Senior HPC Systems Engineer: Scale AI Clusters

SpaceX; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health, vision and dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Paid vacation and holidays

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking an Senior HPC Systems Engineer to administer HPC clusters, storage systems, and networking, providing cross‑disciplinary support and building out Linux compute environments.

The role emphasizes experience with cluster management, scripting for automation (Bash, Python), and familiarity with modern HPC tools and GPU/CUDA usage, across a fast-paced aerospace setting with ITAR considerations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or scientific discipline; 5+ years of systems engineering experience or 7+ years of software building experience in lieu of a degree.

Responsibilities

• Administer HPC clusters, storage systems, and high-speed networks.
• Provide application support to SpaceX personnel across engineering disciplines.
• Install and integrate Linux-based compute clusters.
• Write instructional documentation and convey highly technical ideas in non-technical terms.

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or scientific discipline

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Podman

Singularity

Puppet

Ansible

Slurm

PBS

LSF

Prometheus

Grafana

Nagios

CUDA

GPU usage

Containers

Job description

SpaceX is seeking an Senior HPC Systems Engineer to administer HPC clusters, storage systems, and networking, providing cross‑disciplinary support and building out Linux compute environments.

The role emphasizes experience with cluster management, scripting for automation (Bash, Python), and familiarity with modern HPC tools and GPU/CUDA usage, across a fast-paced aerospace setting with ITAR considerations.