CareerPlan

Senior System Software Engineer - Scientific Computing PaaS

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$184k–$288k2026-10-09 → 2026-11-14

Core

Design, build, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure and services for physics-based numerical simulations, AI training/inference, and data-intensive scientific workflows.

Role type

Senior System Software Engineer (Scientific Computing PaaS)

Builds

Cloud-native distributed compute platforms, I/O infrastructure, and orchestration systems for physics and simulation applications.

Domain

Cloud Computing, Distributed Systems, High-Performance Computing (HPC), Scientific Simulation

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Distributed systems & parallel processing, Compiled languages (Go, Rust, C++), Cloud architecture, System design & algorithmic thinking, Debugging (process, threads, memory, I/O), Heterogeneous computing (CPU/GPU)

Preferred skills

AI platform deployment on HPC, Hardware/OS/kernel tuning, Third-party source code optimization

Technologies

MPI, NCCL, Microservices, DL Frameworks, Kubernetes (implied by orchestration), Cloud providers

Responsibilities

Design services and own underlying cloud infrastructure for scientific workflows; Design novel algorithms and optimize system performance across the stack; Design, build, deploy, and operate scalable I/O infrastructure; Optimize compute, storage, and network architecture for physics applications.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC