Senior Research HPC Engineer

MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences; Greater London; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 68,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Defined benefit pension

30 days holiday

Cycle to work scheme

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

The MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences in London is seeking an experienced Senior Research HPC Engineer to design, manage and evolve the LMS HPC infrastructure. You will work across Linux systems, software installation, and cluster automation to support cutting-edge biomedical computing.

Successful candidates will combine hands-on engineering with scientific impact and collaborate with researchers, engineers and LMS IT colleagues to deliver robust, scalable HPC solutions in a SLURM-based cluster

Qualifications

• Experience administering Linux-based HPC systems.
• Proven expertise in high performance computing environments.
• Strong background in job scheduling and cluster automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, manage and develop the next generation of LMS HPC infrastructure.
• Improve performance, reliability, scalability and accessibility of HPC resources.
• Collaborate with LMS IT and researchers to translate needs into robust solutions.

Skills

Linux system administration

HPC engineering

Job scheduling

Performance monitoring

Tools

SLURM

Job description

Senior Research HPC Engineer

MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences

MRC Band 3-S1: £57,623 – £61,622 plus London Allowance £5,560 per annum

Higher salary of £61,622 – £67,693 plus London Allowance of £5,560 per annum will be available for candidates with significant relevant experience

Permanent contract

Hammersmith Hospital Campus, London, UK

About us

The MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) is a biomedical research institute where scientists and clinicians collaborate to advance the understanding of biology and its application to medicine. The LMS is home to more than 400 research staff and postgraduate students and is based at Hammersmith Hospital, with close links to Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. LMS IT operates its own dedicated HPC environment, which is extensively used by multidisciplinary research groups and Institute facilities. The LMS IT department currently manages a SLURM-based cluster comprising CPU, high-memory (HMEM), and GPU nodes, supporting a diverse range of computational research.

About the role

As the Institute’s computational requirements continue to grow, the postholder will take a proactive role in designing, managing, and developing the next generation of LMS HPC infrastructure. This will include identifying opportunities to improve performance, reliability, scalability, and accessibility, as well as exploring interactive computing solutions that can enable a broader range of researchers to make effective use of HPC resources.

The successful candidate will bring substantial knowledge and practical experience across a broad range of HPC and systems technologies, including Linux system administration, software installation and lifecycle management, job scheduling and configuration management, cluster automation, performance monitoring and optimisation, and working with LMS IT colleagues for general hardware maintenance.

About You

We are seeking an experience and motivated Senior Research HPC Engineer to join the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) and play a key role in expanding the Institute’s scientific computing capabilities. This is an exciting opportunity for an HPC professional who wants to combine hands‑on engineering with direct scientific impact, supporting cutting‑edge research in computational biology.

This role is particularly well suited to someone who enjoys hands‑on systems engineering, working with and developing scientific and computational workflows, exploring emerging technologies, collaborating closely with scientists, researchers and other engineers. The successful candidate will be expected to understand research needs and translate them into robust, practical, and sustainable technological solutions that enable biomedical scientific discovery.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer defined benefit pension scheme and excellent holiday entitlement (30 days plus 2.5 privilege days & 8 bank holidays), family friendly policies (6 months full pay maternity & adoption leave), a range of shopping/travel discounts, access to our Employee Assistant Programme Scheme, Health and Wellbeing Support and a salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme. Please follow this link to find out more – Benefits

Closing date: 18 October 2026

Final appointment will be subject to pre-employment screening

Please note that applications may be reviewed by both LMS and Imperial staff