Staff HPC Systems Software Engineer

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. This is a high-impact staff-level role for someone who combines deep hands-on software engineering with strong systems judgement.

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

Benefits

• Highly competitive US compensation package (base + bonus + equity)
• Performance reviews every 12 months
• Dynamic progression plan tailored to your ambitions
• Human-First Flexibility: We treat you as humans first
• Equal Opportunities Statement
• Medical, dental, vision, flexible paid time off, parental leave, and retirement plan participation