Member of Technical Staff, Supercomputing Infrastructure
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Salary$200k – $400k
LocationSan Francisco
Work modeon-site
Typefull-time
SenioritySenior
DepartmentResearch & Engineering
EquityIncluded
Company size51–200 people
PostedAug 21, 2026 · 2mo ago
Verified live10h ago
At a glanceSummarised by Seekless from the posting.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, systems administration, or similar
Hands-on experience administering large compute clusters, HPC environments, university or research clusters, supercomputing systems, or production GPU clusters
Strong Linux systems administration fundamentals across networking, processes, storage, package management, shell scripting, logs, access control, and system debugging
Experience operating GPU servers, including driver management, GPU health monitoring, node failures, memory errors, scheduler issues, and hardware diagnostics
Experience with cluster scheduling and resource allocation using SLURM, Kubernetes, or equivalent tooling
Ability to own urgent infrastructure incidents end-to-end when compute issues are blocking engineering teams
Ability to automate operational workflows using Bash, Python, Ansible, Terraform, Helm, or similar tooling
Experience managing 1,000+ GPGPUs in production
Experience operating GPU compute across providers such as Lambda, CoreWeave, Crusoe, Nebius, Together, Fireworks, RunPod, or similar environments
Experience improving cluster utilization, reducing idle or unavailable GPU capacity, and debugging scheduling or resource contention issues
Familiarity with high-performance GPU networking such as InfiniBand, RoCE, NVLink / NVSwitch, RDMA, NCCL, or equivalent systems
Experience with storage for HPC or ML workloads, including NFS, Lustre, Ceph, distributed filesystems, or other high-throughput storage systems
Experience managing secure access, identity, permissions, SSH, VPNs, bastion hosts, secrets, and basic infrastructure security hygiene
Background in research computing, scientific computing, ML infrastructure, SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure operations for engineering-heavy teams
Managed GPU or HPC infrastructure in a university lab, national lab, research institution, AI infrastructure company, hedge fund, HFT firm, or large-scale ML platform team
Built monitoring, alerting, runbooks, health checks, or remediation workflows that materially reduced operational toil or incident resolution time
Operated Kubernetes clusters for ML or GPU workloads at meaningful scale
Standardized provisioning, diagnostics, monitoring, and operating patterns across multiple compute providers
Carried real operational responsibility for infrastructure used by many engineers or researchers
We sponsor visas on a case-by-case basis
Skills
Bash
Python
Ansible
Terraform
Helm
SLURM
Kubernetes
NVIDIA
AMD
Google TPU
InfiniBand
RoCE
NVLink
NVSwitch
RDMA
NCCL
NFS
Lustre
Ceph
Linux
Benefits
Health insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
401(k)
About the company
Inferact’s mission is to grow vLLM as the world’s AI inference engine and accelerate AI progress by making inference cheaper and faster. Founded by the creators and core maintainers of vLLM, we sit at the intersection of models and hardware—a position that took years to build.
About the Role
We’re looking for a hands-on supercomputing infrastructure engineer to own and operate the high-performance compute infrastructure that keeps Inferact engineering productive. Inferact runs on expensive, high-performance GPU and HPC clusters across neo-cloud and dedicated compute providers, on heterogeneous hardware that spans NVIDIA GPUs, AMD GPUs, and Google TPUs. Your job is to make sure that infrastructure is healthy, available, observable, and usable around the clock.
You’ll take ownership of cluster health, accelerator availability, monitoring, alerting, scheduling, access, diagnostics, and incident response across the systems our engineers rely on every day, from NVIDIA and AMD GPU clusters to TPU environments. You’ll work closely with engineering leadership and infrastructure owners to standardize how we provision, operate, debug, and scale compute across providers and hardware platforms. Your work will directly impact how fast Inferact can build, test, and improve the systems powering vLLM.
Skills and Qualifications
Minimum qualifications:
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Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, systems administration, or similar.
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Hands-on experience administering large compute clusters, HPC environments, university or research clusters, supercomputing systems, or production GPU clusters.
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Strong Linux systems administration fundamentals across networking, processes, storage, package management, shell scripting, logs, access control, and system debugging.
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Experience operating GPU servers, including driver management, GPU health monitoring, node failures, memory errors, scheduler issues, and hardware diagnostics.
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Experience with cluster scheduling and resource allocation using SLURM, Kubernetes, or equivalent tooling.
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Ability to own urgent infrastructure incidents end-to-end when compute issues are blocking engineering teams.
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Ability to automate operational workflows using Bash, Python, Ansible, Terraform, Helm, or similar tooling.
Nice to have
Preferred qualifications:
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Experience managing 1,000+ GPGPUs in production.
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Experience operating GPU compute across providers such as Lambda, CoreWeave, Crusoe, Nebius, Together, Fireworks, RunPod, or similar environments.
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Experience improving cluster utilization, reducing idle or unavailable GPU capacity, and debugging scheduling or resource contention issues.
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Familiarity with high-performance GPU networking such as InfiniBand, RoCE, NVLink / NVSwitch, RDMA, NCCL, or equivalent systems.
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Experience with storage for HPC or ML workloads, including NFS, Lustre, Ceph, distributed filesystems, or other high-throughput storage systems.
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Experience managing secure access, identity, permissions, SSH, VPNs, bastion hosts, secrets, and basic infrastructure security hygiene.
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Background in research computing, scientific computing, ML infrastructure, SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure operations for engineering-heavy teams.
Bonus points if you have:
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Managed GPU or HPC infrastructure in a university lab, national lab, research institution, AI infrastructure company, hedge fund, HFT firm, or large-scale ML platform team.
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Built monitoring, alerting, runbooks, health checks, or remediation workflows that materially reduced operational toil or incident resolution time.
•
Operated Kubernetes clusters for ML or GPU workloads at meaningful scale.
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Standardized provisioning, diagnostics, monitoring, and operating patterns across multiple compute providers.
•
Carried real operational responsibility for infrastructure used by many engineers or researchers.
Logistics
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Location: This role is based in San Francisco, California. Will consider remote in the US for exceptional candidates.
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Compensation: Depending on background, skills, and experience, the expected annual salary range for this position is $200,000 - $400,000 USD + equity.
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Visa sponsorship: We sponsor visas on a case-by-case basis.
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Benefits: Inferact offers generous health, dental, and vision benefits as well as 401(k) company match.
Legal
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