OUR STORY

🇪🇺 Join Scaleway and shape the sovereign cloud of tomorrow !

Since 1999, we have been designing secure, sustainable infrastructures aimed at supporting the most ambitious companies.

Historically known for our dedicated servers (Dedibox), we made a strategic shift to cloud computing in 2015. Staying true to our principles of simplicity, flexibility, and technical excellence, we have become one of the leading players in Europe in the sector.

With the rise of artificial intelligence, we have strengthened our commitment, supported by the Iliad Group, which is investing €3 billion to develop a serious, sovereign AI alternative to American and Asian giants.

Every day, thanks to our fast-growing portfolio of cloud and AI products (bare metal, containerization, serverless, AI, etc.), Scaleway proudly serves thousands of customer across the private and public sector, from corporations like France Télévisions or Hachette Livre, to fast-growing startups like Photoroom and Biolevate, to institutions like the City of Copenhagen.

📍 Our offices are located in Paris, Lille, Toulouse, Rennes, Rouen, Bordeaux and Lyon.

WHY WE NEED YOU ?

Your mission will be to test, validate and qualify hardware and firmware solutions, while working closely with our internal teams and hardware manufacturers.

You will also help investigate technical issues, improve our validation processes, and document the hardware solutions we select for our datacenter environments.

YOUR FUTURE TEAM

You will join a collaborative and technical team working closely with Product, Engineering and Architecture teams, as well as hardware manufacturers and ODM/OEM partners.

You will have the opportunity to work on Open Hardware projects, discover new technologies, and get hands-on with hardware. Sharing knowledge, curiosity and teamwork are key to the way we work.

YOUR DAILY ROUTINE

Be the point of contact and the Hardware Engineering team reference for the other teams for any hardware related question,

Manage internal projects related to hardware in coordination with the VP Hardware Engineering,

Technology watch looking for any improvement with regards to Hardware and Firmware topics,

Liaise with the different manufacturers for technical issues, improvements requests,

Evaluate and validate the possible HW new solutions being tested for new Scaleway products,

Interact with the HW R&D and HW Architect to refine the configurations of the possible HW solutions,

Close relationship with the HW R&D and HW Architect,

Help the HW Support team with diagnosis of complex situation,

Provide technical guidelines for the team developing HW validation software tools,

Act as a consultant for the other teams of the Operations organization (Supply Chain, Manufacturing, …)

Help training all the teams on how hardware functions,

Contribute to our involvement in the Open Hardware and Open Source Firmware projects.

ABOUT YOU

Minimum qualifications

Advanced knowledge of the computer/server hardware from the various OEM and ODMHardware management and monitoring standards (IPMI, Redfish) Firmware constraints (settings, updates, security)Advanced knowledge of the various types of technology and components (GPU, DPU, DIMM, CPU, storage, NICs, HBA, …)

Good knowledge of Linux-based environments

grub, kernel, basic commands, Terminal, scripting, …

General system administration (PXE, DHCP, …)

Knowledge of the Cloud ecosystem and products

Creativity and strong self-motivation

Focus on industrialization and processes

Project management

Structured thinking, prioritizing, and long-term planning skills

Communication/summarizing/documentation skills: being able to summarize all kinds of information efficiently and synthetically as well as popularization targeting non-technical teams within Scaleway

Full professional English proficiency

Preferred qualifications

Knowledge of OpenHardware community, OCP, OpenBMC

Knowledge of HPC/AI architectures (distributed file systems, checkpointing, interconnect network topologies)

Knowledge of the network hardware

At Scaleway, we are committed to building an inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone has a fair opportunity to thrive.

All applications are considered with care, regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnic or social background, religion, disability, or any other characteristic.

We believe great ideas come from everywhere, and everyone which is why you should definitely apply.