Technical Lead, AI Cluster Commissioning

The role

You will lead the technical commissioning of advanced AI computing platforms. You will coordinate internal teams, vendors, and partners to ensure performance, reliability, and operational readiness.

What you will do

• Lead technical commissioning of AI computing platforms.
• Provide technical oversight and leadership to execute commissioning plans.
• Coordinate work between data center infrastructure teams, internal teams, partners, and vendors.
• Guide compute, network, and storage teams through testing and benchmarking.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship during commissioning activities.
• Set technical priorities and coordinate execution across multiple workstreams.
• Triage, track, diagnose, and resolve technical issues with partners and vendors.
• Maintain and improve tools, trackers, and technical documentation.
• Identify risks, challenges, and bottlenecks to ensure on-time delivery.
• Provide regular updates to project management and leadership on progress and risks.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years in HPC/AI/hyperscale infrastructure environments, including deployment, commissioning, monitoring and diagnostics.
• Experience with large-scale cluster infrastructure including compute, networking, storage, and supporting management systems.
• Strong Linux and server fundamentals.
• Ability to debug on the machine and reason across GPU, CPU, memory, PCIe, power and cooling.
• Automation in bash, Python or similar.
• Familiarity with Ethernet fabrics, RoCE, NVLink, NVSwitch, and distributed AI workload validation.
• Hands-on with GPU diagnostics and validation such as DCGM, NCCL/collective tests, stress testing.
• Experience analysing hardware, network, and storage diagnostics and alerts.
• Experience executing cluster validation, performance benchmarking, scale testing, and acceptance testing.
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted troubleshooting, knowledge management, automation, or operational workflows.
• Clear and effective written and verbal communication in English.

Nice to have

• Production experience on large GPU systems with tight GPU-to-GPU interconnect.
• Background at an AI cloud, GPU cloud or HPC centre with involvement in system commissioning and testing.

About the company

Firmus Technologies is a company working to revolutionise the AI industry through sustainable practices and cutting-edge engineering.