Lead HPC Systems Engineer

EPAM Systems Inc; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 155,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts

Disability Insurance

Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

LinkedIn Learning

401(k) Matching

PTO 15–25 days

Paid Holidays

Legal Plan

Identity Theft Protection

Pet Insurance

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Job summary

EPAM Systems Inc. is seeking an engineer with HPC and site-reliability experience to keep a growing multi-cloud AI infrastructure reliable and efficient.

You’ll investigate hard operational problems across compute, accelerators, scheduling, storage, and networking, and turn findings into proactive detection and safe automated remediation. Success comes from understanding HPC in production and rapidly learning unfamiliar systems.

Qualifications

• Operations experience with production HPC, GPU/accelerator clusters, or large-scale distributed compute in a reliability-focused engineering role.
• Strong Linux and networking skills, debugging failures across processes, containers, storage I/O, DNS, connectivity, and authentication.
• Correlates telemetry across multiple cloud environments using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or centralized logging, rather than relying on a single dashboard.
• Writes and maintains automation in a language such as Python or Go, and has owned complex production investigations from symptom through root cause to a verified, lasting fix.

Responsibilities

• Build a working understanding of multi-cloud HPC architecture and keep it current as infrastructure changes.
• Find reliability and performance problems proactively by correlating logs, metrics, and events across cloud providers to form a clear incident picture.
• Diagnose complex issues end to end across Linux hosts, containers, schedulers, distributed workloads, storage, networking, and accelerators, isolating root cause.
• Turn investigations into repeatable tooling and agent-enabled workflows for detection, diagnosis, and bounded remediation with safety checks.
• Strengthen observability and monitoring and partner with teams to turn incident lessons into durable fixes.

Skills

HPC operations

Linux

Networking

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Automation (Python/Go)

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Our client is looking for an engineer with high-performance computing (HPC) and site-reliability experience to keep their growing multi-cloud AI infrastructure reliable and efficient. You will investigate hard operational problems across compute, accelerators, workload scheduling, storage, and networking, and turn what you learn into proactive detection, diagnosis, and safe automated remediation, including AI-powered agents.

Success here starts with understanding how HPC infrastructure behaves in production and learning unfamiliar systems fast. Prior experience building or orchestrating AI agents is welcome but not required.

Req# 1103823066

Responsibilities

• Build a working understanding of multi-cloud HPC architecture (clusters, schedulers, accelerators, storage, networking, authentication) and keep it current as the infrastructure changes

• Find reliability and performance problems proactively, correlating logs, metrics, and events across cloud providers to build a clear incident picture and spot gaps in telemetry

• Diagnose complex issues end to end across Linux hosts, containers, schedulers, distributed workloads, storage, networking, and accelerators, isolating root cause rather than treating symptoms

• Turn proven investigations into repeatable tooling and agent-enabled workflows for detection, diagnosis, and bounded remediation, with safety built in: scoped permissions, precondition checks, human approval where needed, rollback, and post-change verification

• Strengthen observability and monitoring, measure whether the automation actually works (accuracy, recovery time, recurrence, false positives), and partner with infrastructure, research, security, and cloud-provider teams to turn incident lessons into durable fixes

Requirements

• Operations experience with production HPC, GPU/accelerator clusters, or large-scale distributed compute in a reliability-focused engineering role

• Strong Linux and networking skills, debugging failures across processes, containers, storage I/O, DNS, connectivity, and authentication

• Correlates telemetry across multiple cloud environments using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or centralized logging, rather than relying on a single dashboard

• Writes and maintains automation in a language such as Python or Go, and has owned complex production investigations from symptom through root cause to a verified, lasting fix

Nice to have

• Hands-on with HPC scheduling or cluster orchestration (Slurm, Kubernetes, or similar), and an understanding of how infrastructure health affects workload placement and completion

• Supporting AI training or accelerator-intensive workloads: GPU/TPU health, distributed-job failures, interconnect problems, data-loading bottlenecks, or checkpointing

• Experience across clouds such as AWS, GCP, CoreWeave, or OCI and their native observability services. You do not need every provider named here

• HPC storage and networking (NFS/POSIX, Lustre, object storage, RDMA/InfiniBand or RoCE), infrastructure-as-code and deployment tooling (Terraform, Helm, cluster operators), and failure-injection or replayable incident testing

• Building, integrating, evaluating, or orchestrating AI agents for infrastructure operations (tool interfaces, permissions, verifying agent actions)

• Welcome, but not required; strong HPC operations and SRE skills are the foundation of this role

We offer

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance (Subsidized)

• Health Savings Account

• Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care, Commuter)

• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability (Company Provided)

• Life and AD&D Insurance (Company Provided)

• Employee Assistance Program

• Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions

• Matched 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

• Paid Time Off – the employee will be eligible to accrue 15-25 paid days, depending on specific level and tenure with EPAM (accrual eligibility may change over time)

• Paid Holidays - nine (9) total per year

• Legal Plan and Identity Theft Protection

• Accident Insurance

• Employee Discounts

• Pet Insurance

• Employee Stock Purchase Program

• If otherwise eligible, participation in the discretionary annual bonus program

• If otherwise eligible and hired into a qualifying level, participation in the discretionary Long-Term Incentive (LTI) Program

This Remote Position Cannot be Performed in New York City.

This posting includes a good faith range of the salary EPAM would reasonably expect to pay the selected candidate. The range provided reflects base salary only. Individual compensation offers within the range are based on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to: geographic location, experience, credentials, education, training; the demand for the role; and overall business and labor market considerations. Most candidates are hired at a salary within the range disclosed. Salary range: $155,000 - $175,000. In addition, the details highlighted in this job posting above are a general description of all other expected benefits and compensation for the position.

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