Server Engineer
Posted 10 Sep 2026
Advertised as “Server Engineer (Hybrid Hong Kong) ”
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- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- On-Site
- Contract
- Full-time
No salary listed for this role.
Job Description
Location: Hong Kong — on-site (factory floor, test lab and manufacturing sites; this is not a remote or desk-based role)
Start date: ASAP
Languages: Fluent English and fluent Mandarin are both mandatory
Industry: HPC / GPU Server Manufacturing / Sovereign Cloud Infrastructure
Pragmatike is recruiting on behalf of a European deep-tech company building a sovereign, energy-efficient alternative to traditional cloud providers. Unlike most cloud players, our client designs and manufactures its own HPC infrastructure end to end — chassis, boards and containerized units — and deploys it as the hardware layer of a vertically integrated AI cloud. The company is growing fast and is expanding its manufacturing and testing capability in Hong Kong.
Professional Background:
We're looking for a Server Engineer with hands-on GPU/HPC hardware experience who has tested and validated servers, not just operated them. You should be comfortable moving between the factory floor and the test lab, with a strong Linux background and real familiarity with firmware and GPU software stacks (CUDA, NCCL). You take ownership of quality: if a server ships, it is because you signed off on it.
Startup or hyper-growth experience is a strong plus. Autonomy, rigor and problem-solving are essential.
Your Responsibilities:
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Own quality control across the client's manufacturing sites, on the factory floor.
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Run the hardware test lab: board and system bring-up, validation and stress testing of new server builds.
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Oversee the assembly and end-to-end testing of GPU servers before they are deployed into the client's sovereign cloud.
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Define and maintain test procedures, acceptance criteria and QC checkpoints for chassis, boards and full systems.
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Diagnose hardware, firmware and driver-level issues (BIOS/BMC, GPU firmware, PCIe, thermals, power) and drive root-cause analysis with the design and manufacturing teams.
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Validate GPU compute and interconnect performance under Linux using CUDA, NCCL and related benchmarking tools.
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Document failures, yields and test results, and feed findings back into hardware design and production processes.
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Coordinate day to day with manufacturing partners and local suppliers in both English and Mandarin.
What You Bring: