Principal AI Systems Engineer
Hut 8 is an energy infrastructure platform that develops and operates power, digital infrastructure, and compute assets. Its platform supports energy-intensive technologies, including AI and Bitcoin mining.
Funding history
About Hut 8
Hut 8 develops, commercializes, and operates an integrated portfolio of power, digital infrastructure, and compute assets. It manages energy assets such as powered land, interconnects, substations, and switchyards; operates purpose-built facilities for energy-intensive applications; and deploys specialized hardware for technologies including AI and Bitcoin mining.
Skills
About the Role
You will design, deploy, integrate, and operate the systems that support large-scale AI compute clusters. You will manage servers, Linux, virtualization, storage, identity, security, and automation platforms; validate production readiness; and provide Tier 3 troubleshooting and reliability improvements.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience
- 10+ years of hands-on experience engineering and operating enterprise, cloud, HPC, or large-scale data center infrastructure
- Expert-level Linux systems administration, troubleshooting, automation, and infrastructure integration experience
- Experience with enterprise x86 platforms, virtualization technologies, and automated provisioning
- Experience deploying and supporting high-performance or distributed storage platforms
- Understanding of DNS, DHCP, IPAM, identity management, SSO, RBAC, and core infrastructure services
- Experience with Python, Bash, Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent automation technologies
- Familiarity with security infrastructure, compliance, monitoring, and enterprise authentication systems
- Ability to travel to data centers
- Ability to support critical incidents or maintenance outside regular business hours
Responsibilities
- Lead deployment and configuration of x86 servers, Linux operating systems, virtualization platforms, and infrastructure services
- Design, deploy, and manage virtualized infrastructure
- Implement automated bare-metal provisioning, imaging, firmware management, and configuration workflows
- Deploy DNS, DHCP, NTP, IPAM, and DCIM platforms
- Establish standardized configurations and scalable deployment procedures
- Deploy, configure, and optimize high-performance storage platforms
- Implement and manage file, object, and block storage services
- Validate storage availability, performance, capacity, resilience, and GPU environment integration
- Troubleshoot storage performance, connectivity, filesystem, and distributed storage issues
- Deploy and maintain identity and access management services
- Integrate security, compliance, logging, and audit infrastructure
- Implement infrastructure automation and infrastructure-as-code solutions
- Lead integration testing and operational acceptance
- Provide Tier 3 escalation, root-cause analysis, and corrective action planning
- Develop diagnostic tooling, automation, runbooks, and monitoring standards