CareerPlan

HPC Performance Engineer

Bellevue, WAFull-time$165k2026-07-01 → 2026-11-10

Core

Design, develop, and optimize bare-metal HPC systems from POST through Kubernetes cluster integration, ensuring low-latency, high-throughput performance for AI workloads.

Role type

Senior HPC Performance Engineer (Systems)

Builds

Custom Linux kernels, OS images, virtualization stacks, and container runtimes for AI infrastructure

Domain

High-Performance Computing (HPC) / AI Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Linux internals, MPI workloads, distributed system performance analysis, RoCE/InfiniBand/GPUDirect, HPC benchmarking (HPCC/HPL/MLPerf-HPC), Python automation, systems debugging

Preferred skills

Golang, QA/QE best practices, cloud environments, open-source development, machine learning

Technologies

Linux Kernel, Ubuntu, Prometheus, Victoria Metrics, Grafana, Docker, Kubernetes, KubeVirt, containerd, InfiniBand, RoCE, Nvidia GPUs

Responsibilities

Develop tools for systems performance baselines; maintain performance regression analysis testing automation; debug and tune fabric-level performance; develop telemetry for distributed clusters; triage and fix Linux performance issues; define OS requirements and system architecture for performance

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC