Boson AI is a startup building large language tools for everyone to use. Our founders (Alex Smola, Mu Li), and a team of Deep Learning, Optimization, NLP, AutoML and Statistics scientists and engineers are working on high quality generative AI models for language and beyond.

About The Role
We are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer / System Administrator to help us operate our datacenter deployment in Toronto. The ideal candidate needs to have strong problem solving skills and an ability to learn new tools. Experience with Slurm, MAAS, Ceph, OPNSense, networking and related tools is a big plus. You should be comfortable performing some amount of hardware configuration.

You will have the opportunity to work with the latest NVIDIA H100 GPUs, many PB of storage, Terabit networking and hundreds of computers. You will be responsible for deploying and operating a broad range of infrastructure technologies and hardware systems.

A day in the life:

Manage private large high-end GPU clusters
Responsible for full lifecycle of physical systems including deployments of new hardware, operations, triage and troubleshooting
Configure and maintain network switches (Tomahawk TH3, Mellanox Infiniband)
Configure and maintain MAAS (metal as a service), Ceph, and Slurm
Configure and automate on-premises Linux-based systems at scale using infrastructure-as-code practices
Configure and maintain network and security tools, including VPN, VLAN, DHCP, SSO, MFA
Learn about new tools and deploy them

You might be a great fit if you have:

Strong background in system operations, including Slurm, Ansible, MAAS, Ceph, OPNsense and Kubernetes
Experience with with on-premises Data Center operations and technologies
Experience in managing a large hardware cluster
Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g. Python) and ability to write clean, maintainable code
Experience in designing, deploying, and maintaining production-grade machine learning systems at scale
Familiarity with GPU utilization for machine learning workloads and optimization techniques
Experience with managing firmware / systems updates for systems, e.g. on SuperMicro

The ability to solve problems and to learn new techniques is key.

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