HPC Infrastructure Engineer

Insight Softmax is hiring an HPC Infrastructure Engineer for its engineering team. The team designs and builds CFD (computational fluid dynamics) and simulation services. This role is for someone with a background in building and maintaining high-performance computing services, knowledge of distributed systems, and an interest in systems engineering, scaling, and storage architecture.

The work sits inside the company's skunkworks team. The exact nature and purpose of the projects is confidential, but they touch HPC, ML, Simulation, and Quantum swimlanes. The HPC team is building CFD services and architecture that will integrate directly with ML and Simulation services.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain high-performance computing infrastructure.
• Develop and implement scalable distributed systems for complex computing tasks.
• Scale services and systems from smaller deployments of about 50 nodes into larger clusters of 250+ nodes.
• Work with orchestration, configuration management, virtualization, Linux, CLI, deploy tools, monitoring, and APM.
• Monitor HPC systems performance and make improvements to ensure scalability and efficiency.
• Balance feature development, product quality, and service reliability in engineering and deliverables.
• Work closely with development teams to design, implement, and optimize HPC solutions.

What they are looking for

• At least 3-5 years of experience in HPC infrastructure, systems engineering, or a similar role.
• Strong understanding of systems engineering principles and scaling strategies.
• Deep knowledge of at least one of AWS, GCP, or Azure. AWS is preferred.
• Strong Linux skills.
• Experience with data architecture and large-scale data processing.

Optional experience and skills

• HPC CFD experience.
• Scaling services and systems from single-region clusters into multi-regional deployments.
• Experience with clusters of greater than 100 nodes.
• Building on-prem systems (on-premise, data center, rack-n-stack).
• Distributing workloads onto both cloud and on-prem systems.
• Balancing business needs, product delivery dates, and customer satisfaction.

Bonus experience and skills

• Backend work such as SQL, API development, and serverless.
• Software engineering.
• Python and/or other programming languages.
• Generating innovative products and features and ensuring a good customer experience.
• Using Linux as your primary desktop workstation environment.

Attributes they value

• Transparency
• Grit
• Effectiveness
• Willingness to learn

How the team works

The infrastructure team needs people focused on delivery and results, hungry to learn, able to adapt, and comfortable in an environment where you will not be given all the training or instructions to get your deliverables done. You will be given top-level engineering goals and milestones, and you are responsible for figuring out and delivering what is required to get there. People with startup experience may be more comfortable in this position. Senior-level individuals often bring needed experience, but the company is open to less-experienced individuals with attributes that suit the team culture.

Depending on engineering objectives, priorities, and team member skill sets, team members may be swapped between responsibilities in the future, or the team may all work together to finish one project more quickly. You may have the opportunity to work on other projects outside of HPC, such as ML, Simulation, or Quantum.

Location and hours

• Part time position; hours vary based on project needs.
• Remote work environment.
• 80% of your work schedule will be during the business time zones for Latin America and Canada.
• Some customer meetings will occur each week at non-standard or nighttime hours, as the company currently supports a global team across 3-4 continents.

References

3 references will be required.