Lead HPC Engineer — On-Site, Slurm & GPU Expert

The Aerospace Corporation; United States; On-site; USD 135,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health care

401(k) plan

Relocation assistance

Education assistance

Job summary

The Aerospace Corporation seeks a High-Performance Computing (HPC) Engineer (Site Reliability Engineer Staff III/IV) to join our Computational Services team. You will design, implement, and optimize on-premises and cloud HPC clusters while collaborating with scientists and engineers on mission-critical analysis.

The role requires advanced Linux administration, Slurm knowledge, and automation experience; TS/SCI clearance is preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years Linux system administration in an enterprise HPC environment.
• Experience with Slurm scheduler and environment modules.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps practices.
• Experience with AI & GPU technologies (CUDA) and scripting.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with scientists and engineers on mission-critical technical analysis for national space assets.
• Lead cross-functional teams and mentor junior engineers.
• Design and optimize HPC clusters for on-premises and cloud environments.
• Manage 10,000-core classified and 5,000-core unclassified clusters.
• Develop automation using tools like Clush and implement IaC and GitOps.
• Harden Linux systems to meet security requirements.

Skills

Linux administration

Slurm scheduler

Automation scripting

GitOps

Clush

HPC design

Communication skills

Security+ / DoD 8570

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience

Tools

Environment modules

CUDA (NVIDIA)

Ansible

Terraform

Open OnDemand

Job description

The Aerospace Corporation seeks a High-Performance Computing (HPC) Engineer (Site Reliability Engineer Staff III/IV) to join our Computational Services team. You will design, implement, and optimize on-premises and cloud HPC clusters while collaborating with scientists and engineers on mission-critical analysis.

The role requires advanced Linux administration, Slurm knowledge, and automation experience; TS/SCI clearance is preferred.