Senior HPC Cluster Engineer
NVIDIA Santa Clara, CA Full-time 3/17/2026 $152,000 - $287,500 a year
Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
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•FY 2025Job Description
NVIDIA is seeking a highly skilled HPC Cluster Engineer to design, deploy, and operate GPU Compute Clusters for EDA and high-performance computing workloads. The role involves collaborating with researchers and infrastructure teams to ensure the clusters are performant, scalable, and reliable.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field or equivalent experience.
- Minimum of 5 years of proven experience crafting and operating large scale compute infrastructure, including cluster configuration management tools such as BCM or Ansible.
- Experience with AI/HPC job schedulers and orchestrators, such as Slurm, LSF, PBS or K8s.
- Proficient in using Linux including Rocky/Centos/RHEL and/or Ubuntu Linux distributions.
- Proficiency in Python and Bash.
- Experience analyzing and tuning performance for a variety of EDA workloads.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Responsibilities
- Develop and enhance our ecosystem around GPU-accelerated computing including developing scalable automation solutions.
- Continuously improve infrastructure provisioning, management, observability and day to day operation through automation.
- Provide technical leadership and strategic guidance for managing large-scale HPC systems.
- Foster strong customer and multi-functional partnerships to ensure consistent cluster support.
- Support our researchers to run their EDA workloads including performance analysis and optimizations.
- Conduct root cause analysis and suggest corrective action.
- Build innovative tooling to accelerate researchers' velocity, debugging and software performance at scale.
Benefits
- Employees at NVIDIA are often offered comprehensive, day-one benefits—including medical, dental, and vision coverage with HSA support, life and disability insurance, an Employee Assistance Program, and a 401(k) with auto-enrollment. Many roles also have generous time off and holidays, donation matching (up to $10,000), and a wide menu of extras like FSAs, commuter benefits, legal and identity-theft protection, pet insurance, and wellness discounts. Optional programs can include student-loan and home-purchase support, plus family care resources and expert medical services.
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