HPC Platform Engineer
summaHouston (TX)
About the role
Job Description
Title: HPC Platform Engineer
Location: Houston, TX (Hybrid, First 6 Months Onsite)
Duration: 6MO Contract-to-HireWork Requirements: Must be authorized to work in the U.S.
Summary:
We are partnering with a global high-performance computing and scientific software consulting firm seeking an HPC Platform Engineer to support enterprise energy clients in Houston. This is a consulting-style role where you will be employed by the consulting firm and deployed onsite to support large-scale HPC environments at major energy companies. This position focuses on building, optimizing, and supporting high-performance computing platforms used for complex engineering and scientific workloads.
Responsibilities:
- Administer and support HPC clusters in production environments
- Configure and tune job schedulers (Slurm preferred)
- Support distributed multi-node workloads (MPI)
- Install, upgrade, and maintain HPC infrastructure
- Configure and optimize parallel file systems (Lustre preferred)
- Support GPU and accelerated computing environments
- Monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues
- Manage Linux-based HPC environments
- Collaborate with engineering and scientific users
- Support HPC environment upgrades and improvements Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience 5+ years professional HPC experience
- Hands-on HPC cluster administration experience
- Linux systems administration experience (production environments)
- Experience configuring job schedulers (Slurm preferred)
- Experience supporting multi-node distributed workloads (MPI)
- Experience with HPC infrastructure components: Parallel file systems (Lustre preferred)
- High-speed interconnectsGPU / accelerated computing Preferred Qualifications
- Slurm configuration and tuning experience
- Lustre installation and upgradesHPC performance optimization experience
- Scripting experience (Python/Bash)
Experience with HPC automation tools Equal Employment Opportunity
Summa is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate with regard to employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by law.
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