Principal Systems Engineer APAC
Nscale is a London-based, full-stack AI cloud and infrastructure company that provides GPU compute, managed AI services, orchestration software, data centers, and power infrastructure for AI training, fine-tuning, and inference.
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About Nscale
Nscale builds and operates vertically integrated AI infrastructure spanning software, GPU compute, networking, storage, purpose-built data centers, and power. Its active cloud platform offers self-service inference endpoints, fine-tuning, managed Kubernetes and Slurm, virtual machines, and GPU clusters.
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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will manage bare-metal compute lifecycle states, host inventory, firmware, BIOS settings, operating systems, out-of-band management, and telemetry. You will validate host networking and components, run stress tests, and operate large-scale public-cloud data planes.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Technology, or equivalent
- At least 10 years of relevant network and systems experience
- Coding experience
- Experience delivering and operating large-scale production systems with 1,000 or more server instances
- Deep understanding of operating systems, computer networks, and high-performance applications
- Proficiency in at least three programming languages
- Experience with the full software development lifecycle
- Ability to travel up to 50% of the time
- Linux systems expertise
- Experience with server and GPU hardware architecture and system management
- Experience with InfiniBand or RoCE networking
- Experience designing, developing, and operating public-cloud service data planes
- Understanding of databases, SQL, caching technologies, and system-level architecture
Responsibilities
- Manage bare-metal compute lifecycle states
- Inventory racks, hosts, and host components
- Apply and validate host firmware
- Run stress tests on host networking and components
- Read and apply BIOS settings
- Install and manage host operating systems remotely
- Manage host out-of-band management subsystems
- Read and parse host telemetry