Senior Leader, High-Performance Research Computing

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital; Lauderdale Courts (TN); On-site; USD 114,000 - 216,000; Full time

Job summary

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is seeking a Principal Computational Engineer to provide strategic vision for advanced computing environments used by researchers.

This role is a senior technical leader in High Performance Research Computing (HPRC) partnering with researchers, data scientists, software engineers, and stakeholders to define institutional research computing strategy. The candidate will design, evaluate, and implement scalable scientific computing solutions across HPC, cloud,

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive experience developing, optimizing, or maintaining scientific or computational applications.
• Proven success collaborating across disciplines and leading projects.

Responsibilities

• Provide long-term, sustainable, and scalable technical vision and strategy for ongoing IS efforts to support basic science and translational research.
• Oversee definition and execution of IS technology strategy in line with research needs.
• Provide inputs for planning, analysis, and implementation of technology solutions to support basic science research.
• Lead feasibility studies, time and cost estimates, and development and implementation of new or revised computational applications and systems.
• Oversee security and performance monitoring of computational software applications.
• Provide project management guidance to teams for delivery within timelines and budget.

Skills

OpenMP

MPI

Pthreads

UNIX/Linux scripting

HPC systems

Education

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

PhD preferred

Tools

Slurm

Kubernetes

Job description

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is seeking a Principal Computational Engineer to provide strategic vision for advanced computing environments used by researchers.

This role is a senior technical leader in High Performance Research Computing (HPRC) partnering with researchers, data scientists, software engineers, and stakeholders to define institutional research computing strategy. The candidate will design, evaluate, and implement scalable scientific computing solutions across HPC, cloud,