Hybrid HPC Systems Lead: Clusters, GPUs & Supercomputers

Life in Pittsburgh; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Hybrid; USD 400,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Sign-on bonus

Year-end bonus

Generous benefits package

Job summary

Pittsburgh Tomorrow is seeking a Systems Engineering Lead to direct the teams that build and run the institution’s compute platforms used for computational drug discovery. The role combines leadership of Linux clusters, GPU systems, and storage with a focus on reliability, security, and usability for researchers.

You’ll guide SLURM and Kubernetes-based operations, scale thousands of cores and hundreds of GPUs, and architect high-performance networks and cloud integrations.

Qualifications

• Strong grounding in Linux fundamentals, including file systems, networking, and processes, plus hands-on Linux Systems Administration.
• Ability to explain technical reasoning to experts and non-specialists alike.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering groups responsible for building and running the client's compute clusters and the software stack on top of them.
• Direct the operation of Linux clusters scheduled with Slurm and Kubernetes, at scales from the low thousands of cores into the tens of thousands.
• Scale GPU clusters numbering hundreds of GPUs and storage systems holding tens of petabytes of research data.
• Architect high-performance RDMA fabrics, wide-area networking, and public cloud environments.
• Support the large-scale scientific workflows behind the client's drug discovery research.
• Deliver all of these resources to researchers in a form that is both secure and easy to use.
• Communicate clearly with research users and fellow engineers about priorities, tradeoffs, and system health.

Skills

Linux fundamentals

HPC systems engineering

Distributed systems

Systems software

Software development

Security tools deployment

Education

Graduate/Doctoral work in HPC or distributed computing

Tools

Slurm

Kubernetes

Python scripting

RDMA networking

Public cloud environments

Job description

Pittsburgh Tomorrow is seeking a Systems Engineering Lead to direct the teams that build and run the institution’s compute platforms used for computational drug discovery. The role combines leadership of Linux clusters, GPU systems, and storage with a focus on reliability, security, and usability for researchers.

You’ll guide SLURM and Kubernetes-based operations, scale thousands of cores and hundreds of GPUs, and architect high-performance networks and cloud integrations.