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Staff HPC Infrastructure Engineer

Guardant Health · Palo Alto, CA · On-site

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About Guardant Health

Guardant Health is a leading precision medicine company focused on transforming patient care and conquering cancer with data. Backed by Khosla, Lightspeed and Sequoia.

About the role

You enjoy an agile, very fast paced and highly technical environment. You are a self-driven, accomplished technologist who strives to continually improve your skills as the HPC landscape evolves and the computational infrastructure scales. You are dedicated to engineering excellence yet pragmatic and flexible. You have the ability to maintain the day-to-day support SLA while running various key projects that move the business forward.

What they're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field with 8–12 years of relevant experience, Master’s degree with 6–8 years of relevant experience, or PhD with 3–5 years of relevant experience
  • Strong experience in systems and/or infrastructure engineering, including Linux/Unix administration and TCP/IP networking
  • Hands-on experience with automation tools, such as Ansible or equivalent technologies
  • Experience with high-performance networking technologies, such as InfiniBand, RoCE, RDMA, or equivalent, including troubleshooting in production environments
  • Experience supporting large-scale data storage and high-performance computing (HPC)/compute environments
  • Experience working with both on-premise and cloud-based infrastructure, such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure, or similar environments
More about this role

Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on guarding wellness and giving every person more time free from cancer. Founded in 2012, Guardant® is transforming patient care and accelerating new cancer therapies by providing critical insights into what drives disease through its advanced blood and tissue tests, real-world data and AI analytics. Guardant tests help improve outcomes across all stages of care, including screening to find cancer early, monitoring for recurrence in early-stage cancer, and treatment selection for patients with advanced cancer. For more information, visit guardanthealth.com and follow the company on LinkedIn , X (Twitter) and Facebook .

Guardant's HPC team builds and operates the computational technology backbone of the company. This includes scalable data storage that holds petabytes of genomics data, high-performance compute clusters running a custom bioinformatics pipeline in production and R&D environments, and the software infrastructure that hosts an ecosystem of services for internal data processing and external data integration.

The HPC engineering team is looking for a Staff-level engineer with broad, all-round HPC competency...

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