Robert McQueen

Senior Ai Ml Hpc Cluster Engineer @NVIDIA

Peoria, AZ, US

Lead operations of large-scale AI/HPC clusters across on-premises and cloud environments, serving as primary “pilot in command” for upgrades, reliability improvements, and incident response. • Drive end-to-end cluster lifecycle management, including deployment of heterogeneous compute, networking (InfiniBand/RDMA), and high-performance storage (Lustre, GPFS). • Designed and implemented scalable automation frameworks leveraging Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker/Singularity, and Python, improving system reliability and reducing manual intervention. • Optimized GPU-accelerated workloads through performance tuning, fragmentation reduction, and resource utilization analysis, cutting GPU waste and increasing throughput against SLA targets. • Partner with researchers and ML engineers to analyze and optimize deep learning workflows (MPI, CUDA, PyTorch, TensorFlow), enabling faster experimentation and reduced model training time.