Graduate HPC Software Engineer – Platform & Automation

HMx Labs Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Job summary

HMx Labs Limited in London is seeking an early-career engineer to operate and automate HPC platforms for financial services. You’ll join the team and help automate adoption of new HPC platforms while modernising applications.

The role is hybrid in London with flexible office days. You must have the right to work in the UK; visa sponsorship and relocation are not provided. Salary £35–40k plus healthcare. You don’t need prior HPC experience, just a willingness to learn, grow and impress.

Qualifications

• Willingness to learn, grow and adapt in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to program proficiently in at least one language and write scripts.
• Comfort with working on the command line and hands-on operational work.

Responsibilities

• Building automation around existing manual processes for adopting a high-performance computing platform.
• Dealing with the manual processes until automated.
• Working in Windows Server and Linux environments.
• Troubleshooting complex HPC codebases and infrastructure during platform migrations.
• Automating the HMx Labs estate (~30 servers).

Job description

Want to work on building critical systems running on over 100,000 cores daily? Want to start your career with real responsibility and opportunities to grow rather than just building CRUD APIs and web apps?

We’re looking for a someone to help us operate and automate HPC platforms in financial services. You’ll be working as part of the team, engaged directly with our clients, to help automate the adoption of new HPC platforms and modernise applications in the process.

What you’ll be doing

80% of your time will be spent

• Building automation around existing manual processes for adopting a high-performance computing platform
• Dealing with the manual processes till you get them automated
• Working in both Windows Server and Linux environments
• Troubleshooting complex high performance computing codebases and infrastructure as we migrate them to a new platform

20% of it will be spent on

• Automating the small HMx Labs estate (~ 30 servers)

Who we’re looking for

Someone who is early career, either

• A graduate with strong internship experience
• A graduate with one year of post graduate employment experience

You don’t need prior supercomputing or HPC experience. You do need to demonstrate a willingness to learn, grow, adapt and impress.

You should be able

• to program proficiently in at least one language already
• be comfortable working on the command line and writing scripts
• be prepared to do hands on operational work as well as writing code
• hate doing that operational work so much you’ll automate it all as fast as you can

Why HMx Labs

We’re a boutique, highly specialised, consultancy that works at the sharp end of large scale computing, data classification and financial services.

You’ll have the unique ability to work within a startup on cutting edge projects and inform how those are built by working with real clients that happen to be some of the largest organisations in the world.

Location

London based, hybrid in office

Office Days

Flexible, on a as required basis

Right to work

You must have the right to work and live in the UK. We will not be sponsoring any visa and do not offer any form of relocation assistance or allowance.

Salary Range

£35 – 40k + healthcare