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Institute of Foundation Models

HPC Engineer

Sunnyvale, California, United States

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Location
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Work
On-site
Employment
Full-time
Level
Not stated
Function
Engineering
Pay
$150K – $300K a year
Posted
5 months ago

About the role

About MBZUAI

The Institute for Foundation Models (IFM) operates some of the world's largest AI supercomputing environments.

Position Summary

This role provides operational coverage during Abu Dhabi overnight hours and serves as a primary point of contact for infrastructure monitoring, incident triage, researcher support, and production operations.

Responsibilities

  • Monitor health, performance, and availability of large-scale GPU clusters.
  • Respond to incidents and perform first-level triage.
  • Support researchers and troubleshoot job failures.
  • Execute operational runbooks and recovery procedures.
  • Validate cluster deployments, upgrades, and maintenance activities.
  • Track infrastructure utilization and operational metrics.
  • Develop automation and monitoring tools.
  • Contribute to documentation and reporting.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or related disciplines.

Experience

  • 2+ years in Linux systems administration, SRE, DevOps, cloud operations, HPC, or infrastructure operations.
  • Strong Linux troubleshooting skills.
  • Experience with scripting using Python or Bash.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Slurm.
  • GPU infrastructure.
  • AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or similar tools.
  • Containers and Kubernetes.
  • AI/ML infrastructure exposure.
  • Research computing environments.

Compensation

$150,000 – $300,000/year + discretionary performance bonus + benefits

The posted salary range represents the company’s good faith estimate of the base compensation for this position upon hire. The actual base compensation offered may vary within this range depending on individual qualifications, including but not limited to relevant skills, experience, education, certifications, and specific business needs. In addition to base salary, total compensation includes an annual discretionary performance bonus and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits Include

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
  • Bonus
  • 401K Plan
  • Generous paid time off, sick leave and holidays
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Life insurance and disability

Source

Posted by Institute of Foundation Models on their own hiring page, jobs.lever.co. OptiTalent shows it as published, read 07 Nov 2026 01:05 UTC; the original is the reference.

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