Staff HPC Systems Architect

Role description

Role Overview

As a Staff HPC Systems Architect, you will architect and define scalable compute platforms optimized for AI/ML, simulation, and high-throughput workloads. You will develop compute system standards and design patterns to ensure consistency, performance, and maintainability across infrastructure.

What You Will Do

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include evaluating emerging CPU, GPU, and accelerator technologies, owning architectural tradeoff decisions that impact compute density, power, cooling, and total cost. You will also collaborate with product and engineering teams to map workload requirements to compute platform capabilities across bare metal and cloud deployments.

Why It Might Be a Fit

To be successful in this role, you will need to have proven experience (7+ years) architecting large-scale 10k-100k+ GPU HPC or cloud compute platforms. You will also need to have a strong understanding of system performance tuning, resource scheduling, thermal and power optimization, and compute lifecycle management.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience architecting large-scale 10k-100k+ GPU HPC or cloud compute platforms
• Deep knowledge of CPU/GPU architectures, memory hierarchies, and accelerator topologies
• Experience designing systems around high-bandwidth, low-latency fabrics (NVLink, InfiniBand, and RoCE)
• Strong understanding of system performance tuning, resource scheduling, thermal and power optimization, and compute lifecycle management
• Comfortable working across hardware and software boundaries, especially at the intersection of compute architecture, OS behavior, and orchestration layers
• Skilled at balancing architectural tradeoffs for density, power efficiency, cooling, and performance
• Strong analytical and communication skills, with a track record of influencing technical strategy across teams
• Strong ownership and can-do attitude, self-starter who feels comfortable working in ambiguity

Benefits

• Generous cash & equity compensation
• Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
• 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
• Flexible paid time off plan