Senior Computational Engineer: AI/ML & HPC for Research

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital; Lauderdale Courts (TN); On-site; USD 86,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital seeks a Senior Computational Engineer to design, implement, and support advanced computing solutions for research in support of the St. Jude mission.

This role is a key technical contributor within High Performance Research Computing (HPRC), collaborating with researchers to build scalable HPC, cloud, and AI/ML workflows for data acquisition and processing. The ideal candidate will bring strong software engineering and computational science expertise, with

Qualifications

• Master's degree in computer science, data science, information science, mathematics or a related field.
• PhD in computer science, data science, information science, mathematics or a related field preferred.
• 4+ years of experience developing, optimizing, or maintaining scientific or computational applications.
• Experience designing computational pipelines, workflows, or software for high-performance computing systems, including AI/ML workloads.
• Strong scripting languages (C/C++, Python, R, MATLAB) and parallel programming (OpenMP, MPI, Pthreads).

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with investigators to understand research needs for sustainable development, implementation, and operation of HPCF systems.
• Develop, deploy, optimize, and maintain scientific applications, computational, and visualization tools, data processing pipelines, and programming libraries on HPCF systems.
• Support investigators and research staff for porting, parallelizing, testing, debugging, and enhancing application codes and scripts to run on HPCF systems.
• Develop and provide documentation and training materials on applications, tools, and pipelines running on HPCF systems.
• Conduct testing and evaluation of new computing technologies including data processing and visualization systems/platforms.
• Work with the HPCF staff to develop HPCF utilization metrics, and capture, analyze and report utilization of HPCF systems.
• Assist in the development and implementation of plans to increase utilization of the HPCF systems and collaborations among users.
• Perform other duties as assigned to meet the goals and objectives of the department and institution.
• Maintains regular and predictable attendance.

Skills

C/C++

Python

R

MATLAB

Education

Master's degree in computer science, data science, information science, mathematics or a related field

PhD in computer science, data science, information science, mathematics or a related field preferred

Tools

MPI

OpenMP

Pthreads

Job description

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital seeks a Senior Computational Engineer to design, implement, and support advanced computing solutions for research in support of the St. Jude mission.

This role is a key technical contributor within High Performance Research Computing (HPRC), collaborating with researchers to build scalable HPC, cloud, and AI/ML workflows for data acquisition and processing. The ideal candidate will bring strong software engineering and computational science expertise, with