Systems Engineer, HPC

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in France.

📋 Description

• Manage and sustain extensive Linux environments (bare metal, clusters, cloud).

• Oversee system health, resolve incidents, and ensure continuous availability.

• Provide support for production and research workloads across diverse environments.

• Assist in scaling clusters to accommodate hundreds to thousands of nodes.

• Work with systems that handle petabyte-scale storage solutions.

• Enhance performance, reliability, and resource utilization.

• Automate operational tasks using tools such as Python, Bash, Ansible, or Terraform.

• Optimize deployment, provisioning, and system lifecycle management processes.

• Participate in system design and architectural decisions.

• Act as a liaison between users and the infrastructure.

⛳️ Requirements

• Solid experience in Linux systems administration (essential requirement).

• Background in large-scale environments: HPC clusters or cloud infrastructures.

• Familiarity with job schedulers (e.g., Slurm).

• Strong troubleshooting abilities across systems, hardware, and networks.

• Knowledge of containers/orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).

• Experience with storage systems (e.g., Ceph, Lustre, NFS).

• Understanding of networking fundamentals (Ethernet; InfiniBand is a bonus).

• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code / automation tools.

• Experience with GPU or AI/ML technologies.

🏝️ Benefits

• Impact: Play a pivotal role in scaling Mistral’s cutting-edge AI infrastructure.

• Growth: Opportunity to shape data centre operations from the ground up in a high-growth startup environment.

• Collaboration: Work with a talented, cross-functional team passionate about AI and technology.

• Flexibility: Competitive compensation, benefits, and the chance to contribute to revolutionary projects.