Principal Site Reliability Engineer (Vehicle Engineering)
Core
Own the HPC shared compute platform (Linux machines, IaC, storage, apps) to enable vehicle/structures simulation, ML, and AI inference for rocket/satellite design.
Role type
Principal Site Reliability Engineer (HPC)
Builds
Shared HPC compute platform for vehicle and structures simulation, machine learning, and AI inference
Domain
Aerospace / High-Performance Computing
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Linux production operations, Infrastructure as Code, observability, automation scripting, capacity planning, Kubernetes administration, distributed storage management
Preferred skills
Prometheus/Grafana monitoring, Ansible/Puppet/Terraform, Python scripting, Docker/Podman/Singularity, Slurm/PBS schedulers, PyTorch/TensorFlow/CUDA workloads
Technologies
Linux, Terraform, Ansible, Python, Kubernetes, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana, Slurm, PyTorch, TensorFlow, CUDA
Responsibilities
Participate in on-call rotation and manage sustainable incident response; Manage node lifecycle via IaC (OS images, firmware, config, kernel/drivers); Build observability for cluster/node/storage health and job/workflow signals; Reduce toil by automating production operations; Lead capacity planning for compute and storage; Collaborate with HPC systems engineers and cross-disciplinary teams
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with strategic ownership
