Job Title: AI/HPC System Engineer
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract AI/HPC System Engineer with our client located in San Jose, CA.
Job Description:- We are hiring an AI/HPC System Engineer to build and operate the compute infrastructure supporting our HPC and AI development workloads.
- This role deploys, automates, and maintains GPU clusters across on-premise and cloud environments, delivering reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient compute for engineering and R&D teams.
Job Responsibilities:- GPU/HPC infrastructure: Build, configure, and operate GPU and HPC clusters across compute, storage, and networking; support capacity planning, performance tuning, and optimization for AI training, inference, and compute-intensive workloads
- Hybrid cloud infrastructure: Deploy and maintain compute environments spanning on-premise and public cloud, and contribute to modernization and scaling initiatives for HPC/AI infrastructure
- Automation and observability: Implement infrastructure-as-code, provisioning automation, monitoring, and alerting, and drive improvements in resource utilization and efficiency
- AI platform support: Deploy, integrate, and support LLM APIs, coding assistants, and AI/agent platforms used by internal engineering teams
- Operations and collaboration: Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure issues, document standards and runbooks, and work with relevant stakeholders to support day-to-day IT operations
Job Qualifications:- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in IT infrastructure, cloud, platform engineering, or HPC
- Hands-on experience with Linux-based infrastructure and public cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Experience deploying or operating GPU/HPC environments, including workload scheduling or orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or Slurm
- Experience with infrastructure automation, monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance optimization
- Solid understanding of compute, storage, networking, and container technologies; experience with AI/ML infrastructure or workloads is a plus
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work across engineering and IT teams
Job Details:- Job Type: Contract
- Pay Range: $80-$90/hr.
- Location: San Jose, CA (Onsite).
Benefits Package: Protingent offers competitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-tax commuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO), and an administered 401k plan.
About Protingent: Protingent is an
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