Staff HPC Systems Software Engineer

About Nscale

Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI, providing cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers.

About the Role

We're hiring a Staff HPC Systems Software Engineer to define the technical direction and evolution of a core HPC platform domain at Nscale, shaping how multiple teams build, automate, and run Slurm-based capabilities within Nscale's wider cloud-native platform.

What You'll Be Doing

Domain Architecture & Technical Direction

• Own and evolve the technical direction for a defined HPC systems domain, such as Slurm platform architecture, scheduler integrations, and cluster lifecycle.
• Make architectural decisions that balance software quality, operational realities, and long-term maintainability.
• Act as the technical escalation point for the most complex issues within the domain.

Cross-Team Engineering Leverage

Establish shared patterns for automation, service lifecycle management, and reliability across the HPC platform, driving cross-team design for integrations between Slurm, Kubernetes-adjacent systems, and infrastructure APIs.

About You

• Extensive experience designing and building production software and automation for HPC systems, especially Slurm-based environments.
• Strong track record writing maintainable, testable and resilient software in Go, Python or similar languages.
• Strong practical understanding of GPU-backed infrastructure and HPC networking, including InfiniBand, RoCE, RDMA.