Senior HPC AI Cluster Engineer

Description

NVIDIA is looking for an experienced HPC-AI Engineer to join the Networking Clusters Solutions Infrastructure team. we are focused on building supercomputers and AI clusters based on groundbreaking technologies. We are looking for an outstanding engineer, be a key player to the most exciting computing hardware and software to contribute to the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and GPU computing. Provide insights on at-scale system design and tuning mechanisms for large-scale compute runs. You will work with the latest Accelerated computing and Deep Learning software and hardware platforms, and with many scientific researchers, developers, and customers to craft improved workflows and develop new, leading differentiated solutions. You will interact with HPC, OS, GPU compute, and systems specialist to architect, develop and bring up large scale performance platforms.

What you will be doing:

Design, implement and maintain large scale HPC/AI clusters with monitoring, logging and alerting

Manage Linux job/workload schedules and orchestration tools

Develop and maintain continuous integration and delivery pipelines

Develop tooling to automate deployment and management of large-scale infrastructure environments, to automate operational monitoring and alerting, and to enable self-service consumption of resources

Deploy monitoring solutions for the servers, network and storage

Perform troubleshooting bottom up from bare metal, operating system, software stack and application level

Being a technical resource, develop, re-define and document standard methodologies to share with internal teams

Support Research & Development activities and engage in POCs/POVs for future improvements

What we need to see:

A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field and 8+ years of experience

Knowledge of HPC and AI solution technologies from CPU’s and GPU’s to high speed interconnects and supporting software

Experience with job scheduling workloads and orchestration tools such as Slurm, K8s

Excellent knowledge of Windows and Linux (Redhat/CentOS and Ubuntu) networking (sockets, firewalld, iptables, wireshark, etc.) and internals, ACLs and OS level security protection and common protocols e.g. TCP, DHCP, DNS, etc.

Experience with multiple storage solutions such as Lustre, GPFS, Weka.io. Familiarity with newer and emerging storage technologies.

Python programming and bash scripting experience.

Comfortable with automation and configuration management tools such as Jenkins, Ansible, Puppet/chef

Deep knowledge of Networking Protocols like InfiniBand, Ethernet

Deep understanding and experience with virtual systems (for example VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, or Citrix)

Familiarity with cloud computing platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

Knowledge of CPU and/or GPU architecture

Knowledge of Kubernetes, container related microservice technologies

Experience with GPU-focused hardware/software (DGX, Cuda)

Experience with RDMA (InfiniBand or RoCE) fabrics