooks.
β’ Experience in multi-region/large-fleet operations is a significant advantage.
β’ Equal employment opportunities in compliance with country, state, and local laws.
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