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title: Principal/Staff HPC Network Engineer
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| **Company** | San Francisco Compute Company |
| **Location** | San Francisco, CA |
| **Salary** | $250K/yr - $280K/yr |
| **Type** | Full Time |
| **Posted** | Nov 04, 2026 |

## Is this job real?

**Ghost job check:** A · Low risk. Probably a real opening.

## Visa sponsorship

- **H-1B:** San Francisco Compute Company sponsors H-1B visas. It filed 2 H-1B petitions (FY2026 Q1 – FY2026 Q4).
- **E-Verify:** No E-Verify enrollment on record for San Francisco Compute Company.

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## Description

# About San Francisco Compute

San Francisco Compute (SFC) exists to give ambitious teams large scale supercomputers without taking on a catastrophic balance sheet risk. We are building the next generation of AI infrastructure, making large-scale GPU computing more accessible, flexible, and financially sustainable.

Unlike traditional GPU cloud providers, SFC combines supercomputer development and operations with an innovative compute marketplace, giving customers the flexibility to scale without the risks of rigid, long-term contracts.

We are a fast-growing team of ambitious, technically driven people working to shape the future of AI infrastructure. Our leadership team brings deep experience from Lambda, Crusoe, AWS, DigitalOcean, Hut 8, and Voltage Park, with a track record of deploying 8GW of data center capacity and hundreds of thousands of GPUs.

There has never been a more critical moment in history, and it is up to us to shape it on behalf of those who come after us. If you're excited by complex challenges, bold ideas, and meaningful impact, we'd love to meet you.

## **About the Role**

GPU clusters are some of the most performant computers on the planet. Even smaller clusters by today’s standards would have ranked in the [TOP500](https://top500.org) five years ago. Our infrastructure team is responsible for architecting and deploying new clusters around the world and keeping them running smoothly. You’ll participate in on-call rotation, fix issues when they arise, and lean into automation to enable deployments at scale. We’re a small but ambitious team so you’ll be an early contributor helping to shape culture, mentor junior engineers, and learn from our customers.

## **About You**

- You will have 10+ years of experience with hands-on management or architecture with network for at least one GPU cluster in the past (ideally a cluster with >1k GPU’s but not required)

- You deeply understand the fundamentals of Ethernet (RoCEv2) and/or InfiniBand networks in CLOS/fat-tree topologies

- You have built HPC network architectures (eBGP, fat-tree, VXLAN, MCLAG, etc.)

- The idea of implementing zero-touch provisioning for a large multi-layer network excites you (you embrace automation)

- You appreciate, value and generate good documentation

- You have the ability and willingness to mentor junior engineers

- You’re open to coming in to our San Francisco office 3-4 days per week

## **Some Nice to Haves**

- You understand data center concepts including power, cooling and how to engage with colo providers

- You have experience with Linux systems administration including managing kernel drivers and tuning the network stack

- You have experience with Linux virtualization (KVM, QEMU, libvirt, etc.)

- You’ve had exposure to containers and Kubernetes operators

# **Benefits**

## Generous equity grant

Team members are offered a competitive salary along with equity in the company

## Retirement matching

We match 401(k) plans up to 4%

## Medical, dental & vision

We offer highly competitive medical, dental, vision insurance for employees and dependents.

## Time off

We offer unlimited paid time off as well as 10+ observed holidays

## Parental leave

We offer biological, adoptive, and foster parents paid time off to spend quality time with family

## Daily lunch

We cover lunch daily for employees

## Unlimited office book budget

You can buy as many books for the office as you want

The San Francisco Compute Company is committed to maintaining a workplace free from discrimination and harassment.

We make employment decisions based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, belief, national origin, social or ethical origin, age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, HIV status, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status including pregnancy, or any other status protected by law.

We welcome the opportunity to consider qualified applicants with prior arrest or conviction records. Our commitment to diversity includes hiring talented individuals regardless of their criminal history, in accordance with local, state, and federal laws, including San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance and California’s ban-the-box laws.
## Skills

- High-Performance Computing
- Medical History Taking
- Common Lisp Object System CLOS
- System Administration
- InfiniBand
- Ethernet
- IT Provisioning
- Military Experience
- CaseWare International IDEA
- Automation
- VXLAN
- Data Centers
- Kubernetes
- GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)
- QEMU
- Kernel-based Virtual Machine (Kvm)
- Linux
- GPU Cluster Management
- Virtualization
## Benefits

- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Paid Time Off (Pto)
- 401(k) Plans
- Employee Stock Options (ESOs)

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