GPU Fabric Engineer
Vultr · United States · 3 wk ago
RemoteRemoteOTHR$125k–$135k/yrFull-time
Key Responsibilities
- Validate and troubleshoot InfiniBand and RoCE fabrics during GPU cluster bring-up and expansion
- Tune fabric performance parameters for distributed AI workloads (NCCL, MPI, collective operations)
- Monitor and manage fabrics using NVIDIA UFM (Unified Fabric Manager) for health, topology, and performance visibility
- Diagnose and resolve fabric-level issues including link errors, congestion, packet loss, and path asymmetry
- Optimize RDMA transport settings, PFC/ECN behavior, and lossless queue configuration for GPU traffic
- Validate fabric performance benchmarks and ensure line-rate throughput for AI workloads
- Collaborate with GPU Engineers to correlate fabric health with workload performance
- Collaborate with networking teams on fabric provisioning, configuration, and remediation
- Respond to fabric alerts and degradation events across production GPU clusters
- Document fabric troubleshooting procedures, tuning parameters, and validation runbooks
Qualifications
- 3–7 years of experience in network engineering, HPC fabric, or GPU infrastructure
- Hands-on experience with InfiniBand and/or RoCE fabrics in GPU cluster environments
- Experience with NVIDIA UFM for fabric management, monitoring, and diagnostics
- Strong understanding of RDMA transport, lossless Ethernet design, and congestion management (PFC, ECN, DCQCN)
- Experience with GPU cluster networking and distributed communication libraries (NCCL, MPI)
- Familiarity with GPU platforms and their interconnect requirements (NVIDIA NVLink, NVSwitch, ConnectX)
- Experience with fabric diagnostic tools (ibstat, ibqueryerrors, perfquery, etc.)
- Proficiency in Python or Bash for scripting and validation
- Basic understanding of Linux systems and server hardware
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills across network and system layers
Pay
$125,000 - $135,000 Final compensation will vary depending on years of experience, background/skill set, location, and applicable laws.