Senior HPC Systems Engineer - AI & Research Clusters

Johns Hopkins University; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 86,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Johns Hopkins University IT@JH Research Computing seeks a Sr. HPC Systems Engineer to design, build, and maintain advanced high‑performance computing environments.

The role focuses on reliable operation, configuration, and optimization of HPC and AI systems, including multi‑node CPU/GPU clusters, InfiniBand networks, and large‑scale storage. You will work with faculty, researchers, and students on ticketed support and project deployments, while implementing secure, reproducible platforms and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Six years of related experience.
• Additional education may substitute for required experience beyond a high school diploma/graduation equivalent, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Responsibilities

• Support and administer production systems used by researchers.
• Provide technical leadership/project management for system configuration, implementation, management, and user support for both new and existing systems.
• Research and recommend new functionality for HPC management and administration tools by exploring system-wide impacts.
• Expertise with architecting, operating, and debugging large scale HPC network and storage infrastructure, including MPI, NCCL, RDMA, Infiniband, and parallel file systems
• Work with scientific support specialists and assigns tasks and provides oversight to HPC engineering team for researchers using diverse applications
• Analyze results of server monitoring and implement changes to improve performance, processing, and utilization
• Propose, maintain, and enforce policies, practices and security procedures
• Provide break/fix support, setup/installation support, escalation support, and solutions support
• Collaborate with stakeholders on all aspects of projects
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Six years related experience

HPC systems administration

Linux administration

Automation scripting

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Slurm

Ansible

Puppet

Salt

GPFS

Lustre

BeeGFS

WekaFS

Infiniband

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Johns Hopkins University IT@JH Research Computing seeks a Sr. HPC Systems Engineer to design, build, and maintain advanced high‑performance computing environments.

The role focuses on reliable operation, configuration, and optimization of HPC and AI systems, including multi‑node CPU/GPU clusters, InfiniBand networks, and large‑scale storage. You will work with faculty, researchers, and students on ticketed support and project deployments, while implementing secure, reproducible platforms and