{"id":4108462,"url":"https://alion.io/job/torus-senior-compute-engineer","title":"Senior Compute Engineer","company":{"id":3781612,"name":"Torus","domain":"torus.co","url":"https://alion.io/company/torus-4","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Rippling","truth_index":null},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["Salt Lake City, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":150000,"max":190000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":190000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Ansible","optional":false},{"name":"Bash","optional":false},{"name":"CIS Benchmarks","optional":false},{"name":"CUDA","optional":false},{"name":"InfiniBand","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"NVLink","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Ubuntu","optional":false},{"name":"CMMC","optional":true},{"name":"Configuration Management","optional":true},{"name":"Datadog","optional":true},{"name":"Grafana","optional":true},{"name":"NERC CIP","optional":true},{"name":"Prometheus","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-11T18:06:46Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-11","last_verified_at":"2026-11-13T05:26:43Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"About Torus\nTorus is headquartered in Utah and is expanding manufacturing at our 545,000-square-foot facility in Salt Lake City called GigaOne. We arethe world’s first mesh energy infrastructure, uniting communities through resilient, sustainable, and intelligent power. We design, engineer, manufacture, install, and support our systems end-to-end, standing behind them throughout their lifecycle. Torus systems help reduce costs, lower emissions, and protect facilities from outages, while strengthening the security and reliability of the broader utility grid. Torus is committed to American manufacturing, engineering excellence, and building energy systems that last.\nTorus has raised over $267 million from investors like Magnetar, Mercado, ICONIQ and Origin Ventures. The investments are helping to accelerate deployment of modular power plants across utilities, data centers, and industrial sectors. This investor confidence reflects the strength of our team, technology as well as the scale of the problem we are solving.\nAt Torus, you will be part of something larger than a single product or technology. Your work will help build energy infrastructure that supports and strengthens our electrical grid, critical systems, industry, and communities for decades to come. We value accountability, collaboration, and clear thinking. We are looking for people who want to solve hard problems and build things that matter.\nAbout the Role\nThe Senior Compute Engineer will own the design, provisioning, and lifecycle of the compute infrastructure that powers Torus Systems. You will take GPU and CPU servers from rack to production-ready, building repeatable, secure, automated processes for bare-metal bring-up, out-of-band management, and fleet operations at scale.\nThis is a hands-on, deeply technical role for an engineer who is equally comfortable at the BMC console, in a Linux shell, and writing the automation that replaces both. You will set the standards for how we commission, configure, and maintain compute and its GPU fabric across multiple sites, and you will mentor junior engineers as the team grows.\nWho You Are\nYou build technology people can rely on, and when it breaks, you find out why. You write down what you learn so the next engineer doesn’t start from zero.\nYou ask before you push back. You find out what others know about the environment before you reject a design or change a config, and you assume good intent.\nYou say it early and directly. You flag risks and missed windows as soon as you see them, give clear feedback, and praise good work openly.\nYou build on strengths. You look for what each teammate does well and use it to cover the team’s gaps.\nYou lead with the answer. Incident updates, change requests, and runbooks open with the status and the action needed.\nYou move fast and test first. You automate repeatable work and validate before rollout.\nYou think in systems. Network, compute, software, and security decisions depend on each other, and on power and cooling at the site. You use telemetry and logs to make the call, and when a technical preference conflicts with what the customer needs, the customer wins.\nResponsibilities\nBare-metal hardware and BMC management\nConfigure and standardize BMCs (Supermicro IPMI and Redfish, or equivalent such as iDRAC or iLO): network settings, user and role management, certificates, alerting, and firmware\nDefine hardware-side provisioning standards (BIOS/UEFI settings, boot order, option ROM settings, storage and RAID configuration) and hand off to the MAAS-based provisioning platform operated by Systems Engineering\nSecure the out-of-band management plane: dedicated management networks, credential rotation, disabling unused services, and access controls\nOwn firmware lifecycle management for BIOS, BMC, CPLD, NICs, storage controllers, and GPUs, including testing and staged rollout\nGPU compute and fabric\nOwn GPU node bring-up and validation: drivers and CUDA stack, GPU and NVLink health, DCGM or equivalent diagnostics, and burn-in\nOwn the node side of the GPU fabric (InfiniBand or RoCE Ethernet, ConnectX 400G-class NICs): NIC firmware, link validation, rail-aligned cabling and port mapping, breakouts, and fabric manager integration\nValidate optics, cables, and MPO polarity against the design before nodes enter production\nWork with Network Engineering on switch-side fabric configuration and cluster-level performance validation\nPower, cooling, and physical standards\nOwn server-to-PDU outlet mapping and labeling, and define staged power-on procedures that respect branch circuit limits and inrush\nDefine power capping and load-balancing practices across PDU branches, and review electrical load before large power events\nUnderstand the thermal and liquid-cooling dependencies (CDU, chiller) of the nodes you commission, and coordinate with facilities on maintenance windows\nEstablish and enforce naming, asset-tagging, and inventory standards across sites\nCompute architecture and standards\nDefine reference builds and configuration baselines for standard and GPU/accelerated compute nodes\nEvaluate and validate server hardware, working with procurement on specs, vendor comparisons, and quote review, including the optics and cabling bill of materials\nCommissioning and quality\nDevelop and maintain commissioning checklists and acceptance tests, including burn-in, stress testing, and hardware validation\nVerify network, storage, and compute readiness before nodes enter production\nDrive root cause analysis on failed hardware and recurring provisioning issues, and work RMAs with vendors\nDefine the onboarding and offboarding procedure for nodes handed to a tenant or hosting partner, including BMC credential rotation, firmware verification, and out-of-band-only verification where a third party owns the host OS\nAutomation and fleet operations\nBuild and maintain automation (Python, Bash, Ansible, or similar) for hardware configuration, configuration drift detection, and fleet registration\nIntegrate nodes with monitoring, logging, and endpoint security tooling, including BMC sensor telemetry (IPMI and Redfish) into the observability platform and detection of wedged or flapping BMCs\nMaintain patching and update processes with minimal downtime\nSecurity and compliance\nApply hardening standards (CIS benchmarks or equivalent) to hosts and management interfaces\nSupport audit and compliance efforts against NIST and CIS-aligned frameworks through configuration evidence and documentation\nPartner with security engineering on vulnerability remediation, including firmware-level vulnerabilities\nCollaboration and leadership\nWork with network engineering on VLANs, management network design, and site turn-up\nWork with systems engineering on MAAS enlistment and commissioning, images, and telemetry integration\nMentor junior engineers and technicians, and review their commissioning work\nProduce clear runbooks, diagrams, and technical documentation\nProvide escalation support for complex hardware and provisioning incidents\nRequired Experience\nBachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience\n5+ years of experience in systems engineering, data center operations, or infrastructure engineering, with significant bare-metal server experience\nHands-on experience configuring and managing BMCs at scale (Supermicro IPMI, iDRAC, iLO, or similar), including Redfish and IPMI tooling\nHands-on experience with GPU or accelerated compute nodes: drivers, firmware, and burn-in validation\nWorking knowledge of high-speed server networking (25/100/400G, RDMA, RoCE or InfiniBand), including optics, breakouts, and cabling\nStrong Linux administration skills (RHEL, Ubuntu, or similar), including networking, storage, and troubleshooting at the command line\nFamiliarity with automated provisioning tools and methods (PXE/iPXE, cloud-init, MAAS, Foreman, Ansible, or equivalent)\nSolid understanding of server hardware: CPUs, memory, RAID/storage controllers, NICs, and firmware\nWorking knowledge of networking fundamentals relevant to compute, including VLANs, LACP/bonding, and out-of-band management networks\nProficiency in at least one scripting language (Python or Bash)\nExperience writing technical documentation, runbooks, and commissioning or acceptance procedures\nAbility to work independently, prioritize across competing tasks, and mentor less experienced teammates\nWillingness to travel within Utah, with occasional travel to remote sites\nWillingness to be part of an on-call rotation\nPreferred Experience\nExperience with InfiniBand fabric management (UFM or similar) and rail-optimized GPU cluster design\nFamiliarity with liquid-cooled systems (CDU, direct-to-chip) or high-density power distribution (switched or metered PDUs)\nExperience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management at fleet scale\nExperience with endpoint security and device management tools (EDR, MDM)\nExposure to hardware security practices: secure boot, TPM, firmware signing, and supply chain validation\nExperience operating bare-metal infrastructure for third-party tenants or hosting partners\nFamiliarity with OT/ICS or energy infrastructure environments\nKnowledge of NIST, CIS, IEC 62443, NERC CIP, CMMC and similar security frameworks\nRelevant certifications (RHCSA/RHCE, Linux Foundation, vendor server certifications)\nExperience with monitoring and observability stacks (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar)\nAdditional Details\nBackground Check All candidates are subject to a background check.\nLocation This role is a hybrid remote position based in Salt Lake City. The Compute Engineer will be expected to travel to Torus locations located in Salt Lake and Utah counties as needed.\nCompensation $150,000 - $190,000 (Note: We have the flexibility to hire at different levels, which may impact the corresponding pay range.)\nWork Authorization Applicants must already have the legal authorization to work in the US without requiring any employer sponsorship.\nPhysical Requirements\nRegularly operates a computer and other peripheral office equipment such as a printer or mouse.\nAbility to communicate information so others can understand. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations.\nMust report to work reliably and with the ability to use full and unimpaired skills and judgment to safely execute your job.\nProficiency in reading, writing, and speaking English required.\nWhen on the production floor, required to don personal protective equipment to include, but not limited to ear protection, gloves, eye protection and/or safety helmet.\nWhen on the production floor, ability to observe, detect and respond to audible and visual machine malfunction warnings.\nAbility to lift and install servers using a server lift or team lift, and to push and pull loaded carts and racks.\nAbility to stand, bend, and kneel for extended periods in data center environments with elevated noise and varying temperatures.\nAbility to work around energized power distribution equipment, following required electrical safety procedures and training.\nAbility to ascend ladders and work at heights. \nAbility to work outside normal business hours for maintenance windows and power events.\nAbility to participate in an on-call rotation, including responding to alerts outside business hours.\nAbility to travel to Torus sites in Salt Lake and Utah counties and occasionally to remote sites.\nOur Perks & Benefits\nBenefits eligibility is based on employment status.\nFinancial\nEmployee Rewards Package including equity\n401(k) Retirement Savings Plan\nTorus paid life and AD&D Insurance with options to purchase additional coverage\nVoluntary short- and long-term disability insurance\nHealth & Wellness\nHealth Benefits Package: Choice between traditional PPO or HSA-eligible medical plans with Torus covering 50% of medical premiums; 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