GPU Cluster Infrastructure Engineer
Beam is an AI-native serverless cloud platform for GPU inference, task queues, and secure sandboxes.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
Funding history
About Beam
Smartshare, Inc. operates Beam, a developer platform for running AI and ML workloads—including inference endpoints, agents, task queues, and sandboxes—on CPUs and GPUs without managing underlying infrastructure.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will review GPU cluster designs and bills of materials, lead hardware acceptance testing, bring up InfiniBand fabric, and validate high-performance storage. You will build secure out-of-band management and firmware baselines, integrate telemetry and health checks, document operational procedures, and provide post-launch escalation support.
Requirements
- Build and operate NVIDIA HGX or DGX clusters in production at a GPU cloud, HPC center, or AI lab
- Have hands-on InfiniBand experience, including subnet management, UFM, fabric bring-up, and degraded-link and optics diagnosis
- Have experience with NDR or newer InfiniBand
- Perform GPU node bring-up and burn-in, including firmware, BMC/Redfish, DCGM, NCCL testing, PXE, imaging, and XID error triage
- Have parallel storage experience with WEKA, VAST, GPFS, Lustre, or similar
- Work effectively both on the data center floor and remotely, including directing colo remote hands
- Troubleshoot across hardware, fabric, and software and communicate clearly
- Be a US citizen or hold a US visa
Responsibilities
- Review cluster designs and bills of materials across compute, networking, and storage
- Lead hardware acceptance testing, including cabling, optics, InfiniBand fabric bring-up, burn-in, and vendor deliverables
- Stand up and validate high-performance storage with vendor teams
- Build out-of-band management and firmware baselines and secure the management plane
- Integrate hardware, fabric, and storage telemetry into the observability stack
- Create alerting and automated health checks
- Write runbooks, as-builts, and remote-hands procedures
- Provide escalation support after go-live and help ramp up the team
Benefits
- Meaningful equity
- Health, dental, and vision coverage with 90% coverage for employees and 50% for dependents
- Opportunities to participate in cloud native community events
- Fitness stipend
- Learning budget
