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# Senior Systems Engineer I

- **Company:** Schrodinger, Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $152,652.0 - $163,900.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Systems Engineering, Bash Shell, Code Review, Computer Engineering, Python (Programming Language), Molecular Modeling, Ansible, High Performance Computing, Information Technology, Terraform
- **Published:** July 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/75FE1F09F55E48789019C301ED0A65FD/job/

## About the Role

Requirements: Must possess a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a closely related field plus 5 years of experience (or a Master's degree + 3 years) as a Systems Administrator, Systems Engineer, Systems Analyst, Server Engineer or closely related occupation involving High Performance Computing. Must possess at least 3 years of experience in the following: Taking full responsibility for the planning, execution and delivery of engineering features/epics/project deliverables; Peer code review and peer mentorship; Using Ansible, Terraform or AWS Cloud Formation to define, deploy & maintain infrastructure; Identifying manual infrastructure configurations & proactively converting them to automated IaC solutions; Optimizing IaC for speed, completeness, idempotency & maintainability; Designing & implementing moderately complex systems & architectures; Utilizing Linux/Unix Systems Administration to perform daily system administration tasks; Utilizing Bash &
Python to automate repetitive cluster management tasks, write monitoring scripts & develop custom tools; Supporting computational chemistry and molecular modeling software; Translating scientific requirements into HPC infrastructure needs; Using profiling tools & system logs to diagnose hardware, network & software problems affecting large-scale workloads; Involvement in the lifecycle planning of servers; Conducting cost-performance analyses; Building, upgrading & maintaining HPC software stacks; and, creating & maintaining internal HPC documentation, guides, and troubleshooting playbooks. May work from home but must be able to report to New York, New York office at least 2 days per week. Salary is $152,652 to $163,900 per year. Qualified applicants must send resumes to apply@schrodinger.com ref: 625847. Direct applicants only.



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