Synaptics Incorporated · 1 day ago
Sr. Staff Information Systems Engineer
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$142K/yr - $223K/yr
12+ years expSynaptics Incorporated is leading the charge in AI at the Edge, transforming user engagement with intelligent connected devices. They are seeking a Sr. Staff Information Systems Engineer to support their infrastructure and engineering environment, collaborating across various IT disciplines to optimize performance and drive technology strategies.
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Responsibilities
Architect end-to-end HPC solutions including compute clusters, high-speed networking, storage, and workload orchestration
Develop long-term platform strategy, including CPU/GPU/accelerator roadmap planning
Evaluate and integrate new technologies (processing, networking, accelerators, fabrics, storage, AI/ML)
Design scalable, fault-tolerant, and high-performance system architectures
Conduct performance modeling, simulation, and benchmarking using industry tools
Optimize system performance at the kernel, network, I/O, and application layers
Collaborate with engineering, development and research teams to improve application performance on HPC platforms
Deploy, configure, and tune large-scale Linux-based HPC clusters & Infra Core Servers
Collaborate with DevOps and platform teams to automate provisioning, monitoring, and lifecycle management
Establish operational standards, reliability practices, configuration management, and documentation
Drive capacity planning, workload optimization, and resource utilization strategies
Provide technical leadership and partner with Engineering Services to optimize and develop future technology strategies
Partner with simulation teams on workload onboarding, optimization, and adoption of best practices
Partner with vendors and technology partners to evaluate hardware and software solutions
Drive architectural excellence across the Synaptics technology environment
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree (Masters preferred) in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent
12+ years of experience designing, deploying, and managing computer infrastructures and services
Hands-on experience with NAS based storage technologies
Proven experience optimizing performance for large-scale computer, networking, and storage systems
Experience designing AI/ML clusters, heterogeneous computing environments, or exascale-class systems
Experience with cloud or hybrid HPC (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, OCI)
Experience supporting scientific, engineering, EDA, financial modeling, or simulation workloads
Minimal travel up to 10% required
Benefits
Discretionary annual performance bonus
Equity
Other benefits
Company
Synaptics Incorporated
Synaptics (Nasdaq: SYNA) is changing the way humans engage with connected devices and data, engineering exceptional experiences throughout the home, at work, in the car and on the go.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$400M2024-11-14Post Ipo Debt· $400M
2002-01-29IPO
Leadership Team
Rahul Patel
President & Chief Executive Officer, and Board Director
Lisa Bodensteiner
Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer
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