Senior HPC Engineer for Space AI & GPU Compute

The Aerospace Corporation; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care plans

401(k) matching

Relocation assistance

Education assistance

Paid time off

Telework options

Professional development

Job summary

The Aerospace Corporation seeks an experienced HPC Engineer (Site Reliability Engineer Staff III/IV) to join our Computational Services team at our El Segundo, CA or Chantilly, VA facility.

You’ll develop, implement, and optimize HPC clusters that span on-premises and cloud environments, working closely with rocket scientists and engineers to support mission-critical technical analysis for national space assets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of Linux system administration in an enterprise HPC environment.
• Experience with compilers, mod & sim tools, languages, COTS, GOTs; including environment modules.
• In-depth knowledge of Linux, networking, and HPC systems.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps.
• Proven experience with Slurm and HPC workloads (interactive and batch).
• Experience provisioning AI & NVIDIA GPU technologies (CUDA).

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with scientists and engineers on mission-critical analysis.
• Lead cross-functional teams and mentor junior engineers.
• Design and implement HPC solutions for diverse workloads.
• Manage on-premise and cloud-enabled HPC clusters.
• Develop automation and IaC solutions using Clush and GitOps.

Skills

Linux administration

Slurm scheduler

GitOps

Clush

CUDA

Environment modules

Scripting

Automation tools

Kubernetes integration

Education

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

Tools

AWS ParallelCluster

Open OnDemand

XDMod

Lustre

Job description

The Aerospace Corporation seeks an experienced HPC Engineer (Site Reliability Engineer Staff III/IV) to join our Computational Services team at our El Segundo, CA or Chantilly, VA facility.

You’ll develop, implement, and optimize HPC clusters that span on-premises and cloud environments, working closely with rocket scientists and engineers to support mission-critical technical analysis for national space assets.