Member of Technical Staff - Bare Metal & Fleet Provisioning
Prime Intellect2 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$150k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build automated discovery, network boot, OS imaging, and configuration workflows for GPU servers.
- Automate BIOS, BMC, NIC, GPU driver, and firmware configuration with staged rollouts and recovery paths.
- Develop hardware inventory and lifecycle services tracking machine identity, configuration, health, and readiness.
- Create GPU, memory, storage, and interconnect acceptance tests and burn-in workflows.
- Integrate provisioning and health checks with SLURM, Kubernetes, and compute allocation systems.
- Build observability, quarantine, repair, and re-provisioning workflows and partner with datacenter teams on hardware failures.
- Implement secure credential handling, tenant isolation, and data sanitization across the server lifecycle.
- Collaborate with hardware, networking, platform, engineering, and customer teams on large-scale GPU infrastructure deployments.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience operating Linux servers or building bare-metal infrastructure automation in production.
- Hands-on experience with PXE/iPXE, DHCP, image provisioning, and out-of-band management such as Redfish or IPMI.
- Strong software engineering and debugging skills in Python, Go, or a comparable language, plus Bash.
- Experience designing reliable automation that handles partial failures, retries, and configuration drift.
- Ability to own operational incidents and collaborate across hardware, networking, and platform teams.
- Knowledge of Linux boot, systemd, kernel and driver troubleshooting, and OS image management.
- Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible and Terraform.
- Knowledge of GPU server diagnostics, PCIe topology, BMC telemetry, firmware compatibility, networking fundamentals, metrics, logs, alerting, and auditable configuration management.
- Preferred experience with large NVIDIA GPU fleets, DGX/HGX platforms, heterogeneous server vendors, MAAS, Ironic, Tinkerbell, Kubernetes or SLURM node lifecycle integrations, hardware qualification, automated burn-in, fleet health scoring, or open-source infrastructure tooling.
Benefits
- Equity incentives are included in addition to cash compensation.
- The role involves direct collaboration with customers and engineering teams on large-scale AI infrastructure deployments.
About Prime Intellect
Prime Intellect builds a full-stack platform for training frontier AI models, giving enterprises access to distributed compute and agentic training infrastructure to develop their own systems. The company operates as a platform and open research lab, with customers leveraging its infrastructure rather than building it in-house. Headquartered in San Francisco and privately held, it has raised a Series A round backed by investors including Founders Fund and NVIDIA.