Solution 04

Stay close until the capability is internal.

Senior ML systems engineers embedded with the client team to keep private AI factory workloads running, improving, and transferring into internal ownership.

04 / Resident Engineering

Resident Engineering

Team self-sufficient

Use this when multiple teams need utilization, run support, workload triage, and ownership control.

Operating outcome

What changes

The client stops depending on heroic one-off interventions. Capacity planning, workload triage, run support, model-production practices, and operating economics become part of the team.

Best fit

When to use it

Best when the cluster is strategic, multiple model teams will use it, and leadership wants sustained utilization, fewer failed runs, and faster internal ramp-up.

Entry state

Strategic cluster with multiple workload teams and shared capacity.

Primary artifact

Scheduler policy readout with utilization, queue, and ownership signals.

Decision output

Internal team controls run support, triage, and operating backlog.

Buyer owner

Executive sponsor, platform lead, and model-production owners.

Capacity operations

Resident engineering is where utilization becomes a managed system.

GPU capacity scheduler

768-GPU partition scheduling

Allocation is scattered. Free GPUs exist, but not as one schedulable block.

utilization
GPUs reclaimed
cost per run
gang-jobs queued

Representative managed partition. Metrics derive from the scheduler state above.

Workstreams

The work inside Resident Engineering.

/01

Operating cadence

Run technical reviews across training, inference, scheduler policy, incidents, utilization, backlog, and business deadlines.

/02

Run support

Support high-value training and serving workloads through launch, monitoring, failure response, checkpoint recovery, and performance tuning.

/03

Capacity economics

Manage training-versus-inference allocation, queue health, fragmentation, preemption policy, utilization, and cost-per-token/cost-per-run visibility.

/04

Platform maturity

Convert repeated field problems into reusable templates, guardrails, dashboards, runbooks, and platform features the internal team keeps.

/05

Team enablement

Teach the client engineers how to debug the stack: fabric, storage, scheduler, training loops, evals, and serving SLOs.

/06

Roadmap and governance

Turn the cluster into a managed portfolio of workloads with priorities, acceptance criteria, and an escalation model.

What you keep
  • Resident engineering cadence and operating report
  • Utilization, queue, and economics dashboards
  • Production workload support and incident response
  • Reusable recipes, templates, and runbooks
  • Client team training and ownership transfer
  • Roadmap for private AI factory operations