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Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Builds servers, networking and private cloud

HPC & AI Performance Engineer

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/23/2026
$109k - $251k/yr+ Variable incentives
Senior
Master's, PhD
Bloomington, MN, USA+1 moreMore locations: Houston, TX, USA
HybridHybrid; work from an HPE office an average of 2 days per week, in Houston or Bloomington.
AI & Machine LearningApplied Machine Learning

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 6 years of experience with HPC and AI workloads, including scientific and engineering applications, MLPerf, large language models such as DeepSeek, Kimi K2.6 or K3, and gpt-oss-120b, AI training and inference, storage benchmarks, and performance-profiling tools; relevant coursework and internship experience will be considered.
  • Knowledge of HPC and AI system architecture, including CPUs, GPUs and other accelerators, memory, networking, storage, and software stacks, and the ability to explain their impact on application and benchmark performance.
  • Understanding of parallel and distributed programming techniques, including MPI, OpenMP, OpenSHMEM, algorithms, and performance considerations for HPC and AI workloads.
  • Ability to lead complex HPC and AI performance projects, work effectively across technical teams, and translate findings into customer-focused recommendations.
  • Ability to analyze and optimize computational applications and benchmarks on Linux-based HPC and AI systems.
  • Experience with HPC and AI software environments, including C, C++, Fortran, Python, Linux scripting, compilers, MPI, MPI-IO, OpenMP, and relevant AI frameworks and libraries.
  • Experience with NVIDIA GPUs and AMD Instinct MI-series accelerators, including offloading computational routines using CUDA, HIP, OpenMP target offload, OpenACC, or comparable programming models for HPC and AI workloads.
  • Experience using performance-profiling, tracing, and debugging tools on Linux-based HPC and AI systems.
  • Ability to interpret benchmark results, identify performance bottlenecks, and recommend improvements for HPC and AI applications and systems.
  • Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics, chemistry, environmental science, or a related technical field.
  • Professional proficiency in English.
Responsibilities
  • Lead HPC and AI benchmarking projects across CPU, GPU, network, memory, and storage platforms.
  • Evaluate HPE and competitive HPC and AI architectures using performance models and benchmark data.
  • Run and analyze scientific, engineering, large language model, AI training and inference, storage, and I/O workloads.
  • Identify performance bottlenecks and optimize applications, AI frameworks, libraries, compilers, runtimes, and system software.
  • Apply parallel computing, GPU acceleration, profiling, and memory and I/O optimization to deliver credible, repeatable results.
Desired Qualifications
  • PhD degree.

About the company

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise sells servers, storage, networking and hybrid cloud software to large companies, governments and service providers. Its GreenLake platform lets customers run on-premises hardware as a metered cloud service, and its Cray supercomputers run national lab and AI training workloads. The networking business, built on Aruba and Juniper Networks, supplies campus, data-center and routing equipment. Revenue comes from hardware sales, multiyear support contracts, financing and subscriptions. The company traces its roots to Hewlett-Packard, founded in 1939, became a separate public company in 2015 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Houston, Texas

Founded

1939

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What believers are saying

  • Growth is strong: revenue hit a record $12.2 billion, up 34%, in the quarter reported September 2026.
  • Time off to recharge: HPE gives four Wellness Fridays off a year plus 60 hours of paid volunteer time.
  • Scale gives range: HPE runs server, storage, networking and supercomputer businesses under one employer.

What critics are saying

  • Cuts continue after Juniper: an October 2025 WARN notice listed 52 HPE layoffs in San Jose, California.
  • Integration pressure: HPE still targets $600 million in yearly Juniper cost savings by fiscal 2028, as of October 2026.
  • Supply limits sales: in September 2026, CEO Antonio Neri said memory supply stays very constrained until 2028.

What makes Hewlett Packard Enterprise unique

  • Networking is now core: Juniper helped make networking a $2.9 billion business in the quarter reported September 2026.
  • AI networking is surging: Networks for AI orders hit a record $700 million in the quarter reported September 2026.
  • Hybrid cloud model: GreenLake bills customers monthly for on-premises servers and storage they use.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Flexible Work Hours
  • Hybrid Work Options
  • Professional Development Budget
  • Wellness Program

Growth & Insights and Company News

6 month growth

4%

1 year growth

11%

2 year growth

11%
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) shares rose about 4% to $57.46, outpacing other AI server stocks. Dell Technologies gained roughly 2% to $462.42, while Super Micro Computer was essentially unchanged at $33.73. The S&P 500 ETF SPY slipped 0.34% to $761.35, while the Global X Data Center & Digital Infrastructure ETF rose about 2% to $25.39. HPE expanded its AI Factory offerings with NVIDIA and deepened a partnership with Schneider Electric to deploy industrial AI agents at the edge. It also said its Spaceborne Computer-4 will travel to the Moon's south pole on Astrolab's FLIP rover later this year. Investors may be favouring HPE's broader mix of enterprise, edge, and specialised computing over narrower peers.

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Schneider Electric, NVIDIA and HPE have announced a collaboration to bring Physical AI to process and heavy industries. They unveiled Industrial AI Agents at the Edge in Berlin on October 22, 2026. The system runs on HPE Private Cloud AI, so autonomous agents work inside industrial sites. It targets three barriers to adoption: data sovereignty, cybersecurity, and AI consumption costs. The first three agents cover operational technology monitoring, cybersecurity, and energy optimisation. Customers manage them through Schneider's EcoStruxure Industrial Insights apps. CMPC Chile, a Latin American pulp and paper producer, has used Schneider's monitoring system for three years. It sees potential for AI agents to help its specialists investigate issues faster, while people stay in control of critical decisions.

The Register
Oct 20th, 2026
HPE to run AI on the Moon this year with Spaceborne Computer 4 aboard Astrolab's FLIP rover

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) will run AI on the Moon before the end of the year. Its fourth-generation Spaceborne Computer (SBC4) will fly aboard Astrolab's Flex Lunar Innovation Platform (FLIP) rover, part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services programme. A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will launch the rover, and Astrobotic's Griffin-1 lander will carry it to the Moon's south pole near Mons Mouton. SBC4 will run tuned large language model tests, machine learning on camera and LiDAR data, and supercomputing benchmarks, which could make it the first Top500 submission from a celestial body. The 1TB system uses mostly off-the-shelf parts, including Kioxia SSDs in a software RAID 1 mirror. Processing data locally saves scarce bandwidth back to Earth.

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