# Member of Technical Staff - ClusterMAX at Semi Analysis

- Company: Semi Analysis
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA; New York City, NY
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-26
- Apply by: 2026-10-14
- Apply: https://app.dover.com/apply/SemiAnalysis/25548f68-1703-4a24-9e85-881e99a9174e
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/semi-analysis-member-of-technical-staff-clustermax/

## About the role

ClusterMAX™ is the industry-standard GPU cloud rating system — 95% market coverage by volume, 84 providers rated, 209 tracked, and 140+ customer interviews behind each release. We recently published our cluster TCO and goodput framework in How Much Do GPU Clusters Really Cost? , showing that goodput expense alone swings 6–21% of total cluster TCO depending on fault-tolerance approach. We are now testing providers for ClusterMAX 3.0 with expanded benchmarks, security requirements, and analysis.

## What they're looking for

- Hands-on experience operating GPU clusters: Slurm and/or Kubernetes, InfiniBand/RoCE fabrics, distributed storage
- Strong Python and shell scripting, comfort building benchmark harnesses and CI pipelines
- Understanding of distributed training/inference failure modes — node failures, checkpointing, blast radius, recovery
- Experience similar to our Technical Consultant profile is a plus: due diligence, TCO analysis, and client-facing technical communication
- Security mindset: multi-tenant isolation, bare-metal vs virtualized trade-offs