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AI Reliability Engineer, HPC

Microsoft AI
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hybrid senior full-time £93,500.00 - £161,800.00 per year London

First indexed 9 Oct 2026

Description

We're seeking an experienced AI Reliability Engineer to join our High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure team. You'll blend software engineering and systems engineering to keep our large-scale distributed AI infrastructure reliable and efficient.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure uptime, resiliency, and fault tolerance of HPC clusters powering MAI model training and inference.
  • Design and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging systems to provide real-time visibility into HPC systems.
  • Build automation for deployments, incident response, scaling, and failover in CPU+GPU environments.
  • Lead on-call rotations, troubleshoot production issues, and drive continuous improvements.
  • Ensure data privacy, compliance, and secure operations across model training and serving environments.
  • Partner with ML engineers and platform teams to improve developer experience and accelerate research-to-production workflows.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, container orchestration, and CI/CD pipelines for ML training or inference workloads.
  • Experience with public cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP, including infrastructure-as-code.
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, Datadog, or OpenTelemetry.
  • Programming or scripting experience in Python, Go, or Bash.
  • Experience with distributed systems, networking, storage, and high-performance computing (HPC).

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across United Kingdom is £93,500.00 - £161,800.00 per year.

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