Senior Architect and Technical Lead - Open Portable Integrations for Agentic Research Computing

Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology seeks a Senior Architect and Technical Lead for the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Council. This role involves leading the development of an innovative AI environment for research, both on-premise and in the cloud, and requires extensive technical experience and leadership skills. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in high-performance computing, scientific software, and team supervision. A Bachelor's degree and at least ten years of relevant experience are required.

Qualifications

• Minimum of ten years relevant experience in technical fields and/or computational research.
• Experience in research institutes with knowledge of scientific software.
• Understanding of large-scale advanced research computing environments.

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical lead and senior architect for an innovative agentic AI.
• Lead initiative for a unified, researcher-centric computing experience.
• Collaborate with a team to develop core portability tools.

Skills

Leadership in technical teams

Scientific software knowledge

High-performance computing expertise

Software management

AI and Bayesian methods application

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Advanced degree in a relevant technical field

Tools

Linux container technologies (LXC, Apptainer)

Open-source schedulers (e.g., Slurm)

Job description

Senior Architect and Technical Lead – Portable Integrations for Agentic Research Computing

Posting Description

Senior Architect and Technical Lead, Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Council, to serve as the technical lead and senior architect for an innovative, agentic AI for research, on-premise and cloud unification activity; lead an initiative that aims to provide a unified, general-use environment to deliver a cost-effective and researcher-centric computing experience; draw together existing container-centric cyberinfrastructure tooling to create a seamless user experience across both on-premise and commercial cloud environments; and collaborate and guide a team of staff to develop core portability tools, identify key technical opportunities, and drive engagement success.

Job Requirements

Required

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with a minimum of ten years of relevant experience in technical fields and/or computational research, including at least four years of experience directly leading or supervising a team.
• Experience in research institutes or equivalent and in-depth knowledge of scientific software, and tuning algorithms in high-performance computing.
• An understanding of large-scale advanced research computing environments.
• Enterprise software engineering experience with expertise in software management, code and version controls and cloud-native environments.
• Familiarity with high-performance computing trends and technologies.
• Knowledge of HPC parallel and highly performant clustered or distributed file system architectures and their effective use and deployment for storage and management of research data life cycles.
• Demonstrated skills in leading a high performing team with a customer-services oriented mindset approach.
• Experience applying AI and/or Bayesian methods within a research context.
• Proven track record of successfully working with and leading mixed teams (contractors, employees, academics) to deliver new technical integrations.

Preferred

• Direct experience with open-source schedulers and provisioners: Slurm, Flux, Armada, Slinky, Soperator, or OpenTofu.
• Experience with Linux container technologies such as LXC, Apptainer and systemd-nspawn.
• Advanced degree in a relevant technical field.

Term Duration

2-year position.

Security Compliance

The Senior Architect and Technical Lead must comply with all relevant MGHPCC security policies.

4/15/2026