HPC Operations Engineer

As an HPC Operations Engineer at NVIDIA, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the flawless operation of our high-performance computing (HPC) environment.

You will provide first-line support for HPC users across scheduling, compute, storage, and access-related issues.

Key responsibilities include:

• Troubleshooting job failures, scheduler errors, resource constraints, and performance concerns
• Performing triage of infrastructure incidents and gathering diagnostics
• Monitoring system health, queues, node status, and service availability
• Completing established operational procedures for maintenance, patching, and configuration updates
• Developing and maintaining operational documentation, runbooks, and guidelines

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of experience supporting Linux-based production environments
• Solid Linux systems administration fundamentals (RHEL/CentOS and/or Ubuntu)
• Ability to troubleshoot technical issues methodically
• Experience interacting directly with users in a technical support or operations role
• Strong written communication skills

Preferred qualifications:

• Foundational scripting or automation experience (e.g., Bash or Python)
• Solid understanding of workload schedulers such as LSF, Slurm, or similar systems
• Strong grasp of network computing supporting infrastructure (NFS, automounter, LDAP)
• Experience supporting HPC or large-scale compute environments
• Familiarity with EDA workloads

NVIDIA offers highly competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package.