Open roles · San Jose, CA
Senior Systems Engineer, GPU Cluster Operations
- Pay
- $190,000-$240,000 per year
- Type
- Full-time
- Shift
- On site, days, on-call rotation
Posted 2026-10-06 · Employer: Confidential AI compute cloud provider. Your application goes straight to Czarina Tabayoyong, who is running this search.
What you will do
- Provision and maintain large fleets of NVIDIA GPU bare-metal servers
- Manage OS imaging, PXE boot and configuration management
- Troubleshoot GPU health: ECC errors, Xid events, thermals, driver and CUDA stack
- Run BIOS, BMC, NIC and GPU firmware upgrades across the fleet
- Administer Slurm partitions, QoS, accounting and fair-share policies
- Automate node health checks, drain and repair workflows and burn-in testing
What you bring
- 5+ years of Linux systems engineering on 100+ node fleets
- Deep Ubuntu or RHEL knowledge: PXE, systemd, kernel tuning
- Hands-on NVIDIA GPUs: drivers, CUDA, nvidia-smi, DCGM
- Slurm or a similar HPC scheduler
- Python and Bash; Ansible or equivalent
- BMC, IPMI and Redfish out-of-band management
- US work authorization
Who is hiring
Confidential AI compute cloud provider, hiring in San Jose, CA. The employer is kept confidential in the public posting at their request; the company name, site and team structure are shared with you on the first screening call before anything is submitted.
- Posting reference
- senior-systems-engineer-gpu-cluster-san-jose
- Posted
- 2026-10-06
- Open through
- 2027-01-06
Who is recruiting
Critical Path Hiring, an independent, founder-led recruiting practice for data center, GPU cloud and AI infrastructure employers. Every search is run end to end by Czarina Tabayoyong, Founder & Principal Recruiter, with more than 15 years of recruiting experience in technical recruiting across cloud infrastructure, critical facilities and AI platform teams.
- Contact
- czarina@thetalentog.com
- Coverage
- United States, nationwide
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