HPC Operations Engineer

Job Overview

As an HPC Operations Engineer at NVIDIA, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the flawless operation of our high-performance computing (HPC) environment. This opportunity is outstanding as you will be part of a world-class team that powers semiconductor build and advanced engineering workflows. By joining us, you will help develop the future of computing while being immersed in an innovative and encouraging environment.

• Provide first-line support for HPC users across scheduling, compute, storage, and access-related issues
• Triage infrastructure incidents, gather diagnostics, and advance to subject matter experts when issues extend beyond defined ownership
• Monitor system health, queues, node status, and service availability to ensure stable daily operations
• Complete established operational procedures for maintenance, patching, and configuration updates
• Develop and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, knowledge base articles, and guidelines for users and internal teams
• Contribute to improving team processes by identifying recurring issues and proposing practical workflow refinements
• Troubleshoot job failures, scheduler errors, resource constraints, and performance concerns, driving issues to resolution or appropriate customer concern

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of experience supporting Linux-based production environments
• Solid Linux systems administration fundamentals (RHEL/CentOS and/or Ubuntu)
• Ability to troubleshoot technical issues methodically and determine when a customer concern requires attention
• Experience interacting directly with users in a technical support or operations role
• Strong written communication skills with the ability to produce clear documentation and procedural guides
• Demonstrated ability to follow established processes while maintaining attention to detail

• Foundational scripting or automation experience (e.g., Bash or Python) to support routine operational tasks
• Solid understanding of workload schedulers such as LSF, Slurm, or similar systems
• Strong grasp of network computing supporting infrastructure (NFS, automounter, LDAP)
• Experience supporting HPC or large-scale compute environments
• Familiarity with EDA workloads

We are offering highly competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package. Base salary ranges are $124,000–$195,500 for Level2 and $152,000–$241,500 for Level3, with eligibility for equity and benefits.

Applications will be accepted until July
132026. This posting is for an existing vacancy. NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and is an equal‑opportunity employer. The company does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.