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