Lead HPC Systems Engineer

Our client is looking for an engineer with high-performance computing (HPC) and site-reliability experience to keep their growing multi-cloud AI infrastructure reliable and efficient. You will investigate hard operational problems across compute, accelerators, workload scheduling, storage, and networking, and turn what you learn into proactive detection, diagnosis, and safe automated remediation, including AI-powered agents.

Success here starts with understanding how HPC infrastructure behaves in production and learning unfamiliar systems fast. Prior experience building or orchestrating AI agents is welcome but not required.

Req# 1103823066

Responsibilities

• Build a working understanding of multi-cloud HPC architecture (clusters, schedulers, accelerators, storage, networking, authentication) and keep it current as the infrastructure changes
• Find reliability and performance problems proactively, correlating logs, metrics, and events across cloud providers to build a clear incident picture and spot gaps in telemetry
• Diagnose complex issues end to end across Linux hosts, containers, schedulers, distributed workloads, storage, networking, and accelerators, isolating root cause rather than treating symptoms
• Turn proven investigations into repeatable tooling and agent-enabled workflows for detection, diagnosis, and bounded remediation, with safety built in: scoped permissions, precondition checks, human approval where needed, rollback, and post-change verification
• Strengthen observability and monitoring, measure whether the automation actually works (accuracy, recovery time, recurrence, false positives), and partner with infrastructure, research, security, and cloud-provider teams to turn incident lessons into durable fixes

Requirements

• Operations experience with production HPC, GPU/accelerator clusters, or large-scale distributed compute in a reliability-focused engineering role
• Strong Linux and networking skills, debugging failures across processes, containers, storage I/O, DNS, connectivity, and authentication
• Correlates telemetry across multiple cloud environments using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or centralized logging, rather than relying on a single dashboard
• Writes and maintains automation in a language such as Python or Go, and has owned complex production investigations from symptom through root cause to a verified, lasting fix

Nice to have

• Hands-on with HPC scheduling or cluster orchestration (Slurm, Kubernetes, or similar), and an understanding of how infrastructure health affects workload placement and completion
• Supporting AI training or accelerator-intensive workloads: GPU/TPU health, distributed-job failures, interconnect problems, data-loading bottlenecks, or checkpointing
• Experience across clouds such as AWS, GCP, CoreWeave, or OCI and their native observability services. You do not need every provider named here
• HPC storage and networking (NFS/POSIX, Lustre, object storage, RDMA/InfiniBand or RoCE), infrastructure-as-code and deployment tooling (Terraform, Helm, cluster operators), and failure-injection or replayable incident testing
• Building, integrating, evaluating, or orchestrating AI agents for infrastructure operations (tool interfaces, permissions, verifying agent actions)
• Welcome, but not required; strong HPC operations and SRE skills are the foundation of this role

We offer

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance (Subsidized)
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care, Commuter)
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability (Company Provided)
• Life and AD&D Insurance (Company Provided)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions
• Matched 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Paid Time Off – the employee will be eligible to accrue 15-25 paid days, depending on specific level and tenure with EPAM (accrual eligibility may change over time)
• Paid Holidays - nine (9) total per year
• Legal Plan and Identity Theft Protection
• Accident Insurance
• Employee Discounts
• Pet Insurance
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• If otherwise eligible, participation in the discretionary annual bonus program
• If otherwise eligible and hired into a qualifying level, participation in the discretionary Long-Term Incentive (LTI) Program

For remote work in New York City only.

EPAM is a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and development services. We are committed to having a positive impact on our clients, our employees, and our communities. We embrace a dynamic and inclusive culture. Here you will collaborate with multi-national teams, contribute to a myriad of innovative projects that deliver the most creative and cutting-edge solutions, and have an opportunity to continuously learn and grow. No matter where you are located, you will join a dedicated, creative, and diverse community that will help you discover your fullest potential.
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