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Classified Systems Engineer

Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)Full-time$129k2026-10-16 → 2026-11-10
Security clearance required

Core

Build and maintain scalable, hybrid High Performance Computing (HPC) architectures spanning on-premise and cloud environments for defense and military applications.

Role type

Senior IC Systems Engineer (HPC)

Builds

Next-generation computational, networking, and storage capabilities for enterprise HPC clusters

Domain

Defense technology / High Performance Computing

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Linux OS administration, HPC architecture design, HPC cluster operations, secure multi-tenant implementation, HPC technology evaluation, DevSecOps processes, CI/CD pipeline maintenance, requirements gathering, vendor evaluation, technical documentation

Preferred skills

Container orchestration (Kubernetes), HPC network technologies (RoCEv2, InfiniBand), bare-metal systems provisioning, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), parallel programming (MPI, OpenMP), NIST SP 800-53 controls implementation

Technologies

Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Lustre, GPFS, PBSPro, SLURM, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, MPI, OpenMP

Responsibilities

Build and maintain scalable, hybrid HPC architectures; Support day-to-day operations of existing HPC cluster systems; Implement and test secure multi-tenant capabilities; Evaluate and test new HPC technologies; Support DevSecOps processes and maintain CI/CD pipelines; Work with business lines to gather requirements; Contribute to HPC requirements documentation and vendor evaluation; Create and maintain training materials and runbooks

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC