Staff HPC Infrastructure Engineer

Vast is looking for a Staff HPC Infrastructure Engineer, reporting to the Manager, IT Infrastructure to support the development of the systems that will be required for the design and build of artificial-gravity human-rated space stations.

This will be a full-time, exempt position located in our Long Beach location.

Responsibilities:

Build, support, and architect Vast’s high-performance compute (HPC) infrastructure

Design and implement enhancements to the HPC environment including new features to improve performance, ease of use, and cost optimization

Provide support to the engineering teams who use HPC for their analysis

Own the lifecycle of Vast’s HPC infrastructure, including cluster updates, patching, maintenance, performance, and reliability

Integrate the HPC environment with Vast’s broader engineering design cycle including upstream design in NX/Teamcenter and post-processing

Manage process for onboarding new applications and users to the HPC environment

Minimum Qualifications:

8+ years of HPC administration and architecture or relevant industry experience

Experience supporting HPC clusters for Aerospace or a related industry, including structural, dynamic, mechanical, computational fluid dynamic analyses

Deep understanding of SLURM and Linux

Experience working with engineering organizations to shape architecture and administration of HPC systems to accelerate engineering analysis

Proven track record of leading technical initiatives from concept through production deployment

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, math, engineering,  or equivalent work experience

Preferred Skills & Experience:

AWS Parallel Cluster for HPC

Infrastructure/configuration as code frameworks including Terraform and Puppet

Cloud infrastructure experience in AWS, Azure, or GCP

Expert in Nastran, Abaqus, Ansys, STAR-CCM, Wave6 analysis software

Experience building on-premise HPC environments, including virtualization layers and underlying hardware (compute, storage, networking, and GPU infrastructure)

Proficiency in Python or an equivalent scripting language

Ability to work effectively in a team environment

Ability to make independent judgments with limited information

Communication skills for relaying data (verbally and in writing) between other employees, vendors, and customers

Logical and strategic approach to solving problems

Ability to read and understand basic floor plans

Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt to changes in strategic direction

Additional Requirements:

Willingness to work overtime and/ or weekends to support critical mission milestones

Pay Range: California

$171,000—$243,000 USD