HPC Engineer

Future Talent Group; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Future Talent Group in Bristol is seeking an HPC Engineer to own the engineering hardware estate, from GPU servers to rugged edge nodes, and help outfit a new high-end test facility. You will apply HPC instincts for performance, standardisation and repeatable provisioning, advising project teams on the best platform for their workloads.

This role blends hands-on hardware work with architecture design, demanding practical knowledge across Linux, storage, networking and compute for field

Qualifications

• Experience specifying, building and running compute for engineering, research or lab environments.
• Strong Linux fundamentals, provisioning and troubleshooting near the metal.
• Practical GPU and accelerated computing knowledge.
• Networking and storage knowledge to design end-to-end systems.
• Proven track record turning a messy kit into a tidy estate.

Responsibilities

• Selecting GPU, compute, storage and networking hardware
• Designing reference architectures and building reference systems
• Standardising and documenting configurations so kit is reproducible
• Provisioning and maintaining engineering infrastructure across its life
• Advising project teams on the right platform for their workload

Skills

GPU compute

Linux fundamentals

Networking

Storage

Edge compute

Job description

HPC Engineer (Edge and Engineering Compute)

Bristol, Hybrid

Are you an HPC or systems engineer who wants to see the hardware you specify leave the server room and do something real?

Our client is one of Europe’s fastest-growing defence and national security engineering businesses who've grown from 30 to around 200 people. Their technology turns advances in sensing, AI and communications into capability for frontline teams, often in places where connectivity is limited. They’ve recently set up a Platform Engineering team to build reusable technology across the business, and they’re looking for someone to own the compute that everything runs on.

The role

You’ll take ownership of the engineering hardware estate, from GPU servers and test infrastructure through to small, rugged edge nodes. A big early project is fitting out a new high-end test and evaluation facility. That means specifying the hardware, building reference systems and setting up the configurations that engineering teams will rely on.

Alongside that, you’ll be the person project teams come to when they need to know what to build on. You’ll take your HPC instincts for performance, standardisation and repeatable provisioning and apply them to systems that get deployed in the field.

What you’ll be doing

• Selecting GPU, compute, storage and networking hardware
• Designing reference architectures and building reference systems
• Standardising and documenting configurations so kit is reproducible
• Provisioning and maintaining engineering infrastructure across its life
• Advising project teams on the right platform for their workload

What we’re looking for

• Experience specifying, building and running compute for engineering, research or lab environments
• Strong Linux fundamentals, including provisioning and troubleshooting close to the metal
• Practical GPU and accelerated computing knowledge
• Enough networking and storage knowledge to design and debug systems end to end
• A track record of turning a messy collection of kit into a tidy, supportable estate
• Bonus: interest in edge or rugged compute, or exposure to edge AI hardware