Senior HPC Platform Engineer: Global Compute

Minority Professional Network, Inc.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Minority Professional Network, Inc. is seeking a Senior HPC Platform Engineer to lead the engineering and operations of scalable HPC platforms. You will enable HPC infrastructure and experiences, collaborating with researchers to optimize performance and streamline workflows.

The role emphasizes automation, orchestration, and monitoring across on-prem and cloud environments, with opportunities to work on world‑class cardiometabolic research platforms and modern HPC tooling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, or related technical field.
• 5+ years’ experience HPC Platform Engineer.
• Demonstrated experience leading a global large-scale infrastructure project.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering and operations of design, build, and maintain scalable HPC platforms.
• Enable HPC infrastructure and experiences.
• Collaborate with researchers to optimize performance and workflows.
• Leverage tooling and automation for orchestration, resource scheduling, data access, and reproducibility.
• Evolve and operate public cloud and on-prem environments for HPC workloads.
• Define and monitor infrastructure metrics and resource utilization.

Skills

HPC platforms

GPU accelerators

HPC schedulers

Kubernetes

Containers (Docker, Apptainer)

Linux

DevOps tools

Python

Bash

Automation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Github

Chef

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

Minority Professional Network, Inc. is seeking a Senior HPC Platform Engineer to lead the engineering and operations of scalable HPC platforms. You will enable HPC infrastructure and experiences, collaborating with researchers to optimize performance and streamline workflows.

The role emphasizes automation, orchestration, and monitoring across on-prem and cloud environments, with opportunities to work on world‑class cardiometabolic research platforms and modern HPC tooling.