Principal Lab Services Engineer

About Nscale

Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI. We provide cost-effective, high-performance

infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. Nscale enables AI-focused

companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development. Our GPU

cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including

cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility.

At Nscale, our Engineering team plays a critical role in driving the deployment and then

subsequent management of our infrastructure and software platforms.

We thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team

member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an Nscaler, you’ll

build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work. If

you join our team, you’ll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future.

About The Role

Please note that this role will not require office presence, but rather presence within one of our labs and / or Datacenters.

The Principal Lab Services Engineer will provide senior technical leadership for Nscale’s lab environments, ensuring they are designed, operated, and continuously improved to support hardware development, platform validation, and cluster bring-up.

This role will act as the senior technical owner for lab capability, with a strong focus on next-generation GPU infrastructure and the physical requirements needed to support it, including space, power, cooling, networking, and operational readiness. The Principal Lab Services Engineer will play a key role in ensuring that development environments are scalable, reliable, and fit for purpose.

The role will also be central to dogfooding our internal automation and operational tooling, helping to validate that clusters can be brought up, configured, and managed using our own platforms and workflows. This person will work closely with engineering, infrastructure, and lab operations teams to improve the efficiency, consistency, and reliability of lab-based deployment and testing.

What You'll Be Doing (Responsibilities)

Provide senior technical ownership of lab environments and the standards that underpin

their operation.

Lead technical planning for lab capacity, including rack space, power, cooling, cabling,

networking, and physical deployment requirements.

Define and maintain technical standards for lab design, hardware installation, cluster

bring-up, operational readiness, and lifecycle management.

Act as the senior technical authority for introducing and supporting next-generation GPU

systems in the lab estate.

Assess infrastructure requirements for new hardware platforms and ensure lab

environments are capable of supporting high-density compute workloads.

Work closely with platform and infrastructure teams to bring up and validate clusters using

internal automation and tooling.

Dogfood internal provisioning, configuration, and cluster management tooling, providing

feedback to improve reliability, usability, and operational effectiveness.

Troubleshoot complex hardware, infrastructure, and environment issues across lab

systems.

Lead root cause analysis and corrective actions for major lab-related incidents or recurring

technical problems.

Produce and maintain runbooks, standards, and technical documentation for lab

operations and cluster bring-up.

Mentor engineers and help raise the technical capability of the wider Lab Services

function.

Partner with facilities, vendors, and internal stakeholders to ensure infrastructure

dependencies are understood and managed appropriately.

Support roadmap planning by translating future engineering and hardware requirements

into technical lab capability.

About You

Deep technical understanding of hardware infrastructure, including servers, storage,

networking, and GPU-based platforms.

Strong knowledge of the physical and operational requirements for next-generation GPU

infrastructure, particularly around power, cooling, space, and resilience.

Strong hands-on experience with cluster bring-up, infrastructure validation, and hardware

troubleshooting.

Good understanding of automation-led infrastructure operations and the practical

application of internal tooling in real-world environments.

Ability to define technical standards and drive consistent operational practices across

teams.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, particularly in complex hardware and

infrastructure environments.

Ability to work across hardware, facilities, engineering, and software teams to solve

end-to-end operational challenges.

Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence both technical

and operational stakeholders.

Mentoring capability and a collaborative approach to technical leadership.

Experience

Significant experience in lab operations, hardware infrastructure, data centre operations, or

a similar technical environment.

Proven experience supporting high-density compute or GPU infrastructure.

Experience planning or validating infrastructure requirements for new hardware platforms,

including power, cooling, rack space, and deployment readiness.

Experience with bare metal, cluster provisioning, system bring-up, or infrastructure

lifecycle operations.

Experience working closely with platform or software teams to validate automation and

improve operational tooling.

Experience owning complex technical issues from diagnosis through to resolution and

prevention.

Experience producing technical standards, documentation, and operational runbooks.

Experience in AI, HPC, or large-scale GPU environments would be highly desirable.

What We Can Offer You

At Nscale, you'll find a collaborative, supportive, and innovative environment where your contributions spark real impact. We're building something extraordinary, and we want you at the core.

Highly competitive package (base + equity) with reviews every 12 months. 🚀

Join the fastest-growing tech startup, your chance to push boundaries, collaborate with brilliant minds, and make your mark on cutting-edge AI. ✨

Expect a dynamic progression plan tailored to your ambitions. Grow by trying new things, leading, challenging the status quo, and owning your impact, always with our full support.

Human-First Flexibility: We treat you as humans first. 🫶🏽 Our flexible workplace trusts Nscalers to deliver, giving you the autonomy to shape your day around life's moments.

Join our thriving remote-first team. Geography is no barrier to impact or connection. We build seamless virtual collaboration, empowering you, wherever you work.

Equal Opportunities Statement

We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.

The responsibilities outlined in this job description are not exhaustive and are intended to provide a general overview of the position. The employee may be required to perform additional duties, tasks, and responsibilities as assigned by management, consistent with the skills and qualifications required for the role.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.

The responsibilities outlined in this job description are not exhaustive and are intended to

provide a general overview of the position. The employee may be required to perform additional

duties, tasks, and responsibilities as assigned by management, consistent with the skills and

qualifications required for the role.

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