HPC Engineer

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and manage large-scale distributed HPC environments supporting ASIC and GPU compute clusters.
• Design and implement infrastructure automation using Ansible, Shell, and Python for system lifecycle management.
• Administer and optimize workload schedulers such as LSF, Slurm, and NC, including queue configuration and job prioritization.
• Perform deep troubleshooting and root cause analysis across compute, storage, networking, and scheduler layers.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve EDA workload performance and efficiency.
• Manage the EDA ecosystem, including tool deployment (Cadence, Synopsys) and licensing optimization.
• Implement monitoring and observability frameworks using tools like Splunk and Grafana.
• Drive capacity planning, performance tuning, and resource optimization for HPC workloads.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience in Linux system administration (RHEL/CentOS).
• Strong expertise in HPC cluster management and workload schedulers (LSF/Slurm).
• Proven experience in automation and scripting using Ansible, Shell, and Python.
• Hands-on experience managing large-scale HPC or EDA environments.
• Strong skills in performance tuning, capacity planning, and workload optimization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting EDA or semiconductor design environments.
• Exposure to GPU computing and accelerator-based workloads.
• Knowledge of EDA licensing systems and optimization.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and platform standardization.
• Familiarity with cloud or hybrid HPC architectures (AWS/Azure HPC).

About the Company

Sandisk understands how people and businesses consume data and we relentlessly innovate to deliver solutions that enable today’s needs and tomorrow’s next big ideas. With a rich history of groundbreaking innovations in Flash and advanced memory technologies, our solutions have become the beating heart of the digital world.