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HPC/ML Infrastructure Engineer

Spellbrush · San Francisco or Tokyo · On-site

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About Spellbrush

magic anime pictures. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

We’re looking for an experienced HPC infrastructure engineer to lead bringup, administration, and operations on is probably the largest anime AI training cluster in the world . You’ll serve as the bridge between our researchers and the bare GPU machines, helping to make sure that SLURM jobs are running, parallel filesystems are serving, network is transmitting, and that the anime models are training.

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We’re looking for an experienced HPC infrastructure engineer to lead bringup, administration, and operations on is probably the largest anime AI training cluster in the world . You’ll serve as the bridge between our researchers and the bare GPU machines, helping to make sure that SLURM jobs are running, parallel filesystems are serving, network is transmitting, and that the anime models are training.

This probably one of the only jobs in the world where you will get to combine your love of anime and large-scale GPU systems.

Once upon a time, our team could install SLURM on a few bare metal nodes and get away with it. Now the landscape has become unbelievable complex, with SLURM deploys through Slinky on K8s, provisioning through warewulf/MAAS/ansible, filesystems through WEKA/VAST/Ceph, VPN and access through tailscale, and monitoring via the Grafana/Prometheus stack. We’re looking for someone with relevant experience up and down the stack (and maybe a papercut or two to show for it!)

Bringing up and managing cluster still requires good old linux sysadmin skills, including wrangling ldap, triaging dmesg, and setting sticky bits on directories for misbehaving users and tools.

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