HPC Applications & Performance Engineer
Hewlett Packard Enterprise· enterprise· Enterprise IT· Sep 4, 2026 · 2mo ago
Houston Texas
In office
Full-time
Senior
$145K–$185K est.
7+ years exp
Job description
HPC Applications & Performance Engineer
This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.
Who We Are:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.
Job Description:
HPE is seeking an experienced HPC performance engineer who is excited to help drive the performance of systems used to solve the world’s biggest problems. As a member of the HPC and AI Solutions and Performance Engineering team, this engineer will benchmark, profile, and tune HPC and AI related applications along with industry-standard benchmarks across HPE’s HPC and AI product portfolio to identify, analyze, and resolve engineering and customer issues. This engineer will have the opportunity to collaborate with leading scientists and engineers, contributing to groundbreaking innovation in HPC and AI. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong technical capability in HPC scientific applications, performance analysis, and HPC architecture, along with a commitment to advancing the performance of HPE supercomputers deployed at customer sites worldwide.
This role is based in Bloomington, MN or Spring, TX
This position will support government accounts. Therefore, due to federal export-control regulations, the selected candidate must hold U.S. citizenship, U.S. lawful permanent resident/Green Card status or otherwise have a category of refugee/asylee status enabling them to perform the role without requiring a license under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) or Export Administration Regulations (EAR).
Responsibilities 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
Needed qualifications:
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
Preferred qualifications:
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
What We Can Offer You:
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We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.
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We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.
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Engineering Job Level:
TCP_04
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– United States of America: Annual Salary USD 105,500 - 243,000 in Minnesota & Texas
The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered."
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