Lead Scientific Computing & HPC Infra for AI & Genomics

Spanish National Cancer Research Centre; Madrid; Presencial; EUR 70.000 - 95.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

CNIO in Madrid is seeking a Senior Scientific Computing Engineer to lead the IT, Scientific Computing and AI area and shape the future of its computational infrastructure. You will own the HPC cluster (Slurm), drive GPU/AI infra, and collaborate with researchers to make analyses reproducible.

The role requires several years of experience managing Linux HPC environments, automation and container tools, and a strategic mindset to define direction beyond keeping the lights on.

Formación

• Experience running Linux HPC environments in production (Slurm or similar).
• Familiar with automation tools (Ansible, Python) and containers (Apptainer/Docker).
• Able to define direction and roadmap for scientific computing.
• Experience with GPU/AI infrastructure and ML workloads is a plus.
• Spanish not required.

Responsabilidades

• Shape the roadmap for scientific computing at the centre.
• Own and evolve HPC cluster (Slurm): scheduling, monitoring, capacity planning, user support.
• Build GPU/AI infrastructure as ML workloads grow.
• Collaborate with researchers to turn analyses into reproducible pipelines.
• Optional: co-author research papers.

Conocimientos

Slurm HPC

Automation

Python

Ansible

Containers

Apptainer

Docker

Nextflow

Snakemake

Kubernetes

Ceph

GPU stacks

Bioinformatics

Descripción del empleo

CNIO in Madrid is seeking a Senior Scientific Computing Engineer to lead the IT, Scientific Computing and AI area and shape the future of its computational infrastructure. You will own the HPC cluster (Slurm), drive GPU/AI infra, and collaborate with researchers to make analyses reproducible.

The role requires several years of experience managing Linux HPC environments, automation and container tools, and a strategic mindset to define direction beyond keeping the lights on.