HPC Research Engineer — Hybrid, Training & Pension

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 43,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Occupational pension scheme

Generous annual leave

Hybrid working

Training and development opportunities

Job summary

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) invites applications for a Research HPC Support Engineer to contribute to the design, deployment and optimisation of advanced computing infrastructure. You will support HPC clusters, GPU acceleration, networking and data storage to enable high-level computational research and AI projects.

Collaborating with researchers and technical teams, you will implement open-source build frameworks, apply DevOps practices using Python, Perl, Bash

Qualifications

• Strong HPC expertise with GPU systems and HPC clusters.
• Experience administering and optimising HPC environments (Slurm/OpenPBS/K8).
• Hands-on with HPC build/installation tooling (Spack, Easybuild).
• Proficiency in scripting (Python, Perl, Bash) and DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, maintain and optimise HPC infrastructure and GPU accelerators.
• Collaborate with researchers and technical teams to deliver scalable HPC solutions.
• Implement open-source build frameworks and automate deployment and configuration.

Skills

HPC systems

GPU systems

Cluster administration

Slurm/OpenPBS/K8

Scripting: Python

Scripting: Perl

Scripting: Bash

Ansible

DevOps practices

Tools

Spack

Easybuild

Job description

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) invites applications for a Research HPC Support Engineer to contribute to the design, deployment and optimisation of advanced computing infrastructure. You will support HPC clusters, GPU acceleration, networking and data storage to enable high-level computational research and AI projects.

Collaborating with researchers and technical teams, you will implement open-source build frameworks, apply DevOps practices using Python, Perl, Bash