Member of Technical Staff (AI Infrastructure Engineer)
Perplexity · Palo Alto, CA · 1 mo ago
On-siteInformation Technology$220k–$405k/yrFull-time
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and maintain scalable Kubernetes clusters for AI model inference and training workloads
- Manage and optimize Slurm-based HPC environments for distributed training of large language models
- Develop robust APIs and orchestration systems for both training pipelines and inference services
- Implement resource scheduling and job management systems across heterogeneous compute environments
- Benchmark system performance, diagnose bottlenecks, and implement improvements across both training and inference infrastructure
- Build monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions tailored to ML workloads running on Kubernetes and Slurm
- Respond swiftly to system outages and collaborate across teams to maintain high uptime for critical training runs and inference services
- Optimize cluster utilization and implement autoscaling strategies for dynamic workload demands
Qualifications
- Strong expertise in Kubernetes administration, including custom resource definitions, operators, and cluster management
- Hands-on experience with Slurm workload management, including job scheduling, resource allocation, and cluster optimization
- Experience with deploying and managing distributed training systems at scale
- Deep understanding of container orchestration and distributed systems architecture
- High level familiarity with LLM architecture and training processes (Multi-Head Attention, Multi/Grouped-Query, distributed training strategies)
- Experience managing GPU clusters and optimizing compute resource utilization
- Expert-level Kubernetes administration and YAML configuration management
- Proficiency with Slurm job scheduling, resource management, and cluster configuration
- Python and C++ programming with focus on systems and infrastructure automation
- Experience with ML frameworks such as PyTorch in distributed training contexts
- Strong understanding of networking, storage, and compute resource management for ML workloads
- Experience developing APIs and managing distributed systems for both batch and real-time workloads
- Solid debugging and monitoring skills with expertise in observability tools for containerized environments