Senior HPC Systems Engineer — Secure Hybrid GPU Clusters

Parallel Works

Chicago (IL)

Hybrid

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, vision, dental coverage

401(k) with company match

Short term disability

Generous paid vacation and sick time

Job summary

Parallel Works seeks a Senior HPC Systems Engineer to build and run production Slurm clusters and oversee GPU nodes across on-prem and cloud environments. You will handle bare metal provisioning, network and firmware tasks, and ensure secure, scalable operation for defense and research programs.

The role is senior and involves triage escalations, mentoring junior engineers, and contributing to automation with Ansible or Terraform. U.S.

Qualifications

10+ years operating production Linux systems across multiple distributions.
Experience with SLURM and high-throughput HPC environments.
Experience with on-prem hardware, GPU clusters, and fabric networks.
Proficiency in Bash and Python scripting for automation.
Familiarity with DevOps IaC tools (Ansible, Terraform).
Security hardening and compliance in government or enterprise settings.

Responsibilities

Cluster operations: build and run production Slurm clusters with proper accounting and QoS.
Hybrid federation: connect customer clusters to the control plane and align site schedulers.
On-prem hardware: bare metal provisioning, out-of-band management, firmware, networking.
GPU and fabric: validate GPU nodes, driver stacks, NCCL tuning, InfiniBand checks.
Storage and automation: optimize storage throughput and develop reproducible pipelines.
Security and escalation: STIG hardening, cryptography, Tier 3 escalations.