Senior Research HPC Engineer - Accelerate Discovery

UKRI; Greater London; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

UKRI in London is seeking a Senior Research HPC Engineer to lead development of Scientific Computing infrastructure and scalable tools for researchers. You will design, deploy, and maintain HPC services, containers, and workflows, aligning with strategic goals and research needs.

The role requires extensive experience with Linux HPC, SLURM, and software packaging, plus strong collaboration with researchers and cross‑functional IT teams to deliver reliable, high‑performance solutions.

Qualifications

• Degree in computing/scientific research or engineering with a significant computational component
• Significant experience working at a high level in a relevant HPC/research environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver Scientific Computing infrastructure and resilient services aligned with strategic goals
• Translate experimental requirements into scalable computational solutions
• Support researchers in using HPC, triage issues, and drive platform improvements
• Build and maintain reproducible runtimes, containers, and workflows for compute workloads
• Coordinate HPC training and onboarding for users
• Manage projects to stay within scope, cost, and timelines
• Monitor, report, and promote HPC services and usage
• Design communication strategies and engage stakeholders via user groups
• Create training materials, runbooks, and onboarding docs
• Benchmark services against similar organisations and track research trends

Skills

Linux Admin

SLURM

Spack/EasyBuild/Lmod/conda

Docker/Singularity

Bash scripting

Git/GitHub

Active Directory integration

HPC security

Troubleshooting

Education

Degree in computing/scientific research/engineering

Tools

Linux

Virtualisation

Containerisation

Job description

UKRI in London is seeking a Senior Research HPC Engineer to lead development of Scientific Computing infrastructure and scalable tools for researchers. You will design, deploy, and maintain HPC services, containers, and workflows, aligning with strategic goals and research needs.

The role requires extensive experience with Linux HPC, SLURM, and software packaging, plus strong collaboration with researchers and cross‑functional IT teams to deliver reliable, high‑performance solutions.