Vast
Staff HPC Infrastructure Engineer
$171K–$243K
Long Beach, California, United States · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 17, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of HPC administration and architecture or relevant industry experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, math, or engineering, or equivalent work experience.
About the job
Build and operate Vast’s high-performance computing infrastructure to support engineering analysis for human-rated space station development.
What you'll do
- Architect, build, maintain, and improve HPC infrastructure, including performance, reliability, updates, and cost optimization.
- Support engineering teams using HPC and integrate the environment with design workflows, including NX/Teamcenter and post-processing.
- Manage onboarding of HPC applications and users.
What they ask for
- 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, or computational fluid dynamic analyses.
- Deep understanding of SLURM and Linux.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, math, or engineering, or equivalent work experience; proven ability to lead technical initiatives from concept through production deployment.
Nice to have
- AWS Parallel Cluster for HPC; infrastructure/configuration as code frameworks including Terraform and Puppet.
- Cloud infrastructure experience in AWS, Azure, or GCP; proficiency in Python or an equivalent scripting language.
Pay
$171,000 — $243,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
SLURM, Linux, NX/Teamcenter, AWS Parallel Cluster, Terraform, Puppet, AWS, Azure
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