---
id: 155
title: External-Job Capability
group: v1.7.0 Features
---

**Purpose:** A default-off capability that externalizes long-running compute as asynchronous external jobs, e.g. SLURM submission (#1165).

**Configuration:** `external_job.submit_timeout_ms`, `external_job.poll_timeout_ms`, `external_job.artifact_dir` (#1164)