Senior Computational Engineer: AI/ML & HPC for Research

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

Job summary

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is seeking 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), working closely with researchers to design efficient processes, infrastructure, software, and workflows for data acquisition and processing.

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 HPC/AI systems, including workloads involving AI/ML training and inference is highly preferred.
• Experience optimizing software and computational workflows for performance, scalability, and efficient execution on HPC and AI/ML systems is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with investigators, research staff, stakeholders, users, subject matter experts, and solution architects 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

MPI/OpenMP

Data pipelines

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

Linux

SLURM

CUDA

Job description

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is seeking 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), working closely with researchers to design efficient processes, infrastructure, software, and workflows for data acquisition and processing.