Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer

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Hyperbolic LabsAI infrastructure
Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer - Eastern US, EASTERN TIME ZONEFull-Time
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Required Skills
KubernetesGrafanaPrometheusLinuxTerraform

Requirements

  • Have deep Linux experience and be comfortable working in the CLI, including in broken environments.
  • Bring hands-on multinode GPU experience, including NCCL, InfiniBand or RoCE, collective performance debugging, topology, and placement.
  • Be able to triage GPU-node hardware faults, including XID and ECC errors, and use dmesg, lspci, and nvidia-smi.
  • Have experience provisioning and operating GPU clusters with Kubernetes, Slurm, or both.
  • Be comfortable working directly with customers, including delivering bad news and attributing faults confidently.
  • Use sound judgment to decide when to continue investigating and when to escalate.
  • Preferred: Experience with parallel filesystems such as Weka, Lustre, or GPFS and high-performance storage.
  • Preferred: Production experience with Grafana, Prometheus, or similar observability stacks.
  • Preferred: Prior forward deployed engineer, solutions architect, or technical account manager experience.
  • Preferred: Infrastructure as code experience with Terraform or Ansible, and CI for cluster provisioning.
  • Preferred: Practitioner-side exposure to model training or inference workloads.

Responsibilities

  • Build, validate, and benchmark new customer clusters, then hand them over with documentation.
  • Debug multinode and NCCL performance issues, GPU and hardware faults, driver and fabric issues, and container and scheduler problems.
  • Coordinate provider escalations involving maintenance windows, RMAs, hung nodes, and disputed fault attribution.
  • Own named customer accounts, learn their workloads, and advise them on infrastructure changes.
  • Own monitoring and alerting for customer clusters using Grafana, Prometheus, or similar tools.
  • Automate repeat work and turn escalations into runbooks for the L1 tier.
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