HPC Systems Engineer — Research Computing

Idaho Society of Professional Engineers; College Park (MD); On-site; USD 144,000 - 172,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Maryland, College Park, Division of Information Technology, is seeking an experienced HPC Engineer to design, deploy, operate, and maintain enterprise HPC resources. The role involves Linux-based hardware and software, collaboration with national HPC communities, and presenting at major conferences.

Applicants should have a bachelor’s degree and 3 years of HPC engineering experience, plus familiarity with parallel file systems, schedulers, Infiniband/Ethernet, cloud

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.
• Three (3) years of professional experience in HPC engineering or systems design.
• Familiarity with HPC technologies such as parallel file systems, schedulers, Infiniband and Ethernet networking, cloud integration, automated configuration management, and large scale software deployments.
• Experience with compliance frameworks such as NIST 800-171, CMMC, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the design, deployment, maintenance, and operation of UMD's enterprise HPC resources.
• Install, configure, document, troubleshoot, and maintain hardware, OS software, and application software on Linux platforms.
• Collaborate nationally with the HPC community and present at conferences like SuperComputing and PEARC.
• Interface with industry HPC providers to stay abreast of developments and ensure computing needs across campus are met.
• Work with campus constituents to understand compute needs and apply best practices for HPC architectures.

Skills

Unix/Linux internals

Distributed systems management

Federated auth (Shibboleth/LDAP)

HPC software stacks

Python/Perl/Shell

HPC applications install/configure

Problem solving & analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

The University of Maryland, College Park, Division of Information Technology, is seeking an experienced HPC Engineer to design, deploy, operate, and maintain enterprise HPC resources. The role involves Linux-based hardware and software, collaboration with national HPC communities, and presenting at major conferences.

Applicants should have a bachelor’s degree and 3 years of HPC engineering experience, plus familiarity with parallel file systems, schedulers, Infiniband/Ethernet, cloud