HPC Applications & Performance Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

HPC Applications & Performance Engineer at HPE providing pre- and post-sales technical support for HPC and AI opportunities. Collaborating on product capabilities while leading performance studies and benchmarks.

Posted 6/16/2026full-timeSpring • Minnesota, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $105,500 - $243,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provide pre- and post-sales technical and benchmarking support to enable HPC or AI customer opportunities
Collaborate with HPE product engineering, product management, and marketing to influence current and future product capabilities and direction
Evaluate emerging technologies and assess their impact on product differentiation (performance and features) for key customer applications
Develop and maintain current knowledge of HPE and competitor HPC/AI products and performance optimization techniques to ensure the team continues to deliver high-quality benchmark results
Lead application-focused performance studies and projects, and author technical reports and papers that communicate findings and recommendations.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelors, Master’s or PhD degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or equivalent
7+ years of demonstrated experience with high-end HPC systems and performance analysis/tuning of scalable HPC applications
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills; mastery of English required
U.S. citizenship required
Experience with large-scale HPC systems and software
Experience with large-scale AI systems and software is preferred
Detailed understanding of multiprocessor and GPU hardware architectures, capabilities, and parallel programming techniques (e.g., OpenMP, MPI, CUDA, HIP)
Proficiency with key industry-standard HPC benchmarks (e.g., HPL, HPCG, OSU MPI, NCCL/RCCL) on CPUs and GPUs is preferred
Experience with performance projection methodologies to model performance of alternate system architectures using performance measurement tools and techniques is preferred.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health & Wellbeing: Comprehensive suite of benefits that supports physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
Personal & Professional Development: Invest in your career with specific programs catered to helping you reach career goals.
Unconditional Inclusion: Flexibility to manage work and personal needs with a culture that embraces varied backgrounds.

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Hard Skills & Tools

HPC systemsperformance analysisperformance tuningparallel programmingOpenMPMPICUDAHIPHPLHPCG

Soft Skills

analytical skillsproblem-solving skillswritten communicationverbal communication