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We bring together the best engineering talent working with the most advanced technology platforms, including Google Cloud and Salesforce, to help clients drive action and impact through data and insights. We are committed to being a place where the best people choose to work so they can apply their engineering and technology expertise to envision what is next for how data and platforms can change the world for the better. We are dedicated to learning, thrive on solving tough problems, and continually innovate to achieve fast, effective results. If this describes you, we want you on our team.\nWant to learn more about life at Egen? Check out these resources in addition to the job description.\nMeet Egen\nLife at Egen\nCulture and Values at Egen\nCareer Development at Egen\nBenefits at Egen\nAbout the opportunity\nWe're looking for an engineer who is equally at home running a GPU training platform and the large-scale model training that runs on it. You'll be embedded with a healthcare and life-sciences AI client that trains foundation models on a large GKE-based H200 and GB200 cluster. The client is reorganizing so that its foundation-model platform and its agent platform teams work more closely together.\nThe role centres on the training stack and the scientists who use it. Solid infrastructure knowledge and experience are required, but the client already has strong SRE and infrastructure capacity, so running the cluster isn't the focus: you'll partner with that team and understand the training workloads well enough to tune, benchmark, and debug them end to end. 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