Job Description:

Lead High Performance Computing Engineer

Office of Information Technology

Brown University seeks a Lead High Performance Computing Engineer to provide technical leadership to HPC engineering staff, coordinate team, and guide architectural and operational decisions for the HPC environment. Design, deploy, and maintain university’s high-performance computing cluster. Configure and maintain the workload scheduler and architect quality-of-service policies. Administer Linux systems across infrastructure projects and deployment of new GPUs for research and teaching. Troubleshoot complex system and application issues involving compute, GPU, storage, and scheduling systems. Deploy and support AI workloads, including TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Jax. Conduct vendor evaluations, proof of concept to adopt new HPC, GPU, and storage technologies. Provide advanced technical support to faculty and researchers.

Qualifications:

Must have bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and 3 years of experience in Linux systems administration, including background in the following: 1) Research computing environment; 2) RHEL/CentOS Linux operating management; 3) Systems architectures, security, networking, storage systems, parallel computing, batch/scheduling systems; 4) Programming languages such as C, C++, bash, Perl, etc.; 5) Source control systems such at Git; 6) Log correlation software such as Sumologic; 7) Large-scale research computing platforms such as Globus, HPC environments, SLURM, GPFS; and 8) Machine Learning Frameworks, including Tensorflow.

A hybrid onsite schedule is required.

Benefits of Working at Brown:

Information on the Benefits of Working at Brown can be found here.

Recruiting Start Date:

2026-03-19

Job Posting Title:

Lead High Performance Computing Engineer

Department:

Office of Information Technology

Grade:

Grade 11

Worker Type:

Employee

Worker Sub-Type:

Regular

Time Type:

Full time

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

37.5

Position Work Location:

Hybrid

Submission Guidelines:

Please note that in order to be considered an applicant for any staff position at Brown University you must submit an application form for each position for which you believe you are qualified. Applications are not kept on file for future positions. Please include a cover letter and resume with each position application.

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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