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Cosmic Labs

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Posted on Jul 15, 2026

Systems Architect, HPC & Reliability

Location: In-person, San Francisco (Relocation Supported) Type: Full-time | Competitive Pay + Equity Start Date: ASAP

What You Bring

  • 15+ years working close to the hardware in large-scale HPC, AI, or cloud fleets, at the level of silicon, firmware, and the network fabric
  • Hands-on experience with device and fabric telemetry (GNMI, Redfish and BMC, NVIDIA DCGM, link-level network signals) used to diagnose or predict hardware faults
  • Experience building a prediction, anomaly detection, or reliability analysis system on real operational data, and a clear sense of where those systems break
  • Strong grounding in fault tolerance and RAS at the hardware and fabric layer
  • The ability to sit between the hardware layer and the modeling layer without losing precision in either
  • Strong software engineering habits: version control, reproducible work, testable pipelines

Bonus

  • NVIDIA GPU fleet experience and the failure surface around it: XID and SDC analysis, HBM failure characterization, NVLink behavior
  • Low-level networking depth: link-level fabric health, GNMI, large-scale interconnect (InfiniBand, NVLink, Slingshot)
  • A telecom or networking background working below the application layer
  • Firmware, BMC, or hardware bring-up experience
  • Time inside a national lab, hyperscaler, or neocloud reliability or SRE org
  • PhD in computer engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, or related
  • US person status and the ability to obtain a security clearance, a plus generally and a requirement for certain projects

How to Apply

Email the following to team@cosmiclabs.io:

Subject line: Member of Technical Staff, Systems Architecture / [Your Name]

In the body:

  • Your name
  • Why this role and why Cosmic Labs
  • What you bring technically
  • Soonest available start date
  • Education and years of experience
  • U.S. work eligibility status
  • Availability (dates and times) for a 15-minute phone call over the next seven days

Attachment: PDF resume

Applications reviewed on a rolling basis.