Sr. High Performance Computing (HPC) Systems Engineer
Hawthorne · USD 165,000-265,000 · 5+ years experience · Posted Sep 23, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Location
- Hawthorne
- Salary
- USD 165,000-265,000 · Base salary
About the role
- SpaceX is looking for a Sr. High Performance Computing (HPC) Systems Engineer to join the HPC team and support SpaceX personnel and proprietary systems.
Responsibilities
- Administer and manage HPC clusters, storage systems, and high-speed networks
- Provide application support to SpaceX employees across engineering disciplines
- Install and integrate Linux-based compute clusters
- Write instructional documentation and convey highly technical ideas in non-technical terms
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or scientific discipline and 5+ years of systems engineering experience; OR 7+ years of professional experience building software in lieu of a degree
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with client and server hardware/software, management tools, enterprise networking, virtualization, and security technologies
- Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed
- Applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, Refugee, Asylee, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State to conform to U.S. Government export regulations
Preferred qualifications
- 5+ years of professional experience building, deploying and troubleshooting Linux systems
- Experience with a scripting language (Bash, Python) to automate and solve reoccurring tasks
- Experience building, deploying and troubleshooting HPC clusters
- Familiarity with cluster resource managers (Slurm, PBS, LSF)
- Experience with monitoring and alerting technologies (Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios)
- Familiarity with scientific and engineering computing (CFD, FEA)
- Familiarity with large scale AI training
- Familiarity with GPU usage in a compute cluster and Cuda
Benefits
- Long-term incentives in the form of company stock or long-term cash awards
- Potential discretionary bonuses
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Short and long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Paid vacation (3 weeks)
- Paid holidays (10 or more per year)
Skills
- Bash
- Python
- Slurm
- PBS
- LSF
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Nagios
- Cuda
- Docker
- Podman
- Singularity
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- Puppet
- Ansible
- Kubernetes
