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Senior HPC Architect / HPC Program Lead

Santa Clara,CAFull-time$141k–$193k2026-10-30 → 2026-11-10

Core

Design, build, and optimize scalable High-Performance Computing (HPC) platforms for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments to support engineering simulation, AI/ML, and scientific workloads.

Role type

Senior HPC Architect / Technical Lead

Builds

Scalable HPC clusters, GPU-accelerated infrastructure, and cloud-native AI/ML platforms

Domain

Semiconductor manufacturing / High-Performance Computing / AI Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

HPC cluster design and administration, Linux system administration and performance tuning, Slurm workload scheduling, Cloud HPC solutions (Azure, AWS), Parallel file systems (Lustre, GPFS, BeeGFS, Weka), High-speed networking (InfiniBand, RDMA), GPU computing (NVIDIA, CUDA), MPI and parallel application environments, Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible), Python and Bash scripting

Preferred skills

CAE and CFD application support (Ansys, Siemens), Containerization for HPC (Apptainer, Singularity, Docker, Kubernetes), Cloud-native AI platforms and MLOps workflows, HPC security and compliance frameworks

Technologies

Slurm, Azure CycleCloud, Rescale, NVIDIA CUDA, Terraform, Ansible, InfiniBand, Lustre, GPFS, BeeGFS, Weka, Apptainer, Singularity, Docker, Kubernetes

Responsibilities

Design and optimize HPC clusters across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments; Translate HPC roadmaps into technical designs and implementation plans; Evaluate and run proof-of-concepts for new HPC, GPU, and cloud technologies; Work with engineering and AI/ML users to define workload requirements and conduct feasibility assessments; Design and support GPU-accelerated infrastructure for AI/ML training and inference; Implement and maintain cloud HPC solutions on Azure and AWS; Automate cluster provisioning using infrastructure-as-code; Act as the highest-level escalation point for complex HPC incidents; Perform performance tuning, benchmarking, and capacity analysis; Provide technical mentoring and conduct design reviews.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities