Senior HPC Systems Engineer - Space-Grade GPU Fabric

Blue Origin; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 134,000 - 187,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Education Support Program

Job summary

Blue Origin in Huntsville, AL is seeking a hardware-leaning systems engineer to architect and build the nervous system of a large-scale orbital data center. You will own foundational hardware decisions for the high-speed interconnect fabric, from physical layer to software stack, and solve first-principles challenges such as radiation effects on fabric state and routing.

The role focuses on designing topology, leading hardware qualification, and collaborating with software teams to ensure

Qualifications

• BS in CS, EE or related field required.
• 8+ years in HPC networking, datacenter fabric design or GPU cluster engineering.
• Experience with high-speed GPU interconnects and radiation-tolerant fabric design.

Responsibilities

• Architect the GPU interconnect topology for a large-scale accelerator cluster.
• Own configuration, bring-up, and operation of fabric management software with multi-tenant policies.
• Lead hardware qualification of fabric switches for space environment and mitigate radiation effects.
• Optimize collective communications performance across the fabric (NCCL/RCCL).
• Collaborate with software teams to co-design topology with model parallelism strategies.
• Interface with platform software teams to manage fabric bring-up and integration.

Skills

HPC networking

Datacenter fabric

GPU interconnects

Fabric management

Radiation tolerance

NCCL RCCL

Education

Bachelor of Science in CS/EE

Master or PhD preferred

Tools

InfiniBand fabrics

Job description

Blue Origin in Huntsville, AL is seeking a hardware-leaning systems engineer to architect and build the nervous system of a large-scale orbital data center. You will own foundational hardware decisions for the high-speed interconnect fabric, from physical layer to software stack, and solve first-principles challenges such as radiation effects on fabric state and routing.

The role focuses on designing topology, leading hardware qualification, and collaborating with software teams to ensure