Supercomputing Engineer
San Francisco, CA
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San Francisco Compute
Large, low-cost pre-training clusters you can rent by the hour. Get H100s with 3.2tb/s InfiniBand, with parallel storage, fast networking, and priority support.About the Role
ML training clusters are some of the most high performance computers on the planet. Even relatively small clusters would have been in the TOP500 5 years ago. Our supercomputing team is responsible for keeping our compute clusters running smoothly, monitoring hardware health, and fixing things when they go wrong. We believe strongly in automation — code is the only reliable way to manage hardware at scale. As we scale, this will become a more data-driven role, predicting failures before they happen. We’re a small team, so you’ll be spending time talking to customers as well.
About Us
We’re the San Francisco Compute Company. We’re building the first real-time compute exchange. We think that over the next decade, thousands of startups and labs are going to be training and serving large models. They need compute to do this, and we’re building an exchange on which that compute can be traded. If we’re successful, it will be possible to scale to tens of thousands of accelerators for hours at a time without having to build your own infrastructure. This will greatly increase the number of organizations that can afford to train large models, which will make the most important technology of our lifetime accessible to more people.
About You
You’ve managed at least one GPU training cluster in the past (ideally a cluster with >1k GPU’s but not required)
You appreciate and value good documentation
You deeply understand Linux, CUDA, NCCL, and Infiniband
You enjoy creating large self-correcting systems that keep hardware humming
Some Nice to Haves
Experience with Rust (our VM orchestrator is written in Rust)
Experience with distributed storage systems (Weka, VAST, Ceph, etc.)
Experience with HPC network architectures (eBGP, fat-tree, VXLAN, MCLAG, etc.)
Experience with Linux virtualization (KVM, QEMU, libvirt, etc.)
Experience with performance optimization of machine learning kernels
Funding
We recently raised a $12 million seed round led by Jack Altman (Alt Capital) with participation from Akshay Kothari (Co-founder & COO, Notion), Christina Cacioppo (Co-founder & CEO, Vanta), Terrence Rohan (Otherwise Fund), Noah Smith, and many others.
Benefits
Unlimited office book budget
You can buy as many books for the office as you want. You’re encouraged to spend time during the workday reading!
Generous equity grant
Team members are offered a competitive salary along with equity in the company
Retirement matching
We match 401(k) plans up to 4%
Medical, dental & vision
We offer competitive medical, dental, vision insurance for employees and dependents and cover 100% of premiums
Time off
We offer unlimited paid time off as well as 10+ observed holidays
Parental leave
We offer biological, adoptive, and foster parents paid time off to spend quality time with family
Daily lunch
We cover lunch daily for employees
Visa Sponsorships
Yes, we sponsor visas and work permits.
Press
We have been written about in Bloomberg, The New York Times, The Verge, and on Hacker News.
Social
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Tags: Automation KVM Linux Machine Learning Monitoring Rust VXLAN
Perks/benefits: 401(k) matching Career development Competitive pay Equity / stock options Flex vacation Health care Insurance Medical leave Parental leave Unlimited paid time off
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