Senior Grid Operations Architect - Scale HPC to 1M Cores

Siemens Digital Industries Software; Wilsonville (OR); On-site; USD 130,000 - 233,000; Full time

Job summary

Siemens Digital Industries Software is seeking a Grid Operations Architect to own the architectural vision for scaling a global HPC grid. You will lead the migration from AGE to Accelerator, design future grid topologies, and drive modernization across 18+ grids with 9+ clusters.

A seasoned leader will coordinate capacity planning and governance, while aligning with cross-functional teams to ensure reliability and performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field; Master's preferred.
• 15+ years in systems engineering, infrastructure architecture, or HPC/grid computing with leadership experience.
• Experience scaling compute infrastructure across multi-site, enterprise environments (100K+ cores).
• Strong Linux knowledge; kernel tuning, performance optimization, large-scale fleet management.
• Proven ability to migrate/consolidate schedulers (e.g., AGE to Accelerator).
• Proven ability to present complex technical concepts to senior leadership and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own multi-year architectural roadmap to scale grid compute to 1M+ cores across 18+ grids.
• Design migration plan from AGE to Accelerator's hierarchical scheduling.
• Lead capacity planning and forecasting aligned with utilization and procurement governance.
• Develop unified grid tooling, automation, and observability across regions.
• Mentor grid admins and establish governance for large-scale compute operations.
• Collaborate with A&S, networking, storage, and virtualization teams for end-to-end coherence.

Skills

HPC/grid computing

Architecture leadership

Linux (RHEL/CentOS)

Python scripting

Cloud/hybrid infrastructure

CI/CD tooling

Stakeholder management

Observability tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Altair Grid Engine

Altair Accelerator

IBM LSF

SLURM

Terraform

Ansible

GitLab CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Siemens Digital Industries Software is seeking a Grid Operations Architect to own the architectural vision for scaling a global HPC grid. You will lead the migration from AGE to Accelerator, design future grid topologies, and drive modernization across 18+ grids with 9+ clusters.

A seasoned leader will coordinate capacity planning and governance, while aligning with cross-functional teams to ensure reliability and performance.