Staff HPC Systems Engineer — Slurm Platform Lead (GPU Cloud)

Greenhouse Software, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 225,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Nscale is hiring a Staff HPC Systems Software Engineer to define the technical direction and evolution of a core HPC platform domain. You will shape multi-team efforts to build, automate, and operate Slurm-based capabilities within a cloud-native platform.

This high-impact role requires deep hands-on software engineering, strong systems judgment, and the ability to drive architecture across teams while ensuring robust, maintainable HPC services in GPU-backed infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and building production software and automation for HPC systems, especially Slurm-based environments.
• Strong track record of writing maintainable, testable, and resilient software in Go, Python, or similar languages.
• Proven ability to define technical direction across a domain spanning multiple teams or services.
• Strong understanding of Slurm internals, scheduler behaviour, cluster lifecycle concerns, and operational trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the technical direction for a defined HPC systems domain, such as Slurm platform architecture, scheduler integrations, cluster lifecycle, workload environments, or service automation.
• Define how proven Slurm implementations should be packaged, automated, and exposed as a service.
• Establish shared patterns and standards for automation, service lifecycle management, observability, reliability, and supportability across the HPC platform.
• Lead technically critical initiatives spanning 2–4 teams or a defined HPC platform area.

Skills

HPC systems design

Slurm-based environments

Go/Python development

Platform orchestration

Kubernetes integration

Tools

Slurm

Kubernetes

Job description

Nscale is hiring a Staff HPC Systems Software Engineer to define the technical direction and evolution of a core HPC platform domain. You will shape multi-team efforts to build, automate, and operate Slurm-based capabilities within a cloud-native platform.

This high-impact role requires deep hands-on software engineering, strong systems judgment, and the ability to drive architecture across teams while ensuring robust, maintainable HPC services in GPU-backed infrastructure.