Rescale

High Performance Computing Built for the Cloud

Technical Support Engineer (Japan)

Location
Tokyo / Remote (JP)
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
1+ years
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About the role

Rescale is high performance computing built for the cloud. We empower engineers while giving IT security and control. From supersonic jets to personalized medicine, industry leaders are bringing new product innovations to market with unprecedented speed and efficiency. Rescale is a cloud platform delivering intelligent full-stack automation and performance optimization. IT leaders use Rescale to deliver HPC-as-a-Service with a secure control plane to deliver any application, on any architecture, at any scale on their cloud of choice.

We are seeking a Technical Support Engineer to join our Japan team!

In this role, you will be responsible for the following:

  • Becoming an expert in the Rescale platform

  • Learning and supporting the state-of-the-art HPC workflows on the cloud

  • Providing the highest quality technical support to our customers

  • Working in a growing globally distributed support team

  • Operating in an interdisciplinary team environment with developers, engineers, business, and sales personnel

  • Rotating On-Call responsibilities as needed

Key Qualifications include:

  • BA/BS or higher in Engineering, Computer Science or related field

  • Experience using Linux shell, preferably as a system administrator

  • Deep understanding of basic compute technology (storage, memory, CPU, GPU, IO)

  • Understanding and familiarity with HPC and parallel computing (parallel scaling, MPI, shared. memory)

  • Knowledge of basic networking concepts (firewalls, ports, throughput, latency)

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

  • Nice to Haves: Hands on experience with parallel workflows, engineering simulations, benchmarking, HPC, schedulers, and MPI Experience with shell and Python scripting

  • Experience in working with Enterprise customers

  • Experience in a customer-facing role such as customer support, customer success, pre-sales, etc.

  • Fluency in Japanese and working knowledge of English

Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging are fundamental to our success. We strive to be a workplace where we:

  • Welcome ALL and ALL are welcome.

  • Show up with our whole selves or whichever parts of ourselves we’re comfortable sharing, and be ready to see the same in others. 

  • Be ready to learn, unlearn, and learn again. 

  • Respect others and their opinions. We practice empathy in the way we interact with each other and celebrate uniqueness as a team. 

  • Seek to understand - ask more questions than one makes statements.

  • Provide safety from judgment and preserve a collaborative environment.

Rescale is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment with Rescale will be contingent upon successful completion of a comprehensive background check.  

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About Rescale

Rescale provides a global software platform and hardware infrastructure for companies to perform scientific and engineering simulation.

  • We provide the largest, most secure, global high performance computing (HPC) footprint seamlessly integrated into an easy-to-use platform built for engineers and scientists. We are disrupting the staid on premise HPC world.
  • Not that long ago, we were a team of two, who rendered the Boeing 787 wing on commodity hardware, saving $150M in the process. Now we are a team of 50+ software engineers, computer scientists, and domain experts, helping advanced tech companies bring their complex use cases to the cloud.
  • Investors in Rescale include Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Chris Dixon, and Paul Graham, among others.
Rescale
Founded:2011
Team Size:250
Location:San Francisco
Founders
Adam McKenzie
Adam McKenzie
CTO
Joris Poort
Joris Poort
CEO