Senior Software Engineer HPC & Low-Level Systems
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Job Location:
Palo Alto, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
7 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About Clockwork Systems
Software Driven Fabrics to increase GPU cluster utilization
Clockwork Systems was founded by Stanford researchers and veteran systems engineers who share a vision for redefining the foundations of distributed computing. As AI workloads grow increasingly complex traditional infrastructure struggles to meet the demands of performance reliability and precise coordination. Clockwork is pioneering a software-driven approach to AI fabrics by delivering cross-stack observability to catch and quickly resolve problems workload fault tolerance to keep jobs running through failures and performance acceleration that dynamically routes and paces traffic to avoid congestion.
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What you will do
Use your knowledge and experience to lead/contribute directly to the design and build of high performance reliable and scalable systems.
You bring
- At least 5 years of experience with C/C systems programming
- Deep knowledge of Linux internals (e.g. system calls memory management kernel modules)
- Strong foundation in concurrent programming and synchronization techniques
- Strong understanding of the TCP/IP stack socket programming and low-latency networking (e.g. RDMA DPDK XDP)
- Strong understanding of memory hierarchy CPU caches multi-core architectures and GPUs
- Strong skills in systems design performance analysis and low-level debugging
Nice to Have
- Contributions to open-source HPC libraries or Linux kernel subsystems
- Experience with performance tuning of large-scale HPC clusters
- Experience with MPI RPC frameworks or distributed runtimes
- Experience with NCCL CUDA and GPU Kernels
- Knowledge of RDMA APIs (e.g. libibverbs) and transport semantics
- Experience with NIC drivers or NIC architecture
Enjoy
- Challenging projects.
- Competitive compensation.
- A great benefits package.
- A friendly and inclusive workplace culture.
- Catered lunches.
- Working in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Clockwork Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building world-class teams by welcoming bright passionate individuals from all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color ancestry religion age sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin disability or protected veteran status. We believe diversity drives innovation and we grow stronger together.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Academics
- Hardware & Networking
- ASP.NET
- Business Operations
- Barista
- ERP
