Research HPC Engineer: Slurm, Secure Clusters & On-Call

Harvard Medical School; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous paid time off

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Retirement plans with university contributions

Professional development opportunities

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Harvard Medical School is seeking a High-Performance Computing Engineer to support the implementation and operation of secure HPC environments for computational research. The role involves managing compute clusters, workload scheduling, and ensuring compliance. The ideal candidate will have experience with Linux systems and be a strong collaborator. This position offers opportunities for professional development and contributions to biomedical discovery in a diverse and inclusive environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum of two years’ post-secondary education or relevant work experience.
• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• Experience managing Linux-based systems in a research or academic environment.
• Familiarity with workload schedulers (Slurm preferred), cluster provisioning, or performance tuning.
• Experience with infrastructure monitoring and configuration management.
• Understanding of security and compliance frameworks relevant to research computing.

Responsibilities

• Provision, configure, and decommission HPC compute clusters.
• Administer workload schedulers to ensure efficient job management.
• Maintain secure, regulated compute environments.
• Contribute to the integration of user accounts.
• Support development and maintenance of scripts used in cluster operations.
• Monitor system health and respond to alerts.

Skills

Linux-based systems management

Troubleshooting

Communication

Collaboration

Configuration management (e.g., Ansible)

Containerization (e.g., Docker)

Education

Bachelor's degree

Two years' relevant work experience

Tools

Slurm

Apptainer/Singularity

Docker

Job description

Harvard Medical School is seeking a High-Performance Computing Engineer to support the implementation and operation of secure HPC environments for computational research. The role involves managing compute clusters, workload scheduling, and ensuring compliance. The ideal candidate will have experience with Linux systems and be a strong collaborator. This position offers opportunities for professional development and contributions to biomedical discovery in a diverse and inclusive environment.