Systems Engineer - High Performance Computing (HPC)

🇺🇸 Hybrid - Auburn, AL

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $62K - $121K

💻 Information Technology

🗓️ January 7th, 2026

Python

Edtech.com's Summary

Auburn University is hiring a Systems Engineer - High Performance Computing (HPC). The role involves designing, implementing, and maintaining HPC infrastructure, developing automation scripts, supporting research application integration, and collaborating with researchers and IT staff to optimize HPC workflows. The engineer ensures continuous operation and enhancement of HPC resources to advance diverse research projects and academic initiatives.

Highlights

Design, implement, and maintain HPC infrastructure components including workload schedulers, storage systems, and compute nodes.
Analyze system performance, identify bottlenecks, and apply corrective actions to improve computational efficiency.
Develop and maintain automation scripts, APIs, and monitoring tools for consistent system configuration.
Support integration of research applications, libraries, and toolchains across multiple computing environments.
Implement security and compliance standards following institutional and regulatory requirements.
Collaborate with researchers, faculty, and IT staff to optimize computational workflows using HPC resources.
Participate in capacity planning, hardware evaluation, and software testing for system scalability and sustainability.
Maintain technical documentation and operational procedures aligned with IT and research computing best practices.
Required skills include advanced Linux systems administration, shell scripting, management of Linux services and protocols, and strong understanding of IT principles and server infrastructure.
Minimum qualifications vary by level: Systems Engineer requires a high school diploma plus 11 years relevant experience or equivalent education and experience; Senior Systems Engineer requires a bachelor's degree plus 6 years IT experience in distributed computer system administration.
Desired qualifications include degree in related field, experience with parallel computing, programming in C, FORTRAN, Perl, Python, R, Matlab, and knowledge of parallel file systems.
Compensation range is $61,840 to $120,760 annually.