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Operations Engineer, Supercompute - Memphis
- Southaven, +1 more: Memphis
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- Experience
- 2+ years
- Education
- A degreeor equivalent experience
- Posted
What you'll do
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RESPONSIBILITIES
- Own monitoring architecture, alerting, signal quality, and automation of monitoring across GPU and host telemetry (DCGM, Prometheus/Grafana) and facility telemetry (BMS, EPMS, DCIM, SCADA, CDU / direct liquid cooling)
- Own compute hardware change incorporation - physical, firmware, software
- Be part of 24/7 incident response, mitigation, and control authority - end to end - from customer impact back to the facility
- Own day-to-day site sustainment operations, including resolving issues impacting rack-level compute and facility infrastructure
- Disposition daily issues across both site operations (rack compute) and facility operations (power and cooling)
- Lead acceptance and deployment testing campaigns to bring new data halls fully online
- Develop production automation for new data hall bring-up, automation behind alerting and automated incident response
- Develop and maintain standard operating procedures and planning for facility and site technicians, including change / upgrade incorporation planning on both rack level and facility
- Own and document the live, changing state of data hall operation as new halls come online
- Enable Site Operations and Facility Operations technicians to do their day to day jobs more efficiently and safely to increase GPU uptime
- Create predictive and responsive automation to alerts and incidents to enable your response to be faster and more impactful
- Lead cross-functional reliability projects spanning compute, network (InfiniBand/RoCE), storage, and facility signal boundaries, including grey failures that cross those boundaries (e.g., NVLink flapping, thermal throttling, power sequencing)
- Truly root cause systemic and design failure classes across hardware and integrated facility and operations systems: turn fleet data (MTBF/AFR, repeat-RMA trends) into proactive alerting, standard responses, vendor RCA inputs, and supplier corrective actions
Requirements
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, or computer engineering, or a scientific discipline and 2+ years of experience in data center, critical facilities, power plant, or large-scale compute operations; OR 6+ years of professional experience in those environments in lieu of a degree
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Hands-on experience with at least one of: Prometheus/Grafana, NVIDIA DCGM, or industrial telemetry and controls (SCADA, BMS/BAS, EPMS, DCIM, PLCs, Modbus/BACnet).
- Experience in datacenter site reliability, systems engineering, plant operations, or large-scale production operations.
- Experience running acceptance test campaigns for integrated products.
- Experience in AI/ML infrastructure or supercomputing environments: GB200/NVL72 or H100/H200-class GPU fleets, NCCL, InfiniBand/RoCE, Slurm or Kubernetes.
- Fleet firmware and BMC management (Redfish, IPMI), including firmware release validation and staged rollouts.
- Familiarity with data center hardware and plant signals (servers, GPUs, networking, power, cooling) in addition to software telemetry.
- Proven large-scale incident command experience and calm technical leadership on a bridge, whether from an SRE/NOC bridge or a plant control room.
- Experience writing and operating playbooks, runbooks, or standard operating procedures, methods of procedure, emergency operations procedures.
- Proficiency in scripting (Python, Bash) for automation and analysis, plus general experience in at least one systems language (C, C++, Java, Go, Rust, or similar).
- Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional, cross-country, multi-disciplinary teams.
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Skills
Stack
- Python
- Java
- C++
- Go
- Rust
- Kubernetes
Working languages
English
Company
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