Engineer - HPC Platform

Xenon7•Chicago, IL

About The Position

Xenon7 is recruiting for its client, a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. The client’s Cardiometabolic Research (CMR) Therapeutic Area discovers biologic, small molecule, and genetic therapeutics for cardiometabolic diseases and related complications. The Cloud and Connectivity organization is seeking an HPC Platform Engineer to enable analytical, statistical, and scientific computing capabilities within high-performance computing infrastructure. The engineer will help advance high-performance computing innovation by designing, building, maintaining, and operating scalable HPC platforms across public cloud and on-premises environments. The role focuses on platform availability and performance, enabling HPC infrastructure and user experiences, and supporting research and scientific workflows. The position offers an attractive, market-leading salary package and a clear career advancement path with professional development opportunities.

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.
Identify opportunities to accelerate the organization’s HPC journey and develop expertise in deploying HPC solutions.