Senior HPC Software Engineer (Python/C++) – Remote Options

AUI; Albuquerque (NM); Hybrid; USD 79,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Retirement plan

Health Insurance

Job summary

Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to design, implement, and optimize scientific software for large-scale HPC systems.

You will prototype and maintain data‑processing software and collaborate with scientists, systems engineers, and external HPC partners. You will develop high-performance C++ and Python components, build interfaces and tooling, and drive performance optimization across multi-core and distributed environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Develop high-performance scientific software in C++ and Python, including numerical algorithms, data-analysis pipelines, and simulation components.
• Build Python interfaces, bindings, and workflow tooling around high-performance C++ cores.
• Design modular, maintainable, and testable codebases following established software engineering best practices.
• Profile, benchmark, and optimize HPC applications for multi-core and distributed-memory systems.
• Improve algorithmic efficiency, memory usage, I/O patterns, and data‑movement behavior to achieve target throughput and scalability.
• Work with HPC system engineers to tune application performance for specific architectures.
• Create robust, automated workflows for large-scale simulations, experiments, or data‑processing tasks.
• Integrate software with HPC schedulers, containerization technologies, and workflow engines.
• Implement data ingestion, transformation, and storage strategies for multi‑terabyte to petabyte‑scale datasets.

Skills

Python

C++

Parallel computing

Performance profiling

Linux development

Version control

Build systems

Automated testing

Open-source software

Agile

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Applied Math

Ph.D. preferred

Tools

Linux environments

Version control systems

Build systems

Automated testing frameworks

Job description

Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to design, implement, and optimize scientific software for large-scale HPC systems.

You will prototype and maintain data‑processing software and collaborate with scientists, systems engineers, and external HPC partners. You will develop high-performance C++ and Python components, build interfaces and tooling, and drive performance optimization across multi-core and distributed environments.