Senior HPC Engineer

Red Bull; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading motorsport company in Milton Keynes is looking for a High Performance Computing Engineer to design, implement, and manage high-performance computing platforms for vehicle dynamics and simulation systems. Your role will involve collaborating with vendors and internal teams to enhance computing efficiency and security. Ideal candidates will possess extensive experience in administering Linux clusters, coding in Python, and knowledge of HPC applications. This role also offers benefits such as a bonus scheme, private healthcare, and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Bonus scheme

Private healthcare

Pension scheme

On-site gym

Free daily food allowance

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge administering Linux clusters and job schedulers.
• Experience with programming languages such as Python.
• Knowledge of HPC application methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain high performance computing systems.
• Provide technical support and manage problem escalations.
• Implement strategies for data management and security.

Skills

Administering Linux clusters

Programming in Python

Network expertise

Benchmarking methodologies

Security practices in HPC

Configuration management tools

Container orchestration tools

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

IBM Spectrum

Job description

Supporting excellence on and off the track, our business functions are the backbone of our success. Our talented teams ensure everything runs at peak efficiency in a fast-paced, high-performance environment. If you’re passionate, driven, and ready to make an impact behind the scenes of elite motorsport, we want to hear from you!

Purpose:

Implement high performance computing platforms for CFD, powertrain, mechanical simulation and vehicle dynamics systems. Conduct HPC projects from requirements definition through to delivery and manage integrations with emerging technology. Support the operation and continuous improvement of HPC infrastructure to provide a reliable, high performance, scalable, cost effective and secure environment.

Accountabilities:

• Design, implement and maintain innovative high performance computing systems for the Technology Campus
• Provide advanced technical support and manage problem escalations from HPC users
• Own the delivery of existing on-prem and in-cloud CFD cluster and storage platforms, ensuring systems are reliable, secure and highly performant, and proactively monitoring the environment for issues and areas of optimisation
• Work closely with vendors to leverage their expertise and solutions, making use of technical partnerships to improve performance, inform future technical direction, execute proof of concepts and to implement new technology
• Work closely with key internal teams to provide technical oversight, training and consultation, ensuring that new emerging HPC-enabled projects are robust, supportable and follow best practice

Additional Accountabilities:

• Coach and support the HPC platform engineering team
• Develop software, automation and scripts with a particular focus on site reliability
• Participate in team projects, change management and take an active role in reviewing architecture of new solutions
• Implement strategies for research data management, backup and cloud tiering which are effective, secure and scalable
• Maintain high quality documentation and knowledge base for HPC related areas

Essential Competencies:

• Expert knowledge administering Linux clusters, job schedulers and filesystems
• Experience in a programming language, such as Python
• Network expertise including Infiniband MPI and Ethernet
• Knowledge of engineering HPC applications, benchmarking and profiling methodologies
• Awareness of good security practice within a HPC system
• Experience with configuration management and infrastructure as code tools (Ansible, Terraform, Git, Vault)
• Knowledge of IBM Spectrum software defined infrastructure solutions (Scale, Protect, LSF, Symphony)
• Knowledge of container orchestration tools and integration within a HPC environment

Ready to be part of a team that pushes boundaries both on and off the track? At Red Bull Racing, we believe in rewarding excellence and fuelling potential. As part of our Support Functions team, you’ll enjoy a competitive package of benefits designed to keep you at your best—on every level.

That includes access to:

• Bonus scheme
• Private healthcare
• A pension scheme
• On-site gym
• Free daily food allowance
• And many more!