Sr. High Performance Computing (HPC) Systems Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Administer and manage HPC clusters, storage systems, and high-speed networks
• Provide application support to SpaceX employees across engineering disciplines
• Install and integrate Linux-based compute clusters
• Write instructional documentation and convey highly technical ideas in non-technical terms
• BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or scientific discipline and 5+ years of systems engineering experience; OR 7+ years of professional experience building software in lieu of a degree
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with client and server hardware/software, management tools, enterprise networking, virtualization, and security technologies
• Experience with Kubernetes
• PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
• 5+ years of professional experience building, deploying and troubleshooting Linux systems
• Experience with a scripting language (Bash, Python) to automate and solve reoccurring tasks
• Experience building, deploying and troubleshooting HPC clusters
• Familiarity with cluster resource managers (Slurm, PBS, LSF)
• Experience with monitoring and alerting technologies (Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios)
• Familiarity with scientific and engineering computing (CFD, FEA)
• Familiarity with large scale AI training
• Familiarity with GPU usage in a compute cluster and Cuda
• Experience with containers (Docker, Podman, Singularity)
• Experience deploying and maintaining automated configuration management software (Puppet, Ansible)
• Comfortable working with mission critical and sensitive systems, with a sense of urgency appropriate to the responsibilities
• Eligibility for access to classified material up to TS/SCI with Polygraph
• ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
• Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed
• COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:
• Pay Range: Sr. HPC Systems Engineer: $165,000.00-$230,000.00/per year