Sr. Manager Development
Hungry, Humble, Honest, with Heart.
The Opportunity
Do you love building a high performance machine learning system stack on the Nutanix Cloud platform ? We work in a fast-paced startup mindset and look forward to adding self-initiated team members who like to take ownership and build large-scale data platform services. We are currently looking for experienced self-motivated individuals with expertise and passion who can lead a team in solving challenging problems in AI, distributed systems and virtualized infrastructure. If this is exciting for you, join us in building cloud native machine learning services from the ground up for Nutanix customers.
Engineering / R&D at Nutanix
The Nutanix AI team is responsible for the GPT-in-a-Box solution that includes everything needed to build AI-ready infrastructure. This includes
- The software-defined Nutanix Cloud Platform™ infrastructure supports GPU-enabled server nodes for seamless scaling of virtualized compute, storage and networking, supporting both traditional virtual machines and Kubernetes-orchestrated containers.
- Files and Objects storage to fine-tune and run a choice of GPT models
- Open source software to deploy and run AI workloads
- The management interface or standard CLI
- Support for a curated set of LLMs, including Llama2, Falcon and MPT
Your Role
- Hire/build, coach, and grow a high-performing team of talented engineers with diverse skill-sets.
- A strong leader capable of motivating the very best software engineers, as well as gaining their respect.
- Collaborate with the geo-distributed team to own and deliver projects end to end
- Communicate across functional teams and drive engineering initiatives
- Participate in architecture and technical design and drive product direction & strategy
Management Responsibilities
- Manage and grow an existing team.
- Refine and grow existing processes or develop new ones to enable smooth functioning of the engineering team
- Drive development of timely and high quality software releases
What You Will Bring
Required Technical Skills
- Strong coding experience in one or more languages: Go, Python etc.
- Strong experience in docker, kubernetes and cloud native technologies
- Strong understanding of datacenter design including compute, storage, and networking
- Familiarity with on prem, cloud and hybrid software deployment architectures
- Proven technical leadership in designing and tuning high performance system software
- Strong understanding of distributed compute and storage architectures
- Familiarity with machine learning concepts and popular frameworks (like Tensorflow, PyTorch etc)
- Experience of building full stack multi-tenant services on a virtualized infrastructure is a very strong plus.
Qualifications and Experience
- BS/ MS/PhD in Computer Science or Engineering
- 10+ Years of experience, 4+ Years of management experience(Preferably in a Cloud/AI/SaaS team)
- Proven hands-on technical management
- Experience with Agile methodologies
- Experience working in a high growth multinational company environment.
About the Team
About Your Manager:
You'll be reporting to Johnu George, a Staff Engineer at Nutanix. Johnu holds an MS degree in Computer Science from Texas A&M University, College Station and has previously worked at Tejas Networks and Cisco. Currently, he is leading ML Systems at Nutanix. Johnu is passionate about open source contributions and leads various ML communities. He is a founding member of MLCommons Storage working group and currently serves as a Kubeflow Steering Committee member.
What The Team Says:
The team is focused on solving challenging AI/ML problems while simplifying infrastructure complexity. You'll be part of a group that thrives on innovation and pushing boundaries.
How We Work:
At Nutanix, we embrace a startup mentality and encourage a self-driven mindset. Our team works with a focus on innovation and collaboration. We have a hybrid work culture, so you'll have the flexibility to work remotely while also being required to come into the office 2-3 times a week.
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