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HPC Production Engineer

NJF Global Holdings Ltd
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 12/28/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/20/2026

HPC Production Engineer – Deep Systems & Performance


I’m currently partnered with a leading global trading firm looking for a highly specialized HPC Production Engineer to support their large-scale, mission-critical compute and storage environments. This role is ideal for engineers who thrive on deep technical challenges, working with high-performance systems that power complex workloads.


This is not a generalist IT role—we’re looking for someone who can dig into HPC internals, troubleshoot complex production issues, and optimize systems across compute, storage, and network layers.


Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and maintain large-scale HPC compute and storage infrastructure.
  • Monitor and optimize system performance, diagnose complex production incidents, and perform root cause analysis.
  • Build and maintain tooling for software deployment, OS upgrades, and cluster provisioning.
  • Implement and maintain performance and fault monitoring systems.
  • Collaborate with researchers and engineers to analyze workloads and optimize HPC performance.
  • Provide operational support on a rotating on-call schedule.


Required Experience

  • 5 years of hands-on HPC production experience, including parallel filesystems (Lustre, GPFS, or similar) and batch schedulers (Slurm, Grid Engine, or equivalent).
  • Strong Linux systems administration skills, including kernel, memory, I/O, and process-level debugging.
  • Programming/scripting proficiency in Go, Python, C/C , or similar.
  • Experience designing, building, and operating complex distributed systems.
  • Familiarity with configuration management and automation tools (Ansible, SaltStack, Puppet, etc.).


Ideal Candidate

  • Can explain HPC internals in depth, including system behavior under load.
  • Has experience troubleshooting production HPC issues end-to-end.
  • Comfortable working across compute, storage, and network layers.
  • Hands-on, collaborative, and capable of operating high-performance infrastructure at scale.


This is an excellent opportunity for HPC engineers who enjoy working at the forefront of large-scale computing environments, solving challenging technical problems, and supporting mission-critical systems.

Salary : $200,000 - $300,000

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