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HPC Engineer roles in the U.S. qualify as specialty occupations under the E-3 visa, making Australian nationals eligible for sponsorship without entering the H-1B lottery. Employers file a Labor Condition Application before your consulate appointment, and the visa renews in two-year increments with no cap on total renewals.
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Date posted May. 11, 2026
Location Austin, Texas
Category Hardware Engineering
Job Overview
Engineering IT provides the high-performance compute platforms that enable Arm’s engineering teams to design, verify, and deliver world-class products. The team operates a mix of on-premises and cloud-based HPC environments, EDA enablement services, job scheduling platforms, automation tooling, and custom workflows that are critical to engineering productivity across Arm.
We are looking for an HPC Operations Engineer to help run, improve, and modernize these services. This role combines production operations, site reliability engineering, automation, cloud integration, and close collaboration with engineering users and infrastructure teams.
Responsibilities
- Operate, support, and continuously improve Arm’s HPC platforms, with a solid focus on IBM Spectrum LSF and related job scheduling services.
- Improve reliability, scalability, performance, and operational efficiency through automation, observability, standardization, and SRE practices.
- Develop automation and self-service capabilities to reduce manual operational effort and improve the user experience.
- Support production HPC environments, including incident response, solve, root cause analysis, service restoration, and continuous improvement.
- Work directly with engineering users to improve job scheduling behavior, workload performance, resource utilization, and platform efficiency.
- Develop and maintain scripts, tools, and automation frameworks using Python, Bash, and related technologies.
- Support modernization initiatives involving containers, Kubernetes, Docker, cloud-native services, Infrastructure as Code, and alternative scheduling or orchestration technologies.
- Contribute to cloud HPC integration across AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenStack, and hybrid environments.
- Collaborate with platform, cloud, storage, infrastructure, networking, and security teams to deliver robust engineering services.
- Contribute to project delivery by working with technical leads, architects, project managers, and operational team members.
- Help define and promote standards for DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, CI/CD, monitoring, and infrastructure automation.
Required Skills and Experience
- Experience operating HPC environments and job schedulers such as IBM Spectrum LSF, Slurm, PBS, Grid Engine, or similar.
- Strong Linux system administration experience, preferably with RHEL or RHEL-based distributions.
- Good scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, Shell, or similar languages.
- Experience supporting production infrastructure, including incident management, solve, operational recovery, and conducting RCA or comparable experience.
- Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, and observability platforms such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar.
- Experience building, maintaining, or supporting CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks.
- Experience with public, private, or hybrid cloud platforms, including AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenStack, and Kubernetes-based services.
- Understanding of DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, and operational excellence principles.
- Familiarity with Agile delivery practices and collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence.
- Ability to work with engineering users, understand workload requirements, and translate operational issues into practical improvements.
Desirable Experience
- Experience working in EDA or semiconductor engineering environments.
- Familiarity with EDA tools, license-aware scheduling, large-scale batch workloads, and engineering compute workflows.
- Exposure to container platforms and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Kubernetes-native scheduling.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
- Exposure to alternative schedulers such as Slurm or cloud-native workload orchestration systems.
- Experience using AI-assisted tooling, MCP, agentic services, or automation agents to improve diagnostics, operations, optimization, or self-service support.
- Experience operating large-scale distributed systems across both on-premises and cloud infrastructure.
Salary Range:
$130,100-$176,000 per year
We value people as individuals and our dedication is to reward people competitively and equitably for the work they do and the skills and experience they bring to Arm. Salary is only one component of Arm's offering. The total reward package will be shared with candidates during the recruitment and selection process.
Accommodations at Arm
At Arm, we want to build extraordinary teams. If you need an adjustment or an accommodation during the recruitment process, please email accommodations@arm.com. To note, by sending us the requested information, you consent to its use by Arm to arrange for appropriate accommodations. All accommodation or adjustment requests will be treated with confidentiality, and information concerning these requests will only be disclosed as necessary to provide the accommodation. Although this is not an exhaustive list, examples of support include breaks between interviews, having documents read aloud, or office accessibility. Please email us about anything we can do to accommodate you during the recruitment process.
Hybrid Working at Arm
Arm’s approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace, whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework, we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns, depending on the work and the team’s needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.
Equal Opportunities at Arm
Arm is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Job ID 2026-17339
Date posted May. 11, 2026
Location Austin, Texas
Category Hardware Engineering
Job Overview
Engineering IT provides the high-performance compute platforms that enable Arm’s engineering teams to design, verify, and deliver world-class products. The team operates a mix of on-premises and cloud-based HPC environments, EDA enablement services, job scheduling platforms, automation tooling, and custom workflows that are critical to engineering productivity across Arm.
We are looking for an HPC Operations Engineer to help run, improve, and modernize these services. This role combines production operations, site reliability engineering, automation, cloud integration, and close collaboration with engineering users and infrastructure teams.
Responsibilities
- Operate, support, and continuously improve Arm’s HPC platforms, with a solid focus on IBM Spectrum LSF and related job scheduling services.
- Improve reliability, scalability, performance, and operational efficiency through automation, observability, standardization, and SRE practices.
- Develop automation and self-service capabilities to reduce manual operational effort and improve the user experience.
- Support production HPC environments, including incident response, solve, root cause analysis, service restoration, and continuous improvement.
- Work directly with engineering users to improve job scheduling behavior, workload performance, resource utilization, and platform efficiency.
- Develop and maintain scripts, tools, and automation frameworks using Python, Bash, and related technologies.
- Support modernization initiatives involving containers, Kubernetes, Docker, cloud-native services, Infrastructure as Code, and alternative scheduling or orchestration technologies.
- Contribute to cloud HPC integration across AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenStack, and hybrid environments.
- Collaborate with platform, cloud, storage, infrastructure, networking, and security teams to deliver robust engineering services.
- Contribute to project delivery by working with technical leads, architects, project managers, and operational team members.
- Help define and promote standards for DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, CI/CD, monitoring, and infrastructure automation.
Required Skills and Experience
- Experience operating HPC environments and job schedulers such as IBM Spectrum LSF, Slurm, PBS, Grid Engine, or similar.
- Strong Linux system administration experience, preferably with RHEL or RHEL-based distributions.
- Good scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, Shell, or similar languages.
- Experience supporting production infrastructure, including incident management, solve, operational recovery, and conducting RCA or comparable experience.
- Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, and observability platforms such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar.
- Experience building, maintaining, or supporting CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks.
- Experience with public, private, or hybrid cloud platforms, including AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenStack, and Kubernetes-based services.
- Understanding of DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, and operational excellence principles.
- Familiarity with Agile delivery practices and collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence.
- Ability to work with engineering users, understand workload requirements, and translate operational issues into practical improvements.
Desirable Experience
- Experience working in EDA or semiconductor engineering environments.
- Familiarity with EDA tools, license-aware scheduling, large-scale batch workloads, and engineering compute workflows.
- Exposure to container platforms and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Kubernetes-native scheduling.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
- Exposure to alternative schedulers such as Slurm or cloud-native workload orchestration systems.
- Experience using AI-assisted tooling, MCP, agentic services, or automation agents to improve diagnostics, operations, optimization, or self-service support.
- Experience operating large-scale distributed systems across both on-premises and cloud infrastructure.
Salary Range:
$130,100-$176,000 per year
We value people as individuals and our dedication is to reward people competitively and equitably for the work they do and the skills and experience they bring to Arm. Salary is only one component of Arm's offering. The total reward package will be shared with candidates during the recruitment and selection process.
Accommodations at Arm
At Arm, we want to build extraordinary teams. If you need an adjustment or an accommodation during the recruitment process, please email accommodations@arm.com. To note, by sending us the requested information, you consent to its use by Arm to arrange for appropriate accommodations. All accommodation or adjustment requests will be treated with confidentiality, and information concerning these requests will only be disclosed as necessary to provide the accommodation. Although this is not an exhaustive list, examples of support include breaks between interviews, having documents read aloud, or office accessibility. Please email us about anything we can do to accommodate you during the recruitment process.
Hybrid Working at Arm
Arm’s approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace, whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework, we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns, depending on the work and the team’s needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.
Equal Opportunities at Arm
Arm is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding E-3 Visa Sponsorship as a Hpc Engineer
Translate your HPC credentials for U.S. employers
Australian three-year bachelor's degrees in computer science or engineering are accepted as equivalent to U.S. four-year degrees for E-3 visa specialty occupation purposes. Gather official transcripts and a credential evaluation letter before outreach to remove any employer hesitation upfront.
Target national labs and cloud infrastructure teams
HPC sponsorship is concentrated in national laboratory contractors, hyperscaler infrastructure groups, and computational research divisions at universities. These employers run recurring HPC headcount and have existing E-3 workflows, reducing the internal approval friction you'd face at smaller firms.
Search E-3 sponsored HPC roles through Migrate Mate
Use Migrate Mate to filter HPC Engineer openings by E-3 sponsorship availability. The platform surfaces roles where employers have already indicated willingness to sponsor, saving you from screening dozens of listings that exclude visa candidates.
Confirm the LCA covers your actual work location
If your HPC role involves on-site work at a data center or national lab campus different from your employer's headquarters, the Labor Condition Application must list that specific worksite. Flag this with your employer before the DOL filing to avoid a mismatch that could delay your visa.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service for LCA and consulate paperwork
The LCA filing, DS-160 completion, and consulate document package all have interdependencies that create errors when handled piecemeal. Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service manages the entire process from offer letter to consulate appointment, coordinating each step in the correct sequence.
Prepare for specialty occupation questions at the consulate
Consular officers occasionally question whether HPC Engineer roles require a specific degree rather than general IT experience. Bring a detailed offer letter that ties your parallel computing, interconnect architecture, or performance optimization responsibilities directly to your engineering or computer science degree field.
E-3 Visa Hpc Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find HPC Engineer jobs that offer E-3 visa sponsorship?
Use Migrate Mate to search HPC Engineer roles filtered specifically for E-3 sponsorship. Most general job boards don't distinguish between H-1B and E-3 willing employers, so you end up cold-filtering manually. Migrate Mate surfaces roles where employers have already indicated they'll sponsor Australian nationals, which cuts out most of that screening work.
How much does it cost to get an E-3 visa?
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does an HPC Engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation for the E-3 visa?
Yes. HPC Engineer positions require at least a bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a closely related field, which meets the specialty occupation definition USCIS applies to E-3 petitions. Roles focused on parallel computing architecture, job scheduler optimization, or interconnect performance routinely clear this threshold. Where you need to be careful is if the job description is written broadly enough that any IT background would qualify, which can undermine the specialty occupation argument at the consulate.
How does the E-3 visa compare to the H-1B for HPC Engineers?
The E-3 has no annual lottery, so you can start work as soon as your consulate appointment clears rather than waiting for an October 1 start date. It renews indefinitely in two-year increments as long as you maintain qualifying employment. The trade-off is exclusivity: only Australian citizens can use it. H-1B has a broader cap of 85,000 per year but requires surviving a lottery with roughly a one-in-four selection rate for most applicants.
What happens to my E-3 status if I change HPC roles or employers?
The E-3 is employer-specific, so changing employers requires your new employer to file a fresh Labor Condition Application with the DOL and you to obtain a new E-3 visa stamp, typically at an Australian consulate. There's no portability provision like the one H-1B holders have after 180 days. Plan your transition timeline so your new LCA is certified before your current status expires to avoid any gap in work authorization.