Principal Solutions Architect, AI Data Infrastructure at Firmus · Trevo

Requirements

You’ll bring deep, vendor-agnostic expertise across the AI data path, with hands-on experience of one or more leading high-performance storage and memory platforms—systems in the class of WEKA, VAST Data, DDN, or Dell (PowerScale/PowerFlex)—understanding the underlying principles well enough that the specific brand is secondary. You’re fluent in NVMe and NVMe-oF, parallel and software-defined storage, object and file systems, and the low-latency network fabrics (RDMA, RoCEv2, InfiniBand) that link data to GPUs, and you track next-generation memory directions such as CXL, memory disaggregation, and KV-cache optimisation for LLM workloads.
Just as important is benchmarking discipline – you can design and run workload-driven evaluations across bare-metal, virtualised, and containerised environments and translate the numbers into architecture and business cases. You’ve done this at scale, integrating storage and memory into GPU clusters (DGX/HGX and similar) and reasoning about the CAPEX, server-count, and power trade-offs that come with it. Typically this comes with 10+ years in storage, memory, HPC, or AI infrastructure roles.
Communication rounds it out. You can advise a C-level customer, author a clear reference architecture or whitepaper, and mentor engineers with equal ease, and you’re comfortable in high-ambiguity environments where the right architecture has to be created rather than copied.
Key Competencies
You bring deep command of the full AI data path – storage, memory, and cache – and back it with rigorous, workload-driven benchmarking. You think in systems, reasoning fluently across compute, network, and data, and you stay pragmatic and vendor-agnostic, optimising for outcomes rather than badges. You operate as a single-threaded owner, driving to the outcome, and you communicate with equal ease across engineering teams and executive audiences.
Location & Reporting
Singapore
Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in the interim
Employment Basis
Full-time
Diversity
At Firmus, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds who are passionate about creating a more sustainable future through innovative engineering solutions.
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