Director, HPC Systems Software Engineering

Nscale; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Nscale is seeking a Director of HPC Systems Engineering to lead strategy and execution of its HPC systems engineering function. You will shape the architecture, drive service quality, and align priorities with long-term platform strategy.

Reporting to executive leadership, you will build and lead managers, senior engineers, and a scalable, high-performing organization capable of delivering reliable HPC platforms as services for the business.

Qualifications

• Director-level responsible for strategy and execution of HPC systems engineering

Responsibilities

• Shape strategy for a major HPC platform area
• Build and lead teams delivering HPC capabilities
• Ensure reliability, scalability, and supportability of HPC platforms
• Operate at organisation scope with governance and prioritisation

Job description

About The Role (Job Purpose)The Director, HPC Systems Engineering is accountable for the strategy, execution, and organisational effectiveness of Nscale’s HPC systems engineering function. This role operates at organisation scope and is responsible for ensuring that teams deliver reliable, scalable, and supportable HPC platform capabilities aligned with business priorities and long-term platform strategy.

About The Role (Job Purpose)The Director, HPC Systems Engineering is accountable for the strategy, execution, and organisational effectiveness of Nscale’s HPC systems engineering function. This role operates at organisation scope and is responsible for ensuring that teams deliver reliable, scalable, and supportable HPC platform capabilities aligned with business priorities and long-term platform strategy.
This role combines organisational leadership with strong technical and operational judgement. You will shape the strategy for a major HPC platform area, build and lead the teams responsible for delivering it, and ensure that architecture, execution, and service quality remain aligned as the organisation grows.
As a Director, your impact comes through leadership of managers, senior engineers, and team-of-teams structures. You are accountable for building a healthy, high-performing organisation with the right structure, talent, operating model, and priorities to package and operate high-quality HPC systems as services.