Staff HPC Engineer

Vast • Long Beach, CA

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Vast is developing next-generation space stations and space infrastructure using an incremental, hardware-rich, and low-cost approach. Vast is rapidly developing its multi-module Haven Station to ensure a continuous human presence in space for America and its allies, enabling advanced microgravity research and manufacturing, and unlocking a new space economy for government, corporate, and private customers. Haven Demo’s 2025 success made Vast the only operational commercial space station company to fly and operate its own spacecraft. Next, Haven-1 is expected to become the world’s first commercial space station when it launches in 2027, followed by additional Haven modules. Additionally, the company recently announced Vast Satellite , a high-power satellite product line leveraging its space station components and the heritage of Haven Demo. Headquartered in Long Beach, California , and with more than 1,000 employees and over a billion dollars in private capital, Vast has built the facilities required to manufacture and operate America’s next space station. The company plans to develop future habitats and systems for the Moon and Mars, dedicated space stations for government partners, and other crewed systems that will unlock the expanding long-term space economy. Vast is looking for a Staff HPC Infrastructure Engineer , reporting to the Manager, IT Infrastructure to support the development of the systems that will be required for the design and build of artificial-gravity human-rated space stations. This will be a full-time, exempt position located in our Long Beach location.

Requirements

• 8+ years of HPC administration and architecture or relevant industry experience
• Experience supporting HPC clusters for Aerospace or a related industry, including structural, dynamic, mechanical, computational fluid dynamic analyses
• Deep understanding of SLURM and Linux
• Experience working with engineering organizations to shape architecture and administration of HPC systems to accelerate engineering analysis
• Proven track record of leading technical initiatives from concept through production deployment
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, math, engineering, or equivalent work experience

Nice To Haves

• AWS Parallel Cluster for HPC
• Infrastructure/configuration as code frameworks including Terraform and Puppet
• Cloud infrastructure experience in AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Expert in Nastran, Abaqus, Ansys, STAR-CCM, Wave6 analysis software
• Experience building on-premise HPC environments, including virtualization layers and underlying hardware (compute, storage, networking, and GPU infrastructure)
• Proficiency in Python or an equivalent scripting language
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment
• Ability to make independent judgments with limited information
• Communication skills for relaying data (verbally and in writing) between other employees, vendors, and customers
• Logical and strategic approach to solving problems
• Ability to read and understand basic floor plans
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt to changes in strategic direction

Responsibilities

• Build, support, and architect Vast’s high-performance compute (HPC) infrastructure
• Design and implement enhancements to the HPC environment including new features to improve performance, ease of use, and cost optimization
• Provide support to the engineering teams who use HPC for their analysis
• Own the lifecycle of Vast’s HPC infrastructure, including cluster updates, patching, maintenance, performance, and reliability
• Integrate the HPC environment with Vast’s broader engineering design cycle including upstream design in NX/Teamcenter and post-processing
• Manage process for onboarding new applications and users to the HPC environment

Benefits

• company equity
• medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents
• generous paid time off; up to 20+ days of vacation for exempt staff and up to 10+ days of vacation for non-exempt staff with the ability to cash-out unused vacation annually
• paid parental leave
• short and long-term disability insurance
• life insurance
• access to a 401(k) retirement plan
• ClassPass credits
• personalized mental healthcare through Spring Health
• other discounts and perks
• snacks, drip coffee & onsite barista, cold drinks, and dinner meals remaining free of charge
• lunch subsidized

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior