Lola Blankets is hiring a VDURA Careers

Lola Blankets is hiring a Senior System Engineer for VDURA to lead the specification, selection, and qualification of server, storage, and networking platforms used in our parallel file system solutions. This role is critical to ensuring our hardware meets the performance, scalability, reliability, and cost objectives required for AI and HPC workloads.

What You'll Do

• Define and own system architectures for VDURA parallel file system solutions, including compute, storage, and networking components
• Specify, evaluate, and select server, storage, and networking platforms from OEMs and technology partners for current and next-generation products
• Lead hardware bring-up, qualification, and validation efforts in collaboration with software, QA, and lab teams
• Recommend continuous improvement changes to the platform definition based on vendor roadmaps and customer feedback
• Develop build and test instructions for integration and manufacturing partners
• Drive performance characterization of platforms, including throughput, latency, IOPS, failover behavior, and scalability under real-world workloads
• Partner with software teams to ensure optimal alignment between hardware capabilities and PanFS datapath and control planes
• Work directly with OEMs, IHVs, and component vendors on roadmap alignment, issue resolution, and joint qualification efforts
• Support customer engagements by providing platform guidance, configuration recommendations, and technical deep dives as needed
• Contribute to lab infrastructure planning and ensure test environments reflect future customer-facing configurations

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field (Master’s preferred)
• 10+ years of experience in hardware engineering, systems engineering, or platform architecture roles
• Strong hands-on experience specifying, benchmarking and qualifying servers, storage systems, and high-performance networking platforms
• Engineering experience with: x86 server architectures
• Engineering experience with: Storage – SAS, SATA, NVMe
• Engineering experience with: Networking – Ethernet, InfiniBand, RDMA, TCP, UDP
• Engineering experience with: Multicore – NUMA, memory management, caching
• Engineering experience with: PCIe Gen5/6
• Engineering experience with: Hypervisor technologies – particularly KVM
• Experience working with HPC, AI, or large-scale storage systems
• Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally with software, QA, and product teams
• Comfortable working with vendors and partners at both technical and roadmap levels
• Strong analytical, documentation, and communication skills

Nice to Have

• Experience with parallel file systems, distributed storage, or scale-out data platforms
• Familiarity with GPU-accelerated systems and AI infrastructure requirements
• Experience with storage benchmarking tools and workload characterization
• Prior exposure to customer-facing technical roles or field engineering support
• Experience building or managing lab environments for system qualification

Technical Stack

• x86 server architectures
• SAS, SATA, NVMe
• Ethernet, InfiniBand, RDMA, TCP, UDP
• NUMA
• PCIe Gen5/6
• KVM

Team & Environment

Work closely with software engineering, QA, product management, and external partners.

Work Mode

This is a hybrid position open to candidates in Pittsburgh, PA and Denver, CO.

At VDURA, we value diversity and are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.