Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

First seen Sep 2, 2026 · open on Oracle Cloud as of Nov 6, 2026

$114,600–$234,600 + equityNashville, TNFull-time

Architect and deploy large-scale GPU, HPC, and AI infrastructure on OCI using Terraform, Ansible, Slurm, Kubernetes, and automation frameworks.

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5+ yearsArchitecture, Operations, and/or System Engineering
5+ yearsConsulting and interacting with customers, including architects and C-level stakeholdersPreferred

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Location: Nashville, TN
Employment type: Full-time
Pay: Pay details
US: Hiring Range in USD from: $114,600 to $234,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Engage directly with strategic customers to onboard, integrate, and optimize solutions, supporting LLM-based applications, agentic AI, and robotic AI platforms.
Build automated solutions for cluster provisioning, infrastructure as code, performance monitoring, and capacity planning.
Act as a trusted technical advisor and escalation path, troubleshooting performance and reliability issues and driving root cause analysis.
Author SME-level technical collateral and reference architectures, and partner with OCI engineering to influence product direction.

5+ years of experience in Architecture, Operations, and/or System Engineering.
Recent technical experience designing/deploying infrastructure and HPC (including GPU) or at least one major public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI).
Experience with scripting and automation using Python, Ansible, Terraform, and/or Kubernetes.
Hands-on Linux skills with Oracle Linux/RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, including system administration and shell scripting.