HPC Orchestration Architect
Core
Lead a team of domain-specialist architects to design, deliver, and optimize secure, scalable, and resilient high-performance computing (HPC) solutions for customers' research, production, and delivery workloads.
Role type
Manager of HPC Solutions Architecture (Strategic IC + Team Leadership)
Builds
Reference architectures, design blueprints, and reusable patterns for HPC and AI/ML workloads
Domain
High-Performance Computing (HPC), Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | client delivery
Required skills
HPC solutions architecture, technical team leadership, compute/storage/networking/security integration, GPU acceleration (CUDA/NVIDIA), workload schedulers (Armada/Slurm/Kubernetes), distributed storage (VAST/Lustre/GPFS), secure/compliant architecture design, customer-facing technical communication, solution adoption strategy
Preferred skills
HPC/AI/ML scale delivery, data/analytics platforms (Kafka/Spark), automation/DevOps (CI/CD, IaC), customer workshop facilitation, emerging compute technologies (InfiniBand/RDMA, container runtimes)
Technologies
Kubernetes, Armada, Slurm, VAST, Lustre, GPFS, CUDA, NVIDIA, Terraform, Ansible, GitLab, Jenkins, Kafka, Spark, InfiniBand, RDMA
Responsibilities
Lead and mentor a multi-disciplinary team of Solutions Architects; Act as strategic link between customers, team, and engineering; Build trusted advisor relationships with customers; Oversee creation of reference architectures and design blueprints; Guide proof-of-concept initiatives; Conduct technical design reviews and workload assessments; Recommend strategic design choices across compute, storage, networking, and security; Partner with product/engineering to shape platform roadmaps; Encourage prototyping of new architectural approaches for emerging workloads; Ensure high-quality documentation and best practices; Stay current with emerging technologies and guide client adoption; Represent organization at client workshops and industry events
Seniority
Manager, hands-on IC with team leadership