Freelance High Performance Computing Engineer Jobs in Texas

High Performance Computing (HPC) Engineer

Travel: Up to 50% (Customer Sites, Industry Events, Project Deployments)
Level: Mid-Senior Engineer
Reports To: Services Delivery Manager / Practice Director

There is a need for this role at Childress, TX.

Relocation Stipend - Monthly $1800.00

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled High Performance Computing (HPC) Engineer to design, deploy, optimize, and support enterprise HPC and AI infrastructure solutions for customers across healthcare, research, education, manufacturing, government, and commercial industries.

The ideal candidate will possess strong technical expertise in HPC architecture, Linux administration, clustering technologies, high-speed networking, storage systems, and workload management. This is a high-visibility, customer-facing role requiring exceptional communication skills and the ability to engage with technical decision-makers, architects, and executive stakeholders.

This position involves significant customer interaction and travel to support solution design workshops, installations, migrations, performance tuning, and ongoing technical advisory services.

Key Responsibilities

Solution Design & Architecture

• Design and architect enterprise HPC solutions utilizing:
• • Dell PowerEdge Servers
  • Dell PowerScale (Isilon)
  • Dell PowerStore
  • Dell ObjectScale/ECS
  • Dell Integrated Rack Solutions
• Develop scalable compute, storage, and networking architectures for HPC and AI environments.
• Perform capacity planning, workload analysis, and performance assessments Deployment & Implementation
• Install, configure, and integrate HPC clusters at customer locations.
• Deploy and manage Linux-based clustered environments.
• Configure high-speed interconnects including:
• • InfiniBand
  • Ethernet (100/200/400GbE)
• Deploy and support shared storage architectures.

Performance Optimization

Conduct benchmarking and performance analysis.

• Optimize compute, memory, storage, and network utilization.
• Identify and resolve bottlenecks affecting HPC workloads.
• Support customer application tuning initiatives.

Customer Engagement

• Lead technical discussions with customer engineering and IT teams.
• Deliver architecture reviews and best-practice recommendations.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor throughout the project lifecycle.
• Provide executive-level technical presentations when required.

Operations & Support

• Troubleshoot complex hardware, software, networking, and storage issues.
• Participate in escalated support engagements.
• Create technical documentation, runbooks, and implementation guides.
• Assist with disaster recovery and business continuity planning.

Collaboration

• Work closely with internal engineering teams, product specialists, account managers, and technology partners.
• Support proof-of-concept engagements and technology demonstrations.
• Mentor junior engineers and share technical best practices.

Required Technical Skills

Operating Systems

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• Rocky Linux
• AlmaLinux
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)

HPC Cluster Technologies

• Slurm Workload Manager
• OpenHPC
• Bright Cluster Manager (preferred)
• Warewulf
• xCAT

Storage Technologies

• Dell PowerScale / Isilon
• NFS
• Lustre
• BeeGFS
• GPFS / IBM Spectrum Scale
• Parallel file systems

Networking

• InfiniBand
• RoCE
• High-speed Ethernet (100/200/400GbE)
• Network performance analysis
• RDMA technologies

HPC & AI Workloads

• MPI (OpenMPI, Intel MPI)
• GPU Computing
• CUDA
• NVIDIA GPU Platforms
• AI/ML infrastructure deployment
• Scientific and engineering applications

Virtualization & Cloud

• VMware vSphere
• Kubernetes
• OpenShift
• Hybrid cloud HPC architectures
• Azure and AWS HPC services (preferred)

Automation & Scripting

• Python
• Bash
• Ansible
• Terraform (preferred)
• Git

Monitoring & Management

• Grafana
• Prometheus
• Nagios
• Dell OpenManage Enterprise
• Performance monitoring and capacity reporting

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 5-10+ years of experience supporting enterprise Linux and infrastructure environments.
• 3-5+ years of hands-on HPC deployment and administration experience.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across servers, storage, networking, and operating systems.
• Experience working directly with enterprise customers in a consulting, professional services, or systems integration environment.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple customer projects simultaneously.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing, deploying, or supporting Dell HPC infrastructure and enterprise storage solutions.
• NVIDIA certification or GPU deployment experience.
• Red Hat Certification (RHCSA/RHCE).
• Dell Technologies certifications (preferred).
• Experience supporting AI and machine learning infrastructure.
• Experience supporting research, life sciences, manufacturing, financial services, or government HPC environments.

Success Factors

The successful candidate will:

• Be viewed as a trusted technical advisor by strategic customers.
• Independently lead complex HPC infrastructure deployments.
• Resolve challenging performance and infrastructure issues.
• Communicate effectively with both engineering teams and executive stakeholders.
• Thrive in a fast-paced, customer-facing consulting environment.

Travel Requirement: Up to 50% travel throughout the United States for customer meetings, solution deployments, health checks, and executive briefings.

This role is ideal for a senior infrastructure engineer, Linux architect, or HPC specialist looking to work with enterprise customers while designing and deploying cutting-edge HPC and AI infrastructure utilizing leading technologies, including Dell, NVIDIA, and other industry-leading platforms.