Location: Bethesda, MD
Category: Systems Engineer
Travel Required: No
Remote Type: Onsite
Clearance: Top Secret/SCI
Sunayu, LLC is looking for a highly skilled Systems Engineer with deep expertise in operating systems, hardware, GPU, and high-speed networking. In this role, you will design, develop, and optimize GPU clusters that power enterprise AI for the mission customers.
This is a 100% on-site position. All work must be performed at the customer site in Bethesda at the Intelligence Community Campus.
Primary Responsibilities
- GPU Cluster Engineering: Design, configure, and maintain GPU Clusters. Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to define and optimize architectures, ensuring they meet performance, power efficiency, and feature requirements.
- Operating System Integration: Work closely with AI/ML engineers to ensure smooth GPU integration with Linux-based systems. Optimize GPU drivers for compatibility, reliability, and performance. Provide regular maintenance and updates.
- Performance Optimization: Analyze GPU performance, identify bottlenecks, and develop strategies to improve efficiency across hardware and software layers.
- Tooling and Automation: Build and maintain debugging tools, profiling utilities, and performance analysis software for Linux environments. Leverage scripting and configuration tools such as Bash, Python, Ansible, Puppet, and Salt.
- Compliance & Documentation: Maintain technical documentation, architectural specifications, and Linux best practices. Support ATO (Authority to Operate) and ensure compliance with federal security standards.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field with at least 12 years of related technical experience. Additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- 10+ years of relevant systems engineering experience
- Experience in managing NVIDIA GPU data center platforms. (DGX, HGX, H200, H100, L4s).
- Knowledge of enterprise server components (storage/network controllers, HBA, SSDs).
- Strong expertise with Linux distributions. (RHEL, Ubuntu, Oracle, and Rocky).
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to collaborate within a team.
- Candidate must, at a minimum, meet DoD 8140/8570- IAT Level II certification requirements (currently Security+ CE, CCNA-Security, GICSP, GSEC, or SSCP along with an appropriate computing environment (CE) certification). An IAT Level III certification would also be acceptable (CASP+, CCNP Security, CISA, CISSP, GCED, GCIH, CCSP).
Clearance
- Due to the nature of the government contracts we support, US Citizenship is required.
- TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph required or a TS/SCI and willingness to obtain a Polygraph prior to starting.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Kubernetes cluster management and AI/ML workflow orchestration (Argo, Airflow, and Kubeflow).
- Familiarity with GPU virtualization and cloud computing.
- Experience with Prometheus/Grafana for monitoring.
- Knowledge of distributed resource scheduling systems (Slurm (preferred), LSF, etc.).
Top Skills
What We Do
Sunayu is the catalytic agent of engineering change helping company’s, both large and small mature and evolve their technological footprint to resolve their most complex and enduring obstacles.
We focus on a DevOps culture to implement and enhance infrastructure as code with specialties in cyber security and big data development. This methodology allows us to provide world class service to all of our customers. We foster a culture of innovation, hard teamwork, perseverance, balance and family.
Sunayu delivers innovative creativity using bleeding edge technology. We will re-envision and remodel your infrastructure by focusing on automation, deployment, system engineering, analytics development, configuration management, and information security.
