Staff HPC Engineer New Long Beach, California, United States

Vast Space Llc.; Long Beach (CA); In loco; USD 171.000 - 243.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Medical insurance

Dental and vision

Paid time off

401(k)

Equity

Meal perks

Descrizione del lavoro

Vast Space Llc. is hiring a Staff HPC Infrastructure Engineer in Long Beach to build and maintain advanced HPC infrastructure for space-station design and analysis.

You will partner with engineering teams to deliver scalable compute, storage, and GPU resources, ensuring reliability and performance for critical mission milestones. The role requires 8+ years in HPC, strong SLURM and Linux expertise, and experience with aerospace analyses.

Competenze

• 8+ years of HPC administration and architecture experience.
• Experience supporting HPC clusters for Aerospace or related industry.
• Deep understanding of SLURM and Linux.
• Experience shaping architecture with engineering teams to accelerate analysis.
• Led technical initiatives from concept to deployment.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, math, engineering, or equivalent work experience.

Mansioni

• Build, support, and architect Vast’s HPC infrastructure.
• Design and implement enhancements to improve performance and cost.
• Provide support to engineering teams using HPC for analysis.
• Own lifecycle—updates, patching, maintenance, reliability.
• Integrate HPC with NX/Teamcenter and post-processing.
• Onboard new applications and users to HPC environment.

Conoscenze

HPC administration

SLURM

Linux

Engineering collaboration

Production deployment

Bachelor’s degree

Python scripting

Floor plans reading

Communication

Multi-priority management

Formazione

Bachelor’s degree in computer science / IT / math / engineering

Strumenti

AWS ParallelCluster

Terraform

Puppet

AWS/Azure/GCP

Nastran

Abaqus

Ansys

STAR-CCM

Wave6

Virtualization

Descrizione del lavoro

Vast is developing next-generation space stations and space infrastructure using an incremental, hardware-rich, and low-cost approach. Vast is rapidly developing its multi-module Haven Station to ensure a continuous human presence in space for America and its allies, enabling advanced microgravity research and manufacturing, and unlocking a new space economy for government, corporate, and private customers. Haven Demo’s 2025 success made Vast the only operational commercial space station company to fly and operate its own spacecraft. Next, Haven-1 is expected to become the world’s first commercial space station when it launches in 2027, followed by additional Haven modules. Additionally, the company recently announced Vast Satellite, a high-power satellite product line leveraging its space station components and the heritage of Haven Demo.

Headquartered in Long Beach, California, and with more than 1,000 employees and over a billion dollars in private capital, Vast has built the facilities required to manufacture and operate America’s next space station. The company plans to develop future habitats and systems for the Moon and Mars, dedicated space stations for government partners, and other crewed systems that will unlock the expanding long-term space economy.

Vast is looking for a Staff HPC Infrastructure Engineer, reporting to the Manager, IT Infrastructure to support the development of the systems that will be required for the design and build of artificial-gravity human-rated space stations.

This will be a full-time, exempt position located in our Long Beach location.

Responsibilities

• Build, support, and architect Vast’s high-performance compute (HPC) infrastructure
• Design and implement enhancements to the HPC environment including new features to improve performance, ease of use, and cost optimization
• Provide support to the engineering teams who use HPC for their analysis
• Own the lifecycle of Vast’s HPC infrastructure, including cluster updates, patching, maintenance, performance, and reliability
• Integrate the HPC environment with Vast’s broader engineering design cycle including upstream design in NX/Teamcenter and post-processing
• Manage process for onboarding new applications and users to the HPC environment

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of HPC administration and architecture or relevant industry experience
• Experience supporting HPC clusters for Aerospace or a related industry, including structural, dynamic, mechanical, computational fluid dynamic analyses
• Deep understanding of SLURM and Linux
• Experience working with engineering organizations to shape architecture and administration of HPC systems to accelerate engineering analysis
• Proven track record of leading technical initiatives from concept through production deployment
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, math, engineering, or equivalent work experience

Preferred Skills & Experience

• AWS Parallel Cluster for HPC
• Infrastructure/configuration as code frameworks including Terraform and Puppet
• Cloud infrastructure experience in AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Expert in Nastran, Abaqus, Ansys, STAR-CCM, Wave6 analysis software
• Experience building on-premise HPC environments, including virtualization layers and underlying hardware (compute, storage, networking, and GPU infrastructure)
• Proficiency in Python or an equivalent scripting language
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment
• Ability to make independent judgments with limited information
• Communication skills for relaying data (verbally and in writing) between other employees, vendors, and customers
• Logical and strategic approach to solving problems
• Ability to read and understand basic floor plans
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt to changes in strategic direction

Additional Requirements

• Willingness to work overtime and/ or weekends to support critical mission milestones

Pay Range: California

$171,000 - $243,000 USD

We calibrate level and compensation to the selected candidate's experience and demonstrated capability. We welcome applicants across a range of experience levels to apply.

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