HPC Developer

Autonomai Recruitment; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Autonomai Recruitment seeks a software-focused HPC Data Center Developer to automate onboarding, provisioning, monitoring and lifecycle management of data-centre assets. You will design production-grade automation in Golang and work across servers, GPUs, switches, PDUs and environmental sensors.

The role demands strong Linux systems engineering, experience automating physical hardware, and familiarity with Kubernetes, Prometheus and Grafana for observability.

Qualifications

• Strong Golang development experience in production
• Proven automation of physical hardware or data-centre infra
• Experience building automation for servers, GPUs, switches, PDUs and cooling
• Strong Linux and systems engineering knowledge
• Understanding of rack-scale infrastructure and data-centre operations
• Experience with observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana)
• Familiarity with configuration management, infrastructure as code and CI/CD
• Experience in HPC, AI/ML, GPU or high-density compute environments

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain production-grade automation in Golang
• Automate full lifecycle of HPC data-centre hardware from discovery to decommissioning
• Build workflows for servers, GPUs, switches, rack PDUs, CDUs and environmental sensors
• Develop end-to-end processes from racked hardware to production readiness
• Integrate with hardware management interfaces and vendor platforms
• Build tooling for health monitoring, diagnostics and automated recovery
• Integrate telemetry into centralised monitoring platforms
• Support capacity planning across power, cooling, rack space and compute
• Develop inventory, spares, change management and lifecycle tracking
• Collaborate with HPC engineering, data-centre operations and network teams
• Translate manual processes into reliable automation and maintain it
• Support large-scale deployments and production incidents

Skills

Golang

Linux

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Python

CI/CD

Tools

Redfish

IPMI

SNMP

Vendor APIs

Shell

Job description

We are looking for an HPC Data Center Developer to build the automation and tooling that supports large-scale high-performance computing infrastructure.

This is a development-focused role for an engineer who understands both software and data-centre hardware. You will automate the onboarding, provisioning, monitoring and lifecycle management of servers, network equipment, power systems, cooling infrastructure and other critical data-centre assets.

The ideal candidate will have strong, hands-on experience with Golang and a proven track record of automating physical hardware and infrastructure at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain production-grade automation in Golang.
• Automate the full lifecycle of HPC data-centre hardware, from initial discovery and provisioning through to deployment, monitoring, maintenance and decommissioning.
• Build workflows for servers, GPUs, network switches, rack PDUs, CDUs, environmental sensors and related infrastructure.
• Develop end-to-end processes that take hardware from racked and cabled through configuration, validation and production readiness with minimal manual intervention.
• Integrate with hardware management interfaces, APIs and protocols such as Redfish, IPMI, SNMP and vendor-specific platforms.
• Build tooling for hardware health monitoring, diagnostics, alerting and automated recovery.
• Integrate telemetry from compute, networking, power, cooling and environmental systems into centralised monitoring platforms.
• Support capacity planning across power, cooling, rack space, networking and compute resources.
• Develop operational tools for inventory management, spares, change management, troubleshooting and hardware lifecycle tracking.
• Work closely with HPC engineering, data-centre operations, network, systems and infrastructure teams.
• Translate manual operational processes and pain points into reliable, maintainable automation.
• Own the reliability, documentation and ongoing improvement of the systems and tools you develop.
• Support large-scale infrastructure deployments, maintenance activities and production incidents when required.

Required experience

• Strong professional experience developing software in Golang.
• Demonstrable experience automating physical hardware or data-centre infrastructure.
• Experience building production automation for server, GPU, network, storage, power or cooling systems.
• Strong Linux and systems engineering knowledge.
• Understanding of server components, rack-scale infrastructure and data-centre operations.
• Experience developing reliable, scalable and observable production systems.
• Ability to work effectively with infrastructure, hardware and operations teams.
• Strong troubleshooting, debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Experience supporting HPC, AI/ML, GPU or high-density compute environments.
• Experience with data-centre hardware such as GPUs, servers, switches, rack PDUs, CDUs and environmental monitoring systems.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, Slurm or other cluster-management and workload-orchestration technologies.
• Experience with Python, Bash or another systems programming language.
• Familiarity with configuration management, infrastructure as code and CI/CD.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana or other observability platforms.
• Exposure to power, cooling and data-centre capacity planning.
• Experience in a high-availability, trading, cloud, hyperscale or other performance-critical environment.

What we are looking for

This role would suit a software engineer, infrastructure developer, systems engineer or data-centre automation engineer who enjoys working close to the hardware.