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As part of the AI technology revolution, our teams design, build, deploy, and manage AI factories for enterprises, sovereign AI initiatives, and neocloud providers worldwide.\nHeadquartered in Silicon Valley, California, Penguin Solutions operates globally through a network of R&D, manufacturing, and sales locations. For nearly three decades, we have operated at the intersection of memory and AI/HPC infrastructure. That engineering expertise positions us to power the next generation of AI workloads, from training to inference and agentic AI at scale.\nPenguin Solutions brings together differentiated infrastructure software, advanced memory, compute systems, end-to-end services, and industry-leading partner solutions in a full-stack AI factory platform designed to help customers deploy and scale AI workloads with speed and precision.\nAt Penguin Solutions, we value ideas over hierarchy and believe in servant leadership, where leaders enable teams to do their best work. 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development practices across the engineering organization, including the effective use of AI coding assistants and agentic development tools for design, implementation, testing, code review, debugging, documentation, and developer productivity, while establishing appropriate quality, security, and governance practices.\nDrive continuous improvement in developer experience and engineering productivity through modern development environments, automation, AI-assisted workflows, and measurable engineering practices.\nIdentify dependencies and risks across engineering teams and drive alignment and resolution across organizational boundaries.\nCommunicate engineering strategy, execution status, technical trade-offs, risks, and outcomes effectively to senior engineering and business leadership.\nCollaborate closely with globally distributed teams while continuing to build ClusterWareAI engineering capability and technical expertise in Bangalore.\nEvaluate and adopt AI-assisted software 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