HPC Systems Engineer

Location: Hybrid in Boulder, Colorado, United States; hybrid staff are expected to work on-site approximately 3 days per week. Occasional travel to the NCAR Wyoming Supercomputing Center in Cheyenne, Wyoming is required for system installation, upgrades, and troubleshooting.

Salary: $68,040–$85,050 per year.

Company

hirify.global is a university corporation supporting atmospheric research through NCAR and its high-performance computing infrastructure.

What you will do

• Provide systems engineering and technical support for high-performance computing, storage, archival, networking, and data-transfer systems.
• Install, integrate, maintain, administer, upgrade, and troubleshoot multi-vendor hardware and software systems.
• Operate and monitor petascale computational systems, scheduling environments, high-speed networks, storage systems, and related services.
• Diagnose failed hardware and resolve system issues with HPC staff, vendors, operations teams, and users.
• Develop technical specifications for RFPs, RFIs, and RFQs and contribute to organizational reports, planning, and technical presentations.
• Participate in a periodic 24x7 on-call rotation and provide advanced 7x24 troubleshooting support.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a computer-related or engineering field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience, such as an associate degree and four years of relevant work experience.
• Experience with Linux, including networking, storage, performance, installation, and management in a Linux-based supercomputer environment.
• Experience with Linux scripting and at least one higher-level programming language; skill with multiple operating systems, scripting, and programming languages.
• Experience with job scheduling systems such as PBS or SLURM.
• Experience with clustered file systems such as Spectrum Scale or Lustre, and clustered system management tools and techniques.
• Experience with at least one HPC storage type, including block, object, cloud, or tape storage.
• Experience with version control, configuration management, and disaster recovery for single-image systems and clusters.
• Ability to work with HPC and HPS networking, high-performance interconnects, security, and hardware and software integration.
• Ability to travel occasionally to the NCAR Wyoming Supercomputer Center and participate in a periodic 24x7 on-call rotation.

Nice to have

• Experience with system deployment, monitoring, resource control, statistical data gathering, data transfer, data management, data archiving, cloud services, network services, performance tuning, and benchmarking.
• Experience operating and monitoring HPC systems and related hardware, diagnosing anomalous behavior, repairing failed hardware, and resolving user and vendor issues.
• Experience preparing HPC activity reports, presenting to internal or external user groups, participating in supercomputing conferences, and contributing to organizational planning.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with approximately three on-site days per week.
• Medical, dental, vision, disability, retirement, leave, and employee assistance programs.
• hirify.global contributes 10% of base salary to the retirement plan.
• At least 20 days of annual paid time off, 10 paid holidays, and 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Tuition assistance and eligibility for Public Service Loan Forgiveness.
• Background checks and/or federal screenings are conducted for selected candidates; all roles require compliance with U.S. export control regulations and work location requirements.

Hiring process

• Submit a questionnaire and resume/CV by 12:00 a.m. MST at the start of the application deadline on November 7, 2026.
• Supplemental questionnaire answers may be requested in lieu of a cover letter and are evaluated alongside the resume.