Virtualization & Orchestration Engineer
Designworks Talent14 days ago
Bellevue, WA, USASenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Design and build virtualization infrastructure for GPU-intensive AI and HPC workloads.
- Develop and operate Kubernetes-based orchestration systems for GPU cluster provisioning and workload scheduling.
- Build automated systems to allocate, scale, and reclaim GPU capacity across multiple tenants.
- Design workload placement, resource management, and cluster lifecycle solutions.
- Partner with hardware, networking, infrastructure, and AI platform teams on cluster architectures.
- Improve the reliability, security, scalability, and operational maturity of the orchestration platform.
- Build tooling and automation that simplifies infrastructure management and improves developer and customer experiences.
- Contribute to architecture, engineering standards, and platform best practices.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on production experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
- Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale infrastructure platforms.
- Experience with virtualization technologies for cloud, HPC, GPU, or distributed computing environments.
- Understanding of GPU cluster provisioning, workload scheduling, and resource management.
- Experience with Linux-based infrastructure and distributed systems concepts.
- Ability to independently own complex systems from design through production operation.
- Experience with GPU scheduling technologies such as Slurm, Kubernetes device plugins, NVIDIA GPU Operator, or similar frameworks is preferred.
- Experience supporting AI infrastructure, machine learning platforms, HPC environments, or GPU cloud providers is preferred.
- Background building multi-tenant infrastructure platforms for cloud providers or large-scale compute environments is preferred.
- Experience with infrastructure automation, Infrastructure as Code, and platform engineering practices is preferred.
- Familiarity with high-performance networking and GPU cluster architectures is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid role based in Bellevue, WA, with approximately three days per week in the office.
- Candidates elsewhere in the U.S. may apply if they are open to relocation.
- U.S.-based employees receive medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with company match, and paid holidays.
- Certain roles may be eligible for merit increases, annual bonuses, and long-term incentives.
- Work on GPU clusters, Kubernetes platforms, and large-scale distributed systems with substantial technical ownership.
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