HPC Platform Lead for Biomedical Research & Innovation

massgeneralbrigham; Somerville (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Mass General Brigham is seeking a Senior Manager of HPC Engineering to lead the engineering, architecture, reliability, and ongoing evolution of a high-performance computing platform supporting data-intensive biomedical research. The role partners with the HPC Researcher Experience team to ensure reliability, security, and scalability while maturing services like data adjacency and enclave computing.

You will manage vendor relationships, drive automation, and oversee change management, incident

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy, operating model, reliability, and continuous improvement of the HPC platform, including compute, storage, networking, operating systems, configuration, software, automation, monitoring, and operational standards.
• Own the HPC platform architecture and technical roadmap, ensuring that compute, storage, networking, software, automation, security, data adjacency, enclave capabilities, and operational capabilities evolve to meet current and future research needs.
• Lead engineering activities for HPC hardware, GPU and CPU compute nodes, high-speed interconnects, storage systems, network connectivity, operating system images, firmware, drivers, configuration management, and platform lifecycle management.
• Own the scientific computing software environment, including schedulers, modules, containers, compilers, libraries, researcher applications, Open OnDemand, and other tools required to support data-intensive biomedical research workloads.
• Own workload management practices for the HPC environment, including scheduler configuration, queues, partitions, job policies, GPU and CPU allocation, fair-share models, utilization optimization, and performance tuning.
• Lead benchmarking and performance engineering practices, including workload profiling, bottleneck analysis, system tuning, baseline benchmark development, vendor performance validation, and evaluation of emerging technologies to improve platform performance and researcher productivity.
• Lead capacity planning and platform lifecycle planning, including utilization forecasting, hardware refresh planning, storage growth analysis, procurement input, and recommendations for future platform investments.
• Own change, release, and configuration management practices for the HPC platform, ensuring that system updates, software deployments, security patches, configuration changes, and maintenance activities are planned, tested, documented, and communicated.
• Establish engineering practices for platform resilience and operational continuity, including backup and recovery coordination, maintenance planning, runbooks, recovery procedures, change controls, and incident readiness.
• Develop and mature automation for user provisioning, storage provisioning, access controls, environment configuration,

Job description

Mass General Brigham is seeking a Senior Manager of HPC Engineering to lead the engineering, architecture, reliability, and ongoing evolution of a high-performance computing platform supporting data-intensive biomedical research. The role partners with the HPC Researcher Experience team to ensure reliability, security, and scalability while maturing services like data adjacency and enclave computing.

You will manage vendor relationships, drive automation, and oversee change management, incident