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The organization is developing a comprehensive AI infrastructure, platform, and services portfolio that supports the full spectrum of AI workloads-including large-scale compute, model training, fine-tuning, inference, and emerging agentic AI applications.\nBacked by significant long-term investment, the company combines the speed, ownership, and innovation of a startup with the stability and resources of an established parent organization. Engineering teams are intentionally lean, highly collaborative, and AI-native, leveraging modern automation and tooling to build infrastructure capable of supporting the industry's most demanding AI workloads.\nWe're seeking Virtualization & Orchestration Engineers to build the platform layer that enables customers to reliably consume GPU compute at scale. This team is responsible for designing and operating the virtualization, Kubernetes, provisioning, and orchestration systems that power large-scale AI workloads across next-generation data center infrastructure.\nThe Opportunity\nThis is a foundational engineering role within the company's largest infrastructure engineering organization. You'll help design and build the systems that make GPU capacity available, scalable, secure, and reliable across a multi-tenant AI cloud platform.\nYou'll work at the intersection of virtualization, Kubernetes, distributed systems, GPU infrastructure, and high-performance computing, solving complex challenges around workload scheduling, resource allocation, cluster management, and infrastructure automation.\nThis opportunity is ideal for engineers who enjoy building large-scale platforms from the ground up and owning critical infrastructure systems end-to-end.\nWhat You'll Do\nDesign and build virtualization infrastructure supporting GPU-intensive AI and HPC workloads.\n\nDevelop and operate Kubernetes-based orchestration systems for GPU cluster provisioning and workload scheduling.\n\nBuild automated provisioning systems that enable GPU capacity to be allocated, scaled, and reclaimed efficiently across multiple tenants.\n\nDesign solutions for workload placement, resource management, and cluster lifecycle operations.\n\nPartner closely with hardware, networking, infrastructure, and AI platform teams to ensure orchestration systems align with real-world cluster architectures and constraints.\n\nImprove the reliability, security, scalability, and operational maturity of the orchestration platform.\n\nBuild tooling and automation that simplifies infrastructure management and improves developer and customer experiences.\n\nContribute to architectural decisions, engineering standards, and best practices as the platform evolves.\n\nWhat We're Looking For\nStrong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration in production environments.\n\nExperience designing, building, and operating large-scale infrastructure platforms.\n\nBackground with virtualization technologies supporting cloud, HPC, GPU, or distributed computing environments.\n\nUnderstanding of GPU cluster provisioning, workload scheduling, and resource management.\n\nExperience with Linux-based infrastructure and distributed systems concepts.\n\nAbility to independently own complex systems from design through production operation.\n\nComfortable working in a fast-moving environment where architecture and processes are being established.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with GPU scheduling technologies such as Slurm, Kubernetes device plugins, NVIDIA GPU Operator, or similar frameworks.\n\nExperience supporting AI infrastructure, machine learning platforms, HPC environments, or GPU cloud providers.\n\nBackground building multi-tenant infrastructure platforms for cloud providers or large-scale compute environments.\n\nExperience with infrastructure automation, Infrastructure as Code, and platform engineering practices.\n\nFamiliarity with high-performance networking and GPU cluster architectures.\n\nCompensation\nCompetitive base pay for Bellevue market\n\nCertain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases, annual bonus, and long term incentives. 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