# Principal Infrastructure Engineer, AI Cluster Performance & Validation

Overview As a Principal Infrastructure Engineer, AI Cluster Performance & Validation, you will be a critical member of the AI Infrastructure Operations team, responsible for ensuring the acceptance, performance, and scalability of our cutting-edge AI and High-Performance Computing (HPC) environments. Leveraging software engineering and testing principles, you will focus on building and maintaining the control plane, tooling, and automation that supports performance and validation testing of large-scale AI clusters. Your work will directly translate into higher system availability, compute optimization and reduced operational costs. Key Responsibilities Own the technical definition of "healthy at scale." Set the architecture, roadmap, and acceptance criteria by which multi-thousand-GPU clusters are declared production-ready, and establish the performance bar (collective bandwidth, job goodput, model FLOPs utilization) that every cluster must clear before and after customer handover. Establish technology and product direction in collaboration with other tech leads, managers, and senior leadership. Run and instrument real AI workloads as a diagnostic instrument. Stand up and execute

- **Id**: 649500
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/nscale-principal-infrastructure-engineer-ai-cluster-performance-validation>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: New York, United States, San Francisco, United States, Houston, United States, Seattle, United States, Austin, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-03T20:22:44Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-21
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T08:27:17Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 72
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7124
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Data Centers & Colocation, AI Compute & Inference

## Company

- **Id**: 48155
- **Name**: Nscale
- **Domain**: nscale.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/nscale>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 87
- **Open postings**: 32
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.531
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 55
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 167000
- **Max usd**: 342000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 565

## Technologies

- **Ansible** — Optional: no
- **BGP** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Configuration Management** — Optional: no
- **DeepSpeed** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **HPC** — Optional: no
- **InfiniBand** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Megatron-LM** — Optional: no
- **NCCL** — Optional: no
- **NVLink** — Optional: no
- **Pre-training** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **SLURM** — Optional: no
- **TCP/IP** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **Grafana** — Optional: yes
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: yes
- **Prometheus** — Optional: yes
- **ROCm** — Optional: yes
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 72

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-10T20:22:42Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 10; Filings 12m: 10

## Liveness

- **Score**: 19
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 0.85
- **P active**: 0.521
- **P room**: 0.44
- **Age days**: 72
- **Expected fill days**: 55
- **Reasons**: seen:24, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

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