# Principal Engineer

Job Summary Role Summary HCLTech is seeking a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer to own the physical and fabric layer of client AI Factories on NVIDIA platforms. The Principal takes the solution architect's reference design to detailed design, owns site readiness and acceptance with the OEM and NVIDIA, and leads bring-up and validation of GPU clusters across the pod's engagements, handing over a scheduler-ready factory. The role also coaches FDE III and FDE II engineers and sets infrastructure standards for the bench. Key Responsibilities Key Responsibilities AI Factory Build & Deployment Deploy the AI Factory infrastructure stack (Hopper and Blackwell class compute, NVLink and NVSwitch, InfiniBand / Spectrum-X fabrics, BlueField DPUs, storage for AI) to the architect-approved NVIDIA reference design Lead bare-metal bring-up and system software: firmware, drivers, OS images, BCM / Mission Control, NVLink partitioning Configure and tune InfiniBand / RoCE fabrics and high-performance storage to the approved design Run cluster validation (NCCL, HPL, burn-in), telemetry and XID troubleshooting; isolate faults across network, firmware and scheduler layers Site Readiness & Acceptance Ch

- **Id**: 3890636
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/hcltech-principal-engineer-11>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T21:07:54Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T20:03:02Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3368
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: IT Consulting & Digital Transformation, Managed IT Services (MSP), Systems Integrators, Engineering Services

## Company

- **Id**: 225
- **Name**: HCLTech
- **Domain**: hcltech.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/hcltech>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: SuccessFactors

## Technologies

- **Ansible** — Optional: no
- **Bash** — Optional: no
- **HPC** — Optional: no
- **InfiniBand** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **NCCL** — Optional: no
- **NVLink** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SLURM** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T21:07:54Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 99
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.993
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:3, wave, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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