HPC Systems Engineer (Linux/Slurm)

TL;DR

HPC Systems Engineer (Linux/Slurm): Owning the reliability, performance, and operability of high-performance computing environments with an accent on Slurm-based cluster management and automation. Focus on building stable scheduling, optimizing job throughput, and implementing repeatable configuration for research and ML workloads.

Location: Remote

Company

hirify.global focuses on the reliability and performance of high-performance computing environments for researchers and engineers.

What you will do

• Operate and evolve Slurm clusters, managing partitions, QoS, fair-share policies, and job accounting.
• Administer Linux cluster nodes, including provisioning, patching, and lifecycle maintenance across heterogeneous hardware.
• Automate infrastructure and configuration management using Ansible to standardize golden images and node workflows.
• Troubleshoot performance and reliability issues across compute, storage (Lustre/GPFS/NFS), and networking.
• Own monitoring and observability stacks using Prometheus and Grafana to define SLOs and on-call playbooks.
• Collaborate with research and ML teams to translate workload requirements into capacity plans and queue policies.

Requirements

• 3–7 years of experience administering production Linux systems in multi-node environments.
• Hands-on experience operating and supporting Slurm in an HPC or research/engineering compute setting.
• Strong Linux fundamentals: systemd, networking, storage, and security hardening.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Bash and/or Python.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools to support capacity planning and uptime.
• Ability to work in a ticketed/on-call environment and conduct root-cause analysis for incidents.

Nice to have

• Experience with InfiniBand/RDMA and parallel filesystems (e.g., Lustre, BeeGFS).
• Knowledge of HPC containers such as Apptainer or Singularity.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and CI practices using Terraform and Git.