Founding HPC / GPU Cluster Architect

Location: Remote, United States; quarterly travel to San Francisco, with additional architecture sessions and rare major-incident support as needed.

Salary: $220K–$400K+ annual base salary plus equity.

Company

GPU infrastructure company building and operating data centers, GPU clusters, and cloud infrastructure with VM, bare-metal, managed Slurm, and compute-resale capabilities.

What you will do

• Translate customer compute requirements into cluster architectures, hardware sizing, component selections, and bills of materials.
• Design GPU clusters using NVIDIA platforms, servers, fabrics, power systems, and cooling constraints.
• Design and validate network topology in collaboration with a dedicated network architect.
• Evaluate current and next-generation NVIDIA systems and AI infrastructure.
• Define technical direction with the CTO and founding architecture team.
• Mentor junior engineers and support exceptional hardware escalations while dedicated teams handle deployment and routine operations.

Requirements

• Personal ownership of architecture and delivery for a large, interconnected production GPU cluster.
• Clear understanding of how GPUs are networked and operated together; experience with 1,000+ GPUs is preferred.
• Experience translating customer workload requirements into hardware sizing, component choices, and bills of materials.
• Strong knowledge of current and next-generation NVIDIA GPUs and the AI stack.
• Ability to understand and independently validate cluster network topology.
• Practical depth across GPU servers, fabrics, power, and thermal constraints.
• Independent senior-level delivery, strong technical judgment, and experience mentoring engineers.
• Willingness to travel to San Francisco quarterly, attend additional architecture sessions as needed, and support rare major-incident escalations.

Nice to have

• Experience with Slurm, Kubernetes, Linux, drivers, RDMA, virtualization, or data-center telemetry.

Culture & Benefits

• Founding, high-ownership role shaping the design of next-generation GPU clusters.
• Direct collaboration with the CTO and founding architecture team.
• $220K–$400K+ annual base salary plus equity.