# Principal Engineer

Job Summary Job Title: Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, AI Factory (Infrastructure) - NVIDIA Ecosystem Business Unit Team: Leads the infrastructure workstream of an AI Factory FDE pod; works with the Platform and AI Software Principal and the pod's FDE III engineers Travel: travel as required to client sites and data centers; indicative 40-60% 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: fir

- **Id**: 3482543
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/hcltech-principal-engineer-9>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Santa Clara, 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**: 2026-10-29T20:33:05Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-29
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T20:03:02Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 9
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5497
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cybersecurity, Professional Services, Science & Engineering, Systems Integrators

## 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

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 127000
- **Max usd**: 257000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 1961

## Technologies

- **Ansible** — Optional: no
- **Bash** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **GitOps** — Optional: no
- **HPC** — Optional: no
- **InfiniBand** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **NCCL** — Optional: no
- **NVLink** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SLURM** — Optional: no
- **TensorRT-LLM** — Optional: no
- **Triton** — Optional: no
- **vLLM** — Optional: no
- **TensorRT** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 9

## Requirements

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-29T20:33:05Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 98
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.976
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 8
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:3, wave, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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