Senior R&D Engineer

Summary / Role Purpose  

The Senior R&D Engineer is responsible for the deployment and maintenance of cloud-based HPC infrastructure. In this role, the Senior R&D Engineer will use advanced technical and problem-solving skills to help the team tackle complex issues, satisfy customer requirements, and accomplish development objectives. 

Key Duties and Responsibilities 

• Deploys, configures, and maintains cloud-based HPC infrastructure 

• Implement and manage automation for infrastructure using IaC tools such as Terraform, Spacelift, Helm, etc. 

• Manage cluster lifecycle including scaling, upgrades, patching, and monitoring for SLURM and Kubernetes based clusters 

• Monitors and responds to HPC issues 

• Works with observability tools like Datadog to improve response time to issues and outages 

• Develop and maintain internal documentation, operational runbooks, and support playbooks 

• Works independently with minimal supervision and may take on some planning and mentoring responsibilities 

• May be responsible for managing interns or co-ops but typically does not have direct reports 

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements and Experience 

• BS in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 5 years’ experience, MS with 3 years’ experience, or PhD with 1 year experience  

• Commercial experience with software design and development methodologies 

Preferred Qualifications and Skills 

• Passion for crafting robust and efficient code in Golang or Python 

• Experience delivering high-quality products in a large-scale commercial software development environment 

• Strong Linux system administration skills and experience managing distributed systems at scale. 

• Excellent technical knowledge and commercial experience with IaC tools (e.g. Terraform, Spacelift, etc.) and HPC schedulers (e.g. SLURM, Kubernetes, etc.) 

• Good communication and interpersonal skills 

• Ability to work collaboratively in a geographically distributed team