Senior Manager, Validation and HPC

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +6 more states.

📋 Description

• Oversee and guide service HPC engineering functions focused on the design, development, installation, and validation of hardware and software for customer AI HPC systems.

• Spearhead the planning, execution, and performance assessment of HPC projects.

• Enhance the integrity of system-services bring-up by configuring and maintaining HPC AI network and server platforms.

• Lead the deployment of hardware and software by the team.

• Plan, develop, and implement system-validation procedures.

• Direct team activities, tests, and strategies for the implementation of customer HPC AI systems, along with custom scripts and testing protocols.

• Provide support to the HPC Engineering team and collaborate with internal departments to develop and execute strategies aimed at service quality and ongoing improvement.

• Mentor team members and support their career development objectives.

• Establish relationships with NVIDIA leaders, customers, partners, and collaborators.

• Identify, implement, and support NVIDIA AI solutions engineering while remaining informed about industry standards and innovations.

• Act as the subject matter expert for customers from initial planning calls through to implementation.

• Manage daily operations, provide guidance, and oversee the development of a multi-layered HPC service professional team.

• Ensure the timely completion of AI HPC data-center projects.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 10 years of overall experience in IT, high-performance computing, or a related field.

• At least 3 years of experience in a managerial or leadership capacity.

• Proven expertise in the design, configuration, and planning of HPC systems.

• Strong knowledge of HPC storage solutions.

• Proficient in low-latency/high-bandwidth interconnect infrastructure, including InfiniBand and Ethernet.

• Expertise in HPC system software cluster management and provisioning tools such as Slurm, Salt, and xCAT.

• Proficient in shared and distributed memory parallelism, including OpenMP, MPI, NCCL, and HPL.

• Experience with hardware accelerators, including GPUs.

• Strong scripting skills in languages like Bash, Perl, Python, or similar.

• Familiarity with programming fundamentals.

• Proficient in the administration, supervision, and maintenance of secure Linux/Unix operating systems, including CentOS and Solaris.

• Ability to comprehend and work with large, complex systems; troubleshoot performance issues; and resolve infrastructure-related network challenges.

• Expertise in managing multi-vendor hardware/software, security, and network/Internet protocols.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

• Experience with InfiniBand.

• Familiarity with GPU-focused hardware/software.

• Experience with MPI.

• Background in automation tooling, including Ansible, Salt, or Puppet.

• Experience with Ethernet and storage technologies such as Lustre or GPFS.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity

• Benefits