Systems Design Eng - AI Cluster Software Engineer

• Partner with engineering peers, domain experts in adjacent teams, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into flexible, future-proof design solutions
• Hands on development, iteration, and maintenance of tools and applications that codify various aspects of large-scale AI cluster design stages and cluster deployment activities
• Design and development of cohesive interface code between disparate third party tools
• Own features from requirements and design through deployment and ongoing maintenance
• Work in an iterative software environment, including planning and delivering work in small increments, collaborating with stakeholders, often in different areas of domain expertise (Agile development practices)
• Participate in code reviews and retros; adapt to changing requirements and priorities

• Strong Linux fundamentals: Linux operating systems, networking, filesystems, containers, performance tooling (perf, flamegraphs, nvprof/rocprof, basic eBPF).
• Clear communication: ability to turn complex systems into accessible, structured documentation with diagrams and reproducible steps
• AMD ecosystem experience: ROCm, RCCL, Instinct GPUs, EPYC platforms, compiler/toolchain impacts, and performance tuning
• Orchestration models: Slurm configuration patterns, Kubernetes for HPC/AI (GPU operators, device plugins), Apptainer/Singularity
• Automation, IaC , and scripting tools/languages (Ansible, Terraform, Python, bash)
• Storage/data: knowledge of or familiarity with parallel filesystems (Lustre, BeeGFS), object stores, RDMA, data pipeline throughput and caching strategies
• Hands-on familiarity with on-premises infrastructure, particularly for AI/ML/HPC workloads would be beneficial

Bachelors or M asters degree in computer science, or software/computer engineering

• Austin, TX

• Secaucus, NJ
• Seattle, WA

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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