Sr. HPC Systems Engineer (High Performance Computing)
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 an HPC Systems Engineer with strong knowledge and experience in a world class engineering organization.
- This employee will be a member of the HPC team and will 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 the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
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
- Company stock or long-term cash awards
- 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
- Paid holidays
Skills
- Linux
- Bash
- Python
- Slurm
- PBS
- LSF
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Nagios
- Cuda
- Docker
- Podman
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- Singularity
- Puppet
- Ansible
