NMC² Graduate Program

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The Company NorthMark Compute & Cloud (NMC²) is backed by dedicated leadership and investment, with a clear mission as it operates at the bleeding edge of technology. Its goal is to scale and enhance the high-performance computing (HPC) and cloud infrastructure that supports its clients’ research, production, and delivery, enabling breakthroughs that shape the industries of tomorrow. Its engineers build critical infrastructure to eliminate friction in scientific research, simulations, analysis, and decision-making, accelerating discovery and driving faster innovation. Graduate Engineering Program NorthMark’s Graduate Engineering Program is a full-time opportunity based in Dallas, Texas, designed for recent or upcoming graduates who are ready to begin their careers in high-impact, technically challenging roles. Our program offers a structured, hands-on introduction to engineering at scale, with a focus on rapid growth, continuous learning, and meaningful contribution from day one. Graduates join as full-time members of the engineering team, with immediate responsibility and the opportunity to contribute to real-world systems powering some of the most demanding computational workloads in the industry. You’ll work across domains such as software engineering, infrastructure automation, platform development, network operations, and high-performance compute environments. The program includes: Dedicated mentorship and technical onboarding Structured opportunities for learning and development A collaborative, hybrid work environment (Dallas-based) Access to cutting-edge tools and infrastructure The opportunity to specialize over time while gaining broad exposure early in your career Learn more about the hiring teams below: Product: Our Product team shapes the direction of NMC2’s products and services. By bringing together customer insights, market research and business context we develop the long-term roadmaps and then collaborate with teams across the business - in particular Engineering - to turn them into reality, partnering with our customers to deliver the best outcomes for them and our organization. This role is designed for recent graduates who are eager to begin a career in product management and want to help deliver innovative, customer-focused solutions. You will gain exposure to the full product lifecycle, from strategy and discovery through to delivery and continuous improvement, and work closely teams across the business to ensure we build the right solutions for the right problems. You'll also benefit from the mentorship and experience of senior product managers as you develop your skills and establish yourself in the field. Developer Platform: The Developer Platforms team builds and maintains the tools and automation that power how engineering teams at NMC2 build, ship, and manage software. Our mission is to make developers' lives easier by providing self-service capabilities that remove friction and let teams focus on building great products. We own the Internal Developer Portal, where engineers can access self-service workflows to quickly create, build, and deploy applications , with the underlying tooling, pipelines, and configurations set up automatically behind the scenes. We're continually expanding these workflows to support more of the software development lifecycle. We also manage our infrastructure as code, spanning both platform tooling and cloud resources , all provisioned and governed through code with the right guardrails and controls built in. DevOps: The DevOps team owns and operates the core SDLC tooling that engineering relies on at NMC2 , including GitHub, JFrog Artifactory, ArgoCD, and our Harness CI systems. They ensure these platforms are reliable, secure, and scalable so that teams across the organization can build and ship software with confidence. They work closely with the Developer Platforms team to integrate this tooling into the self-service automation and workflows that power the developer experience. This partnership ensures the underlying platforms and the automation built on top of them work seamlessly together. The team also owns our ArgoCD architecture, managing Argo across a large fleet of Kubernetes clusters spanning both cloud and on-prem environments. This involves designing for scale, maintaining consistency across clusters, and enabling GitOps-based delivery throughout the organization. Data Engineering: The Data Engineering & Analytics team builds and operates a secure, governed, and scalable enterprise data platform that enables analytics, AI, applications, and business reporting across the organization. Our work includes batch and real-time data engineering, streaming platforms, cloud and on-premises data architecture, data quality, governance, metadata, and publishing trusted, reusable data products. Interns and new graduates will gain hands-on experience with modern technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, Flink, Apache Iceberg, Trino, Python, SQL, Terraform and infrastructure automation while working alongside experienced engineers on meaningful enterprise use cases. We are looking for curious, collaborative individuals who enjoy solving complex data problems, learning emerging technologies, and building solutions that deliver measurable business value. Innovation Architecture: The Innovation Architecture Group works at the forefront of HPC, exploring, benchmarking, and integrating emerging technologies across compute, GPU infrastructure, high-speed networking, storage, hardware, and software. The team evaluates new products and future technology roadmaps from established industry leaders and innovative start-ups, testing their performance and efficiency in real-world lab environments. Through hands-on engineering, workload benchmarking, and research, the group identifies system bottlenecks, improves cluster utilization, and determines how new technologies can work together within a cohesive HPC architecture. The team also collaborates closely with customers, technology partners, and specialist architects to understand evolving workload requirements and translate the latest advancements into the high-performance computing platforms of the future. Network Automation: Our Network Automation team is responsible for designing and building the software platform behind NMC2's global network infrastructure — the tools, services, and frameworks that enable automated, scalable, and self-service networking. As a new graduate, you will work closely with experienced engineers to grow your skills across both networking and software engineering while contributing to projects that improve how we provision, monitor, and operate networks at scale. You'll develop code, automation workflows, and CI/CD pipelines that directly impact how our research and compute environments run, working with technologies like Python, Kubernetes, Neo4j, and modern cloud-native tooling, and building best practices in Infrastructure-as-Code and observability along the way. We're also an AI-forward team — we use Claude to help build, manage, and evolve our platform, so you'll learn how to work alongside AI agents to ship faster. This role is ideal for early-career engineers who are passionate about combining software engineering with networking and want to grow their expertise in automation within a large-scale, high-performance compute environment. Security Engineering: Our Security Engineering team is responsible for securing the applications and services that power our company, ensuring strong application security across the engineering lifecycle. As a Graduate Security Engineer, you’ll work at the intersection of AppSec and developer tooling; building and enhancing in-house security tools, integrating automated scanning into our pipelines and helping teams identify and remediate vulnerabilities early in the development lifecycle. You’ll contribute to improving dependency security, strengthening runtime protections and shaping the secure architecture of internal applications. This role offers hands-on experience designing practical security solutions that enable engineers to move quickly while keeping our platform safe, giving you a unique opportunity to influence how modern application security is embedded at scale. Customer Experience: Our CX team owns the relationship between NMC2 and the customers running large-scale GPU environments on our infrastructure. As a Graduate on the CX team, you'll sit at the intersection of deep technical infrastructure and customer outcomes, learning how HPC platforms behave in production and how to translate that into clear, credible communication for highly technical customers. You'll work alongside our technical account managers and solutions architects and collaborate closely with our customers, architects, product teams to solve real-world problems from some of the most high-demanding HPC users. Service Management: Our Service Management team owns the operational disciplines and tooling that keep NMC²'s global HPC and cloud infrastructure running reliably — incident, change, and problem management, the service catalogue, and the platforms (Jira Service Management, Confluence, and Jira Assets) that every engineering team relies on. As a graduate, you'll take real responsibility from day one, working across process design, service automation, and our growing use of AI in service operations. Your projects will center on applying automation and AI to real operational problems; improving how services are delivered, monitored, and continually improved. You'll build deep expertise in ITSM and ITIL practice while helping shape how a modern, high-performance engineering organization manages its services at scale. AI Engineering: The AI Engineering and Enablement team is charged with ensuring that the organization has access to the AI related tooling and capabilities that allow for the every team within the organization to build applications, agents, and infrastructure that incorporates AI elements and solutions. This mandate means that we d eploy and maintain the path through which every person and application reaches AI inferencing services, w ork with teams across the organization to develop applications that incorporate AI based judgement, and d evelop and deploy on-premise models (both fine tuned and OW/OSS). Fleet Automation: The Fleet Automation team builds applications and automation for a large-scale HPC environment, working across data center infrastructure, storage, networking, Kubernetes, and workload scheduling. In 2027, we will focus on solutions that improve the efficiency, reliability, and scalability of our organization. Interns and new graduates will work alongside experienced engineers on meaningful production projects, gaining hands-on experience across the full development lifecycle. Our technology stack includes Temporal, Go, Python, C#, and TypeScript, and our work supports GPU platforms spanning NVIDIA V100 through GB300. This team is an excellent fit for candidates who are excited about AI, HPC, automation, and solving complex infrastructure challenges at scale. HPC Network Engineering: At NMC2, the HPC network and security engineering team builds and runs the network infrastructure behind large-scale HPC (high-performance computing) environments — the kind of fabric that connects thousands of GPUs so they can train AI models and run massive workloads without a hiccup. It's not routine helpdesk networking: engineers here work hands-on with InfiniBand and high-speed datacenter fabrics, build out brand-new GPU datacenters from the ground up (like the current GSP1 site in Spartanburg, SC), and treat the company's own WAN like a product — running it with the same rigor an ISP would, across POPs from Iceland to Japan. The team spans everything from network security and automation to a dedicated WAN group, so someone starting out gets exposure to real enterprise-scale architecture, vendor and hardware troubleshooting, and the operational discipline (change management, incident response, monitoring platforms) that separates production networking from a lab exercise — a strong environment for building deep technical chops fast. It is impossible to list every requirement for, or responsibility of, any position. Similarly, we cannot identify all the skills a position may require since job responsibilities and the Company’s needs may change over time. Therefore, the above job description is not comprehensive or exhaustive. The Company reserves the right to adjust, add to or eliminate any aspect of the above description. The Company also retains the right to require all employees to undertake additional or different job responsibilities when necessary to meet business needs. Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future. Benefits & Perks: Company-Paid Lunch Stipend : Lunch is provided via GrubHub Company-Paid Benefits: 100% Employer-Paid Medical in our High Deductible Health Plan, Dental and Vision benefits for employees and their families, 16 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Employee Assistance Program, Life insurance, Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability 401(k): Company will match 100% of your contributions up to 6% Optional Employee-Paid Benefits: Medical insurance in our PPO plan and a variety of other benefits such as Health Savings Accounts (with Company Contribution!), Flexible Spending Accounts, Supplemental Life Insurance, Wellhub and more. Time Off: 25 days of Paid Time Off plus 12 company holidays EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER NORTHMARK STRATEGIES LLC IS AN EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. 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