Director, HPC Systems Software Engineering
AI summary of the role
Director-level role leading Nscale's HPC systems engineering organization, accountable for strategy, execution, and organizational effectiveness across a major platform area.
What you’ll do
- Define and evolve the strategy for a major HPC systems engineering area aligned with business goals and platform priorities
- Lead a major HPC systems engineering organization through managers, senior technical leaders, and team-of-teams structures
- Own delivery outcomes, execution quality, service quality, and team health across the area
- Ensure teams build on sound foundations for Slurm-based and adjacent HPC services, with reliability and operational maturity as first-class requirements
What you’ll bring
- Proven experience leading a significant HPC systems, platform engineering, or infrastructure-heavy engineering organization
- Strong technical credibility in software engineering for HPC systems, distributed infrastructure, Linux-based platforms, and production operations
- Demonstrated ability to operate at org scope, translating business and engineering strategy into team structure, priorities, and execution
- Strong track record of leading through managers and senior technical leaders
Technologies
HPC · Slurm · Kueue · GPU infrastructure · Linux · distributed infrastructure · batch scheduling · cloud-native
Source and classification
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About the Role (Job Purpose) The Director, HPC Systems Engineering is accountable for the strategy, execution, and organisational effectiveness of Nscale’s HPC systems engineering function. This role operates at organisation scope and is responsible for ensuring that teams deliver reliable, scalable, and supportable HPC platform capabilities aligned with business priorities and long-term platform strategy. This role combines organisational leadership with strong technical and operational judgement. You will shape the strategy for a major HPC platform area, build and lead the teams responsible for delivering it, and ensure that architecture, execution, and service quality remain aligned as the organisation grows. As a Director, your impact comes through leadership of managers, senior engineers, and team-of-teams structures. You are accountable for building a healthy, high-performing
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About the Role (Job Purpose) The Director, HPC Systems Engineering is accountable for the strategy, execution, and organisational effectiveness of Nscale’s HPC systems engineering function. This role operates at organisation scope and is responsible for ensuring that teams deliver reliable, scalable, and supportable HPC platform capabilities aligned with business priorities and long-term platform strategy. This role combines organisational leadership with strong technical and operational judgement. You will shape the strategy for a major HPC platform area, build and lead the teams responsible for delivering it, and ensure that architecture, execution, and service quality remain aligned as the organisation grows. As a Director, your impact comes through leadership of managers, senior engineers, and team-of-teams structures. You are accountable for building a healthy, high-performing organisation with the right structure, talent, operating model, and priorities to package and operate high-quality HPC systems as services. What You’ll be Doing (Responsibilities) Strategy, Scope & Organisational Direction Define and evolve the strategy for a major HPC systems engineering area, aligned with business goals, customer needs, platform priorities, and long-term service direction Translate company and engineering strategy into clear priorities, investment areas, and execution plans [... source excerpt omitted ...] m initiatives that require coordination, investment, or organisational change Ensure reliability, performance, supportability, and operational maturity are treated as first-class requirements Build a strong partnership model with adjacent cloud-native software engineering teams so shared patterns are reused effectively People, Capability & Leadership Development Hire, develop, and retain strong engineering leaders, managers, and senior HPC systems engineers Raise the leadership bar through coaching, feedback, succession planning, and strong performance management Build a healthy partnership model between engineering managers and senior ICs Strengthen organisational capability [... source excerpt omitted ...] to senior engineering, product, infrastructure, security, and business stakeholders Represent the organisation in strategic planning, executive discussions, architecture reviews, customer conversations, and partner discussions where needed Own budget, headcount planning, and organisational investment decisions for the area Ensure the HPC systems engineering organisation is positioned to support broader company goals and changing business needs Where relevant, support Nscale’s technical position in the broader HPC and cloud-native ecosystem About You (Skills / Qualifications) Proven experience leading a significant HPC systems, platform engineering, or infrastructure-heavy e
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