HPC Software Engineer

Job Description

Canonical is seeking a HPC Software Engineer to join their HPC team. The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering an outstanding HPC experience as part of the broader Ubuntu platform. Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration.

The HPC Software Engineer's responsibilities include:

• Writing high-quality, rigorously designed Python software.
• Collaborating proactively with a globally distributed team.
• Debugging issues and producing high-quality code to fix them.
• Contributing to technical documentation that defines best practices.
• Discussing ideas and collaborating on finding good solutions.

The ideal candidate should possess the following:

• A Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree.
• Experience with writing modern, maintainable Python.
• Experience operating HPC clusters in production (advantageous).
• Experiences with Infiniband, RDMA, CUDA, MPI, Slurm, Lustre, and/or Singularity (advantageous).
• Familiarity with Linux, Kubernetes, Public cloud, OpenStack, LXC/LXD, Python, Go, Debian packaging.
• An exceptional academic track record from both high school and preferably university.

Canonical offers:

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person.
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.
• Annual compensation review.
• Recognition rewards.
• Annual holiday leave.
• Maternity and paternity leave.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Opportunity to travel to new locations.
• Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events.