# HPC Systems Administrator

**Company**: Helsing
**Location**: Munich
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Helsing is a defence AI company. Our mission is to protect our democracies.

As an HPC Systems Administrator based in Munich, you will take ownership of our high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure, ensuring that our team of simulation engineers remains unblocked, productive, and equipped to solve complex problems.

## Responsibilities

- Own the day-to-day administration of compute nodes, workload schedulers, parallel storage, high-speed interconnects, and licence servers

- Ensure the environment remains highly available and consistently performant through proactive monitoring, patching, firmware updates, and incident response

- Administer the workload scheduler (Slurm, PBS Pro, or similar), managing queues, fair-share policies, accounting, and quotas to optimise resource utilisation

- Manage the simulation software stack and user environments using tools such as Lmod, Spack, or EasyBuild

- Collaborate with hardware and software vendors to resolve support cases, process RMAs, and ensure upgrade quality

- Automate operational workflows using Bash, Python, and Ansible to improve system efficiency and reduce manual intervention

- Maintain the strict security posture required for cleared work and support ongoing compliance reviews

- Onboard users and maintain comprehensive documentation to empower engineers to self-serve

## Requirements

- Experience administering Linux systems within a production HPC or large shared compute environment

- Hands-on experience managing workload schedulers such as Slurm, PBS Pro, LSF, or similar

- Production experience with parallel filesystems (Lustre, BeeGFS, or GPFS) and high-speed interconnects (InfiniBand or RoCE)

- Scripting and automation skills with Bash, Python, and Ansible

- Experience managing commercial simulation software (CAE, CFD, or EM) and licence servers, including FlexLM

## Nice to Have

- Experience administering Altair or Siemens simulation suites

- Background working within classified or strictly regulated environments

- Expertise in GPU computing, including CUDA and NVIDIA toolchains, alongside MPI stack management

- Familiarity with HPC containers using Apptainer, Enroot, or Pyxis

- Experience with identity management systems such as Keycloak, FreeIPA, Active Directory, or Kerberos

- Competence in infrastructure-as-code practices using tools such as Terraform

## Benefits

- Competitive salary and VSOP options

- Relocation support: up to €2,500 and 4 weeks temporary accommodation

- Learning: €500/£450 yearly allowance

- Health & wellness: gym membership and mental health support (Nilo.health)

- Social: regularly company events and monthly social allowances

- Enhanced parental leave: 22 weeks fully paid for primary caregivers & 6 weeks for secondary caregivers

- Family support: 5 days of paid family emergency leave, 100% remote work option during pregnancy and phased return to work

## Skills

### Required
- Linux
- HPC
- Slurm
- PBS Pro
- Bash
- Python
- Ansible
- FlexLM

### Nice to have
- Altair
- Siemens
- GPU computing
- CUDA
- NVIDIA
- MPI
- Apptainer
- Enroot
- Pyxis
- Keycloak
- FreeIPA
- Active Directory
- Kerberos
- Terraform

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