Engineer - HPC Platform

Xenon7•Ohio City, OH

About The Position

The Cloud and Connectivity organization is seeking an engineer to enable analytical, statistical, and scientific computing capabilities within high-performance computing infrastructure. The HPC Platform Engineer will help advance high-performance computing innovation by leading the engineering and operations involved in designing, building, and maintaining scalable HPC platforms. The role supports HPC infrastructure and user experiences, collaborating with researchers and scientists to optimize performance and streamline workflows. It uses tooling and automation for orchestration, resource scheduling, data access, and reproducibility, and operates public cloud and on-premises environments with an emphasis on availability and performance for HPC workloads. The engineer will define and monitor infrastructure metrics and resource utilization. The position calls for a proactive, adaptable engineer with strong platform engineering skills who can advance initiatives for critical business projects, learn new HPC technologies, and help deploy HPC solutions. The client is a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Its Cardiometabolic Research Therapeutic Area focuses on discovering biologic, small-molecule, and genetic therapeutics for cardiometabolic diseases and associated complications.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
At least 5 years of experience as an HPC Platform Engineer.
Demonstrated experience leading a global, large-scale infrastructure project.
Hands-on experience with HPC platforms, including accelerators such as GPUs, HPC schedulers such as Altair Grid Engine or Slurm, Kubernetes platforms, and container technologies such as Docker or Apptainer.
Demonstrated experience with HPC workloads, infrastructure, and cluster architectures.
Expertise with the Linux command line, Linux troubleshooting, and HPC administration.
Experience with DevOps tools such as GitHub, Chef, Ansible, and Terraform.
Experience automating infrastructure and applications.
Strong programming and scripting skills in languages such as Python or Bash.
Passion for continual learning and staying informed about new HPC technologies, infrastructure trends, and approaches.

Responsibilities

Lead the engineering and operations involved in designing, building, and maintaining scalable HPC platforms.
Enable HPC infrastructure and user experiences.
Collaborate with researchers and scientists to optimize performance and streamline workflows.
Use tooling and automation for orchestration, resource scheduling, data access, and reproducibility.
Evolve and operate public cloud and on-premises environments, focusing on availability and performance for HPC workloads.
Define and monitor infrastructure metrics and resource utilization.
Advance initiatives that enable critical business projects.
Keep learning about new technologies in HPC.