AI/HPC Data Center Rack Design Engineer

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THE ROLE:  

AMD's Global Cluster Engineering group is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Rack Design Engineer to design detailed rack layouts for high-performance computing clusters optimized for AI workloads using AMD Instinct GPUs and Epyc CPUs. This role will be responsible for creating design documents, customer collateral, and other reference documents.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Rack & Cluster Design

• Design scalable AI/HPC data center rack layouts including compute, storage, networking, power delivery and cooling
• Translate high level requirements and architecture input into detailed rack designs
• Design leading-edge thermal and power delivery for high-density deployments

Network

• Design intra-rack and rack-to-rack network connections to maximize overall cluster performance
• Translate network architecture requirements and input into rack-level designs
• Understand the network performance needs of different types of workloads
• Understand advantages and performance trade-offs of network topologies for AI/HPC clusters

Power

• Design rack-level and data center power delivery infrastructure
• Define power budgets, redundancy schemes, and fault tolerance mechanisms
• Understand differences in power delivery and regulatory requirements in global locations, e.g. U.S., EMEA, Asia and other countries

Storage

• Translate storage architecture requirements and input into rack-level designs
• Design and optimize storage solutions to maximize AI/HPC cluster performance
• Understand advantages and performance trade-offs of cluster storage solutions, e.g. Lustre, Ceph, etc.

Collaboration

• Work across multiple organizations with subject matter experts from hardware, software, network, data center, and operations teams to deliver scalable, efficient, and reliable compute infrastructure.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:  

• Extensive experience in rack and/or data center design, HPC, AI infrastructure, or data center systems engineering
• Experience with liquid cooling or advanced thermal management
• Experience with rack level power distribution

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: 

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent 

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