Senior Staff AI Infrastructure Engineer
Boehringer Ingelheim3 months ago
United Kingdom (city not specified)Staff+
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve a multi-layer reference architecture spanning storage, compute, environments, and platform infrastructure.
- Set the technical direction, strategy, and roadmap for AI infrastructure in alignment with AI Enablement and research priorities.
- Partner with Data Excellence to develop the Trusted Research Environment for secure and compliant AI workloads on sensitive data.
- Work with IT to evolve enterprise infrastructure for large-scale AI, optimize service value, and design for portability.
- Establish ways of working, mentor team members, and act as a senior escalation point for complex AI infrastructure problems.
Requirements
- PhD or MSc with equivalent experience in a STEM subject.
- Extensive senior staff-level experience in infrastructure, platform, or systems engineering for compute-intensive workloads, including architecture, standards, and technical direction.
- Deep expertise in high-performance and GPU compute, storage and file systems, networking, container platforms and orchestration, environment provisioning, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Significant experience with hybrid on-premises/cloud architectures, right-sizing, cost optimization, and portability design to avoid vendor lock-in.
- Experience providing infrastructure for large-scale AI workloads, including distributed training at scale.
- Understanding of security, access control, resilience and continuity, and rigorous systems operations such as ITIL or equivalent service management.
- Strong collaboration, influencing, communication, and stakeholder mediation skills.
- Experience mentoring or technically leading engineers and setting engineering principles.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with approximately four days per week in the office.
- Employment with a company recognized as a Top Employer in the UK, with supportive people practices and HR policies.
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About Boehringer Ingelheim
Boehringer Ingelheim develops and manufactures prescription medicines for humans and animal health products, and provides biopharmaceutical contract manufacturing services. The family-owned company was founded in 1885 and is headquartered in Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany. Its portfolio spans areas such as cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, respiratory disorders, oncology, and vaccines for livestock and companion animals, with products marketed globally.