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Software Engineer, Frontier Systems

Builds infrastructure to monitor, detect, remediate, and verify hardware health across global GPU/CPU clusters at hyperscale. Owns node lifecycle workflows and partners with teams to ensure compute reliability for AI training and inference. Requires 7+ years experience with Python, distributed systems, and operational tooling.

250k – 445k/yr
On-site7+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Define and maintain health signals across GPUs, CPUs, networking, and platform infrastructure.
  • Build and evolve health checks that detect, remediate, and verify failures at scale.
  • Ensure critical health checks execute with minimal latency to maximize workload uptime.
  • Investigate hardware failures and system-level issues across large-scale compute environments.
  • Own node lifecycle workflows including drain, quarantine, repair, RMA, and return-to-service processes.
  • Build automation and tooling that enables global cluster management with minimal manual intervention.
  • Partner with workload, reliability, and provider teams to integrate health signals into training and inference systems.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of industry experience in software or infrastructure engineering.
  • Strong proficiency with Python and shell scripting.
  • Experience building large-scale distributed systems or infrastructure platforms.
  • Comfort digging into noisy operational data using SQL, PromQL, or similar tooling.
  • Experience building reproducible analyses and operational tooling.
  • Strong systems debugging and operational instincts with an ownership mindset.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience with low-level hardware systems and Linux tooling (e.g. PCIe, InfiniBand, RoCE, networking, power management, kernel performance tuning, FW/SW debugging).
  • Experience operating or debugging large-scale GPU or accelerator clusters.
  • Expertise in network operations, observability, or systems telemetry.
  • Experience with automated remediation systems or fleet lifecycle management.
  • Experience improving reliability, utilization, or workload uptime in distributed compute environments.

Skills

PythonSQLPromqlKubernetesLinuxPcieInfiniBandRoceGPUDistributed Systems

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