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Schmidt Sciences

Solutions Architect, Scientific GPU Compute

AI summary of the role

Schmidt Sciences seeks a Solutions Architect to serve as the primary technical liaison between funded researchers and HPC/GPU compute infrastructure, advising on compute needs and leading onboarding across scientific disciplines.

What you’ll do

  • Serve as technical and strategic advisor to Schmidt leadership and principal investigators across scientific disciplines.
  • Conduct deep-dive technical consultations to translate scientific goals into GPU, AI/ML, HPC, and cloud requirements.
  • Lead end-to-end onboarding of research teams onto Schmidt Sciences compute infrastructure and provide training.
  • Act as a 'Proposal Concierge' to align research proposals with available compute resources.

What you’ll bring

  • Post-graduate degree in a technical field (e.g., computer science, biology, climate, astrophysics).
  • 8+ years combined experience in AI/ML infrastructure and research-facing technical advisory.
  • Hands-on experience with Slurm and Kubernetes for cluster workload management.
  • Track record of accelerating time from grant approval to first result for computationally intensive projects.

Technologies

GPU · HPC · AI/ML · Slurm · Kubernetes · NVIDIA Dynamo · TensorFlow Serving · Ray · cloud · data center

About Schmidt Sciences

Funds and builds high-risk science and technology programs for researchers across AI, space, biosciences, climate and scientific infrastructure.

Bootstrapped · 50–100 people

Source and classification

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Schmidt Sciences engagements, such as the Virtual Institute for Scientific Software (VISS), which seeks to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery through the support and development of high-quality, community-oriented scientific software. These philanthropic efforts support experienced engineers who are tasked with building open-source infrastructure and applications for multi-disciplinary, high-performance, at-scale scientific discovery. The Role We are seeking a technical advisor to bridge the gap between cutting-edge scientific research and high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure. In this role, you will serve as the primary strategic liaison for Schmidt Sciences-funded researchers globally, working across all scientific disciplines—including climate, synthetic biology, astrophysics, AI & advanced computing—to accelerate discovery through advanced compute resources. You
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