AI/HPC Cluster Design Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc•Austin, TX

About The Position

We are seeking an experienced AI systems engineer to design scalable AI/HPC clusters with specific focus on compliance with customer and/or design requirements. This role involves reviewing and selecting compute, storage, networking, and power delivery components and solutions to optimize performance and reliability across global deployments. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver cutting-edge infrastructure for AI and high-performance computing workloads.

Requirements

Experience in HPC, AI systems/clusters, or data center engineering.
Strong understanding of rack and cluster design
Knowledge of GPU/CPU architectures, PCIe, UALink, InfiniBand, and Ethernet networking.
Familiarity with AI/ML frameworks and workload characteristics.
Excellent problem-solving, communication, and documentation skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience in HPC, AI infrastructure, or data center systems engineering.
Experience designing power delivery solutions for racks and data centers
Contributions to open-source HPC or AI infrastructure projects.

Responsibilities

Design scalable AI/HPC clusters including compute, storage, and networking
Evaluate and select CPUs, GPUs, accelerators, interconnects, and memory configurations for optimal cluster performance.
Design network topologies to maximize overall cluster performance
Understand the network performance needs of different types of workloads
Understand advantages and performance trade-offs of network topologies for AI/HPC clusters
Design and optimize storage solutions to maximize AI/HPC cluster performance
Understand advantages and performance trade-offs of cluster storage solutions, e.g. Lustre, Ceph, etc.
Work across multiple organizations with subject matter experts from hardware, software, network, data center, and operations teams to deliver scalable, efficient, and reliable compute infrastructure.