HPC Developer

Salary: $123,000 - 163,000 per year Requirements:

• Strong professional experience developing software in Golang.
• Demonstrable experience automating physical hardware or data-centre infrastructure.
• Experience building production automation for server, GPU, network, storage, power or cooling systems.
• Strong Linux and systems engineering knowledge.
• Understanding of server components, rack-scale infrastructure and data-centre operations.
• Experience developing reliable, scalable and observable production systems.
• Ability to work effectively with infrastructure, hardware and operations teams.
• Strong troubleshooting, debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Desirable: experience supporting HPC, AI/ML, GPU or high-density compute environments.
• Desirable: experience with data-centre hardware, including GPUs, servers, switches, rack PDUs, CDUs and environmental monitoring systems.
• Desirable: knowledge of Kubernetes, Slurm or other cluster-management and workload-orchestration technologies.
• Desirable: experience with Python, Bash or another systems programming language.
• Desirable: familiarity with configuration management, infrastructure as code and CI/CD.
• Desirable: experience with Prometheus, Grafana or other observability platforms.
• Desirable: exposure to power, cooling and data-centre capacity planning.
• Desirable: experience in a high-availability, trading, cloud, hyperscale or other performance-critical environment.

• Design, develop and maintain production-grade automation in Golang.
• Automate the complete lifecycle of HPC data-centre hardware, from discovery and provisioning through deployment, monitoring, maintenance and decommissioning.
• Build workflows for servers, GPUs, network switches, rack PDUs, CDUs, environmental sensors and related infrastructure.
• Create end-to-end processes that take hardware from rack installation and cabling through configuration, validation and production readiness, with minimal manual intervention.
• Integrate with hardware management interfaces, APIs and protocols such as Redfish, IPMI, SNMP and vendor-specific platforms.
• Develop tools for hardware health monitoring, diagnostics, alerting and automated recovery.
• Integrate telemetry from compute, networking, power, cooling and environmental systems into centralised monitoring platforms.
• Support capacity planning across power, cooling, rack space, networking and compute resources.
• Develop operational tools for inventory, spares, change management, troubleshooting and hardware lifecycle tracking.
• Collaborate with HPC engineering, data-centre operations, network, systems and infrastructure teams.
• Turn manual operational processes and pain points into reliable, maintainable automation.
• Take ownership of the reliability, documentation and continuous improvement of developed systems and tools.
• Support large-scale infrastructure deployments, maintenance activities and production incidents as needed.

• AI
• Bash
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Golang
• Grafana
• Hardware
• Support
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Network
• Prometheus
• Python

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We are hiring a full-time HPC Data Center Developer based in Chicago to build automation and tooling for large-scale high-performance computing infrastructure. This development-focused role combines software engineering with hands-on understanding of data-centre hardware. It may suit a software engineer, infrastructure developer, systems engineer or data-centre automation engineer who enjoys working close to the hardware.

last updated 41 week of 2026