Hardware Systems Engineer

The role

You will test, validate and qualify hardware and firmware solutions, working with internal teams and hardware manufacturers. You will also investigate technical issues, improve validation processes and document the hardware solutions used in datacenter environments.

What you will do

• Be the point of contact and reference for the Hardware Engineering team on hardware questions
• Manage internal hardware projects with the VP Hardware Engineering
• Watch technology for hardware and firmware improvements
• Liaise with manufacturers on technical issues and improvement requests
• Evaluate and validate new hardware solutions for new Scaleway products
• Refine hardware configurations with HW R&D and HW Architect
• Help the HW Support team diagnose complex situations
• Provide technical guidelines for hardware validation software tools
• Act as consultant for Operations teams (Supply Chain, Manufacturing)
• Train teams on how hardware functions and contribute to Open Hardware and Open Source Firmware projects

Required qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of computer/server hardware from various OEM and ODM
• Knowledge of hardware management and monitoring standards (IPMI, Redfish)
• Knowledge of firmware constraints (settings, updates, security)
• Advanced knowledge of technologies and components (GPU, DPU, DIMM, CPU, storage, NICs, HBA)
• Good knowledge of Linux-based environments (grub, kernel, basic commands, terminal, scripting)
• General system administration (PXE, DHCP)
• Knowledge of the Cloud ecosystem and products
• Creativity and strong self-motivation
• Focus on industrialization and processes
• Project management
• Structured thinking, prioritizing and long-term planning
• Communication, summarizing and documentation skills, including explaining to non-technical teams

Nice to have

• Knowledge of the OpenHardware community, OCP, OpenBMC
• Knowledge of HPC/AI architectures (distributed file systems, checkpointing, interconnect topologies)
• Knowledge of network hardware
• Knowledge of standards associations (JEDEC, IEEE)
• Understanding of the benchmarking process
• Knowledge of power and cooling constraints at rack and datacenter level
• Experience in hardware at scale
• Understanding of microarchitecture and technological standards

Benefits

• Hybrid work: up to 3 days of remote work per week
• Spacious offices near public transport, most with terraces and bike parking
• Healthy meal service at headquarters and year-round breakfast at all sites
• Swile card for lunches for regional sites
• Well-being support such as gym access, daycare places and discounted caring services
• International environment with dozens of nationalities
• Internal mobility, including transfers to other Iliad Group entities

Before you apply

• The hiring process includes a 30-minute screening, a 45-minute manager interview, a 1-hour technical deep dive and a 45-minute team fit interview with an on-site meeting

About the company

Scaleway has been designing secure, sustainable cloud and AI infrastructure since 1999 and serves thousands of customers across the private and public sector. It is supported by the Iliad Group and runs data centers powered solely by renewable energy since 2017.