Sr. High Performance Computing (HPC) Systems Engineer Verified today
Sr. High Performance Computing (HPC) Systems Engineer
SpaceX is looking for an HPC Systems Engineer to join the HPC team and support SpaceX personnel and systems. You will thrive in a fast-paced, challenging environment where you take ownership of mission-critical infrastructure.
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
Preferred Skills and Experience
- 5+ years of professional experience building, deploying and troubleshooting Linux systems
- Experience with scripting languages (Bash, Python) to automate and solve recurring 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
- Experience with Kubernetes
Additional Requirements
- Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed
Compensation
Level 3: $165,000 to $265,000 per year. Actual level and base salary determined case-by-case based on job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience.
Base salary is one part of total rewards. Eligible employees may receive long-term incentives in the form of company stock or long-term cash awards, discretionary bonuses, and ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage; 401(k) retirement plan; short and long-term disability insurance; life insurance; paid parental leave. Accrual of 3 weeks of paid vacation and 10 or more paid holidays per year. Paid sick leave accrues per Company policy.
ITAR Requirements
To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.