Staff HPC Systems Engineer - Slurm & Cloud Platform Lead

Nscale; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Nscale in London is hiring a Staff HPC Systems Software Engineer to define the technical direction of a core HPC platform. You will scope architecture for Slurm-based services, shaping how multiple teams build, automate, and run the platform in a cloud-native environment.

You’ll work across engineering boundaries to ensure robust, maintainable systems with reusable patterns. The role blends hands-on software engineering with strategic thinking, balancing performance, reliability and operational

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and building production software for HPC systems, especially Slurm-based environments.
• Strong coding in Go and Python with maintainable, testable design.
• Ability to define technical direction across multiple teams.
• Solid understanding of Slurm internals, scheduler behavior and cluster lifecycle.
• Experience with GPU-backed infrastructure and HPC networking (InfiniBand, RoCE, RDMA).
• Experience integrating HPC systems with cloud-native platforms and APIs.
• Experience creating reusable patterns and shared tooling.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the HPC domain's technical direction, including Slurm platform architecture and lifecycle.
• Define packaging, automation and service exposure for Slurm implementations.
• Coordinate ownership, interfaces, and operating models across multiple teams.
• Lead cross-team design for Slurm, Kubernetes-adjacent systems and APIs.
• Provide hands-on contribution to de-risk critical work.
• Set patterns for automation, observability and reliability across the HPC platform.
• Lead initiatives spanning 2–4 teams.
• Clarify direction to unblock delivery.
• Influence teams through judgement and design clarity.

Skills

Slurm architecture

Go

Python

Cross-team leadership

System design

GPU HPC networking

Cloud-native integration

Kueue

Communication skills

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Nscale in London is hiring a Staff HPC Systems Software Engineer to define the technical direction of a core HPC platform. You will scope architecture for Slurm-based services, shaping how multiple teams build, automate, and run the platform in a cloud-native environment.

You’ll work across engineering boundaries to ensure robust, maintainable systems with reusable patterns. The role blends hands-on software engineering with strategic thinking, balancing performance, reliability and operational