Senior HPC Software & Systems Architect

Location: Milpitas, California, USA; onsite role

Salary: $186,200–$273,067 annually

Company

hirify.global develops inspection tools, metrology systems, process solutions, and computational analytics for semiconductor manufacturing and advanced electronics.

What you will do

• Design enterprise-scale HPC platforms for semiconductor manufacturing, AI workloads, computational lithography, metrology, inspection, and distributed data processing.
• Define compute, networking, storage, virtualization, GPU acceleration, workload orchestration, and cloud integration strategies.
• Architect distributed software services, APIs, automation frameworks, configuration management, and observability solutions.
• Lead modernization across Linux, containers, cloud-native platforms, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and DevOps practices.
• Lead architecture and design reviews, mentor engineers, and establish coding, deployment, performance, and operational standards.
• Define the HPC roadmap, evaluate emerging technologies, and coordinate strategy across software, systems, manufacturing, operations, field organizations, product management, and business leadership.

Requirements

• Doctorate with 5 years, Master's degree with 8 years, or Bachelor's degree with 12–15 years of related work experience.
• Expert Linux knowledge, including RHEL, Rocky, AlmaLinux, Ubuntu, and SUSE.
• Experience with SGE, SLURM, Kubernetes, distributed computing, NUMA optimization, MPI concepts, and GPU workload scheduling.
• Knowledge of NVIDIA GPU ecosystems, high-speed Ethernet, RDMA, NVMe, parallel file systems, and NAS/NFS architectures.
• Experience with VMware, Proxmox, KVM, containers, Python, C++, Bash, Git, CI/CD, Ansible, and infrastructure automation.
• Background in service-oriented design, scalability, reliability, high availability, disaster recovery, capacity modeling, and performance benchmarking.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with medical, dental, vision, life, and other benefits.
• 401(k) with company matching and employee stock purchase program.
• Paid time off, company holidays, and family care and bonding leave.
• Tuition reimbursement, student debt assistance, financial planning, wellness, and career development programs.
• Responsible use of AI is emphasized, and AI or recording tools are not permitted during interviews unless approved or invited.