Staff HPC Systems Software Engineer
Nscale — United Kingdom · Remote · Staff+
Role description
Role Overview
We're hiring a Staff HPC Systems Software Engineer to define the technical direction and evolution of a core HPC platform domain at Nscale. In this role, you will operate beyond a single team, shaping how multiple teams build, automate, and run Slurm-based capabilities within Nscale’s wider cloud-native platform.
What You Will Do
Domain Architecture & Technical Direction, Cross-Team Engineering Leverage, Delivery, Reliability & Influence
Why It Might Be a Fit
Extensive experience designing and building production software and automation for HPC systems, especially Slurm-based environments. Strong track record of writing maintainable, testable and resilient software in Go, Python or similar languages.
Requirements
- Extensive experience designing and building production software and automation for HPC systems, especially Slurm-based environments.
- Strong track record of writing maintainable, testable and resilient software in Go, Python or similar languages.
- Proven ability to define technical direction across a domain spanning multiple teams or services.
- Strong understanding of Slurm internals, scheduler behaviour, cluster lifecycle concerns and operational trade offs.
- Strong practical understanding of GPU-backed infrastructure and HPC networking, including InfiniBand, RoCE, RDMA and performance sensitive workload characteristics.
- Experience integrating HPC systems with cloud-native platforms, APIs, or service delivery models.
- Experience creating engineering leverage through standards, reusable patterns, shared tooling and architectural clarity.
- Strong judgement in balancing short-term delivery with long-term platform health and supportability.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to align multiple teams around a coherent technical direction.
- Experience with other schedulers or batch systems such as Kueue is valuable.
Benefits
- Opportunity to shape the operating standards behind a next-generation AI cloud platform
- Real ownership and impact on complex infrastructure challenges
- Chance to play a meaningful role in scaling high-performance, sustainable data centre operations