Corvid Technologies is seeking an Junior HPC Systems Engineer with a strong background and enthusiasm for Linux to support our Linux based High Performance Computer consisting of 80,000 processor cores. If you enjoy learning, playing with hardware, optimizing performance, efficiency, and spend most of your time on the command line, this is the job for you.
This Candidate Will Be Responsible For The Following

• Supporting software installation and configuration of license management servers (e.g., FlexLM or RLM)
• Troubleshoot slow, hanging, or failing HPC jobs on internal or customer HPC clusters
• Automate repetitive tasks and implement custom solutions using scripting/programming languages such as bash or Python
• Learning to troubleshoot hardware and software issues on Linux servers, and how to install, configure, and design HPC systems
• Design, test and implement an HPC environment consisting of a provisioner (Warewulf), scheduler (Slurm), RDMA connections (e.g
• InfiniBand), a subnet manager, head node, storage node, and 5 compute nodes within the first 180 days of employment
• Obtaining a CompTIA Security certification within the first year of employment

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related STEM field
• 2 yrs scripting experience (including during education)
• 2 yrs professional/personal experience using command line Linux (RHEL derivatives preferred)
• Experience in one or more engineering computational code OR 2 years of IT-related experience (e.g., basic networking, a home
• Linux environment)
• US Citizenship
• Obtain and maintain a U.S security clearance

Preferred Skills

• Past experience as an HPC User on a large-scale cluster
• Experience configuring, installing, and troubleshooting MPI and OpenMP applications
• Experience configuring, installing, tuning, and maintaining scientific software on large-scale systems
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible or Puppet
• Experience configuring, installing, maintaining, and using performance monitoring and optimization tools
• Experience with Linux operating systems (e.g., Ubuntu, Rocky Linux) with experience with RHEL-derivative operating systems
• Experience with at least one Linux filesystem (e.g., ZFS, XFS, ext4)
• Experience with RAID arrays

Why CorvidFounded in 2004, we are a group of over 300 engineers and scientists, about 3/4 with master’ degrees or Ph.D.'s, that provide end-to-end solutions including concept development, design and optimization, prototype build, test and manufacture. We leverage the predictive capability of our high-fidelity computational physics solvers, indigenous massively parallel supercomputer system, prototyping plant, and ballistics and mechanics lab to investigate a variety of high-rate physics phenomena.
The results are complex engineering solutions for a variety of applications; aircraft, ballistic missile defense, cybersecurity, motorsports, armor development, biological systems, and missile and warhead design and development. These results are achieved with optimal design and cost efficiency due to the predictive capability of Corvid’s tools and our in-house, end-to-end integrated approach, which differentiates Corvid from the market.
We value our people and offer employees a broad range of benefits. Benefits for full-time employees include:

• Paid gym membership
• Flexible schedules
• Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance including Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401k match up to 6%
• Three weeks starting PTO; increasing with tenure
• Continued education and training opportunities