Frontline HPC Deployment Engineer

Darwin Recruitment; California; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Darwin Recruitment seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer for Bay Area, CA. You will work directly with research and enterprise teams to deploy infrastructure software across Linux systems, schedulers, and Kubernetes in AI/HPC environments.

The role combines hands-on troubleshooting, deployment ownership, performance optimisation, and feedback to product teams. Strong Linux and SLURM experience are essential.

Qualifications

• Around 5+ years of software engineering experience in production workload environments.
• Experience leading multi-month enterprise or research deployments end to end.
• Hands-on expertise deploying and administering SLURM with GPU resources.
• Strong Linux sysadmin knowledge: systemd, cgroups v2, namespaces, networking.

Responsibilities

• Lead customer integrations and deploy software into HPC environments.
• Configure and troubleshoot Linux, schedulers, Kubernetes, networking, and monitoring.
• Identify gaps and provide actionable feedback to product teams.
• Measure performance and design automation to improve workload handling.
• Own deployments and troubleshoot production issues across the stack.
• Develop installation guides and repeatable deployment processes.

Skills

Linux systems

Kubernetes

SLURM

Troubleshooting

Performance tuning

Tools

SLURM

Kubernetes

strace

dmesg

Job description

Darwin Recruitment seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer for Bay Area, CA. You will work directly with research and enterprise teams to deploy infrastructure software across Linux systems, schedulers, and Kubernetes in AI/HPC environments.

The role combines hands-on troubleshooting, deployment ownership, performance optimisation, and feedback to product teams. Strong Linux and SLURM experience are essential.