Datacenter Infrastructure SpecialistActive$160K

The opportunity

Runpod is the AI Developer Cloud. More than one million developers, from indie researchers to teams running frontier models in production, use Runpod to experiment, train, fine-tune, deploy, and scale AI on one platform.

What you'll do

  • Hardware Validation & Benchmarking: Assist in validating new hardware, ensuring partner deployments meet Runpod’s specifications for distributed AI/ML workloads.

  • Uptime & SLA Enforcement: Monitor fleet health to identify performance degradation. You will help audit downtime and provide the technical data needed to protect customer SLAs.

  • AI-Driven Operations: We operate with an AI-first mindset, powering our operations with the technology we host. You will work with LLMs and AI agents to help automate network triage and generate dynamic runbooks for our fleet.

  • Incident Support: Coordinate technical incident communications with clear updates, acting as a steady hand that translates outages into actionable resolutions.

  • Partner Technical Support: Support the growth of our infrastructure partners

  • Professional Background: 3–5 years of experience in infrastructure operations, systems reliability, or datacenter engineering.

What they're looking for

  • Datacenter Networking: Strong proficiency in standard datacenter networking and performance troubleshooting. Exposure to RDMA, InfiniBand, or RoCE is highly preferred.
  • GPU & AI Stack: Hands-on experience with the NVIDIA Software Stack (driver installation, performance utilities) and an understanding of multi-node performance tuning.
  • Systems & Diagnostics: Solid Linux system administration skills and experience with containerization (Docker). You are comfortable performing system-level troubleshooting and performance tuning at the kernel and hardware interface layers.
  • Effective Communication: Clear written and verbal communication skills. You can explain hardware or networking issues to both technical partners and internal leadership.
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