About this role
<p> </p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>About us</strong></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Bull is a story. One with a century of European innovation and a working environment where experts design powerful, sustainable, and sovereign digital solutions, enabling states and industries to retain full control over their data and their AI.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Bull is also thousands of engineers, researchers and passionate tech people shaping the future of high-performance computing, AI, and quantum technologies.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Every day, our teams push the boundaries of what is technologically possible – from next-generation HPC architectures to exascale supercomputers – supported by world-class R&D, more than 1,600 patents, and unique end-to-end capabilities spanning hardware design, software engineering, data science and quantum research.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">We are a people-centric, innovation-driven company, where collaboration spans Europe, the Americas and India. We share a common vision of a responsible and sustainable innovation that delivers concrete impact for our customers.</span></p><div> </div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong><span>Software AI & Cloud Architect (SDA Team)</span></strong></span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>Location:</strong> Bull HPC sites in France: <strong>Grenoble (38), Les Clayes-sous-bois (78), Bruyères-le-Châtel (91), Bordeaux (33), Rennes (35), Toulouse (31) or Montpellier (34)</strong>. Other locations in Europe or <strong>Remote</strong> options available.</span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>Team:</strong> Solution, Design & Architecture (SDA)</span></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <hr> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>The Mission:</strong> Scaling our Software Architecture</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">The SDA team is the deeply technical "architectural heart" of our business line. In the past, HPC presales focused primarily on cluster management and compilers. Today, the landscape has shifted: our customers now demand <strong>Sovereign Cloud-native architectures</strong> and <strong>End-to-End AI pipelines</strong>.</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">While we already have dedicated expertise in this field. We are looking for a second Software Architect to to approach these complex deals and design solutions which will large and sensitive AI workloads.</span></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></span></div> <div> </div> <ul> <li style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>Architect the Future:</strong> Design modern software solutions for complex bids, moving beyond standard monitoring to architecting <strong>OpenShift ecosystems</strong> and <strong>multi-tenant environments </strong>to architect HPC/AI hybrid cloud environments.</span></li> <li style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>Scale our Reach:</strong> Partner with the existing software lead to cover an increasing volume of deals, ensuring every tender receives top-tier architectural design.</span></li> <li style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>Be the Technical Voice:</strong> Analyze and translate precise customer requirements into airtight technical architectures. You will own the software chapters of our technical proposals.</span></li> <li style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>On-Site Defense:</strong> Stand in front of CIOs and lead researchers to defend our architectural choices and prove our software superiority.</span></li> <li style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>Product Influence:</strong> Act as a bridge to Product Management and R&D. Your frontline experience will directly influence the development of our future <strong>"as-a-Service" (aaS)</strong> software models.</span></li> <li style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>Deal Strategy:</strong> Collaborate with the wider SDA team to build financially and technically viable solutions that win Tier-0 projects.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p> </p> <div><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>The Tech Stack</strong></span></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <ul> <li style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>Core:</strong> Kubernetes (K8s), Docker/Podman, Red Hat OpenShift.</span></li> <li style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>Virtualization:</strong> Expertise in both "Light" (Containers) and "Heavy" (KVM/VM) virtualization.</span></li> <li style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"> <div><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>AI Pipelines:</strong> Deep understanding of training and inference workflows.</span></div> </li> <li style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>OS Foundation:</strong> Native-level fluency in Linux (RHEL/Ubuntu/CoreOS).</span></li> <li style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>The "Plus":</strong> Knowledge of Cluster management software, Slurm, InfiniBand, or parallel file systems.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p> </p> <div><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>Who You Are</strong></span></div> <div> </div> <ul> <li style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>The Hybrid Profile:</strong> You likely have a <strong>Systems Administration background</strong> but pivoted into the Cloud/AI world. You know the "plumbing" as well as the "architecture."</span></li> <li style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>Curious & Autonomous:</strong> You don't wait for a manual; you install, test, and break things to understand how they work.</span></li> <li style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>Resilient:</strong> You thrive in the high-pressure environment of a deeply technical presales team managing large-scale tenders.</span></li> <li style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>Communicator:</strong> You can explain the complexity of a container escape or a multi-tenant isolation strategy to a C-level executive as easily as to a developer.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p> </p> <div><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>Why Join the SDA Team?</strong></span></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <ul> <li style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>Technical Elite:</strong> Join a group of 25 architects where deep technical knowledge is the primary currency.</span></li> <li style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>Sovereignty:</strong> Under the APE (French State agency) umbrella, you are working for European technological independence.</span></li> <li style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>Strategic Growth:</strong> You are not just a "support" person; you are a key pillar in a team scaling up to meet the most exciting challenges in modern computing.</span></li> </ul> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt;color:white">#Bull</span></div><p style="text-align:center"> </p> <p style="text-align:center"> </p> <p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>Join us</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align:center"> </p> <p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Here, your ideas, your curiosity and your technical excellence directly shape the next era of advanced computing - unlocking enterprise value, accelerating scientific progress and driving positive impact for society.</span></p>