HPC Applications & Performance Engineer

Jobtailor; Minnesota; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a senior HPC/AI performance engineer to support pre- and post-sales benchmarking and analysis. You will work with engineering, management and marketing to shape product directions and performance features across large-scale computing platforms.

Responsibilities include leading performance studies, maintaining knowledge of HPC/AI benchmarks and presenting actionable recommendations in technical reports to customers and internal teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelors, Master’s or PhD in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or equivalent.
• 7+ years of demonstrated experience with high-end HPC systems and performance analysis/tuning of scalable HPC applications.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; mastery of English required.
• U.S. citizenship required.
• Experience with large-scale HPC systems and software.
• Experience with large-scale AI systems and software is preferred.
• Understanding of multiprocessor and GPU architectures and parallel programming (OpenMP, MPI, CUDA, HIP).
• Proficiency with industry-standard HPC benchmarks (HPL, HPCG, OSU MPI, NCCL/RCCL) on CPUs/GPUs preferred.
• Experience with performance projection methodologies to model performance of alternate system architectures.

Responsibilities

• Provide pre‑ and post‑sales technical and benchmarking support to enable HPC or AI customer opportunities.
• Collaborate with HPE product engineering, product management, and marketing to influence current and future product capabilities and direction.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and assess their impact on product differentiation (performance and features) for key customer applications.
• Develop and maintain current knowledge of HPC/AI products and performance optimization techniques to ensure high‑quality benchmark results.
• Lead application‑focused performance studies and projects, and author technical reports and papers communicating findings and recommendations.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Communication skills

HPC performance analysis

Education

Bachelor's, Master's or PhD in CS/Engineering/Math

Tools

OpenMP

MPI

CUDA

HIP

HPL benchmark

NCCL/RCCL

Job description

Responsibilities

• Provide pre‑and post‑sales technical and benchmarking support to enable HPC or AI customer opportunities
• Collaborate with HPE product engineering, product management, and marketing to influence current and future product capabilities and direction
• Evaluate emerging technologies and assess their impact on product differentiation (performance and features) for key customer applications
• Develop and maintain current knowledge of HPE and competitor HPC/AI products and performance optimization techniques to ensure the team continues to deliver high‑quality benchmark results
• Lead application‑focused performance studies and projects, and author technical reports and papers that communicate findings and recommendations

Requirements

• Bachelors, Master’s or PhD degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or equivalent
• 7+ years of demonstrated experience with high‑end HPC systems and performance analysis/tuning of scalable HPC applications
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; mastery of English required
• U.S. citizenship required
• Experience with large‑scale HPC systems and software
• Experience with large‑scale AI systems and software is preferred
• Detailed understanding of multiprocessor and GPU hardware architectures, capabilities, and parallel programming techniques (e.g., OpenMP, MPI, CUDA, HIP)
• Proficiency with key industry‑standard HPC benchmarks (e.g., HPL, HPCG, OSU MPI, NCCL/RCCL) on CPUs and GPUs is preferred
• Experience with performance projection methodologies to model performance of alternate system architectures using performance measurement tools and techniques is preferred