Systems Engineer (HPC)

TL;DR

Systems Engineer (HPC): Designing, operating, and scaling high-performance infrastructure for AI platforms with an accent on Linux environment management, HPC cluster reliability, and large-scale automation. Focus on scaling systems to thousands of nodes, managing petabyte-scale storage, and optimizing performance for research and production workloads.

Location: Must be based in the US or Canada (Montreal, Toronto, New York, Palo Alto, San Francisco).

Company

hirify.global is a pioneering startup building high-performance, open, and efficient AI systems to power the next generation of applications.

What you will do

• Operate and maintain large-scale Linux environments across bare metal, clusters, and cloud.
• Monitor system health, troubleshoot incidents, and ensure high availability for research and production workloads.
• Scale infrastructure to support thousands of nodes and petabyte-scale storage systems.
• Automate operational tasks and improve provisioning using Python, Bash, Ansible, or Terraform.
• Collaborate with HPC, platform, and research teams to drive system architecture decisions.

Requirements

• Must be based in the US or Canada.
• Strong Linux systems administration experience.
• Experience working in large-scale environments such as HPC clusters or cloud infrastructure.
• Proficiency with job schedulers like Slurm.
• Solid troubleshooting skills across systems, hardware, and networks.

Nice to have

• Experience with container orchestration like Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of storage systems such as Ceph, Lustre, or NFS.
• Networking fundamentals including Ethernet and InfiniBand.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation tooling.
• Background in GPU or AI/ML infrastructure.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to shape data center operations from the ground up in a high-growth AI startup.
• Collaborative, low-ego, and highly technical team environment.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Direct impact on scaling cutting-edge AI infrastructure.