Hardware Systems Engineer

Your mission will be to test, validate and qualify hardware and firmware solutions, while working closely with our internal teams and hardware manufacturers.

You will also help investigate technical issues, improve our validation processes, and document the hardware solutions we select for our datacenter environments.

You will join a collaborative and technical team working closely with Product, Engineering and Architecture teams, as well as hardware manufacturers and ODM/OEM partners.

You will have the opportunity to work on Open Hardware projects, discover new technologies, and get hands-on with hardware. Sharing knowledge, curiosity and teamwork are key to the way we work.

• Be the point of contact and the Hardware Engineering team reference for the other teams for any hardware related question,

• Manage internal projects related to hardware in coordination with the  VP Hardware Engineering,

• Technology watch looking for any improvement with regards to Hardware and Firmware topics,

• Liaise with the different manufacturers for technical issues, improvements requests,

• Evaluate and validate the possible HW new solutions being tested for new Scaleway products,

• Interact with the HW R&D and HW Architect to refine the configurations of the possible HW solutions,

• Close relationship with the HW R&D and HW Architect,  

• Help the HW Support team with diagnosis of complex situation,

• Provide technical guidelines for the team developing HW validation software tools,

• Act as a consultant for the other teams of the Operations organization (Supply Chain, Manufacturing, …) 

• Help training all the teams on how hardware functions,

• Contribute to our involvement in the Open Hardware and Open Source Firmware projects.

Minimum qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of the computer/server hardware from the various OEM and ODM

  • Hardware management and monitoring standards (IPMI, Redfish) 

  • Firmware constraints (settings, updates, security)

  • Advanced knowledge of the various types of technology and components (GPU, DPU, DIMM, CPU, storage, NICs, HBA, …)

• Good knowledge of Linux-based environments

  • grub, kernel, basic commands, Terminal, scripting, …

  • General system administration (PXE, DHCP, …)

• Knowledge of the Cloud ecosystem and products

• Creativity and strong self-motivation

• Focus on industrialization and processes

• Project management

• Structured thinking, prioritizing, and long-term planning skills

• Communication/summarizing/documentation skills: being able to summarize all kinds of information efficiently and synthetically as well as popularization targeting non-technical teams within Scaleway

• Full professional English proficiency

Preferred qualifications

• Knowledge of OpenHardware community, OCP, OpenBMC

• Knowledge of HPC/AI architectures (distributed file systems, checkpointing,  interconnect network topologies) 

• Knowledge of the network hardware

• Knowledge of standard associations (JEDEC, IEEE)

• Understanding of the benchmarking process

• Knowledge of the power & cooling constraints at the rack and datacenter level

• Experience in the world of hardware at scale

• Understanding of µarch, technological standard