Career Opportunities in HPC at a Glance

Whether you are seeking a change of career, a post-doctoral position or career advancement, this site has a variety of offerings from universities and organizations located across the country and around the world. Each listing is posted for thirty days from its original posting date so be sure to gather all of the necessary information when you first see a posting that interests you so as not to miss it upon your return to this site.

Temporary Lecturer in Data Science Program

Location: San Diego, CA
Hiring Institution: University of California, San Diego
Apply By: December 17, 2018
Posted date: May 29, 2018


The UC San Diego Data Science Undergraduate Program (joint endeavor of the Departments of Computer Science and Engineering, Mathematics and Cognitive Science) is seeking temporary lecturers to teach between one and three course per quarter during 2018-19 academic year. We seek applicants in all content areas related to data science including data analysis, programming, statistics, machine learning and visualization.

Cyberinfrastructure Engineer

Location: Columbia, MO
Hiring Institution: University of Missouri
Apply By: December 20, 2018
Posted date: November 20, 2018


The University of Missouri is searching for a Cyberinfrastructure Engineer to fill a new position that will work closely with researchers to help them evaluate their research computation needs and to recommend solutions that allow them to take full advantage of the resources available. Mizzou’s cyberinfrastructure (CI) engineers develop scientific workflows to advance research in all areas, including bioinformatics, machine learning, material science, and computational chemistry. As a cyberinfrastructure engineer, you will work on a broad range of projects across campus with opportunities to specialize in a number of domain areas.

Executive Director position for Professional Master’s in Molecular Sciences and Software Engineering

Location: Berkeley, CA
Hiring Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Apply By: December 20, 2018
Posted date: November 20, 2018


The Professional Master of Molecular Science and Software Engineering (MSSE) graduate program within the College of Chemistry and in collaboration with the College of Engineering, prepares post-baccalaureate students for career paths that lead to software positions and managerial and executive positions in software technology-enabled companies and organizations as well as entrepreneurial ventures. The Executive Director will report to the Assistant Dean of Finance and Administration in the College of Chemistry with a strong dotted line reporting to the Faculty Program Director of the MSSE Degree. Please submit your cover letter and resume as a single attachment when applying to thg@berkeley.edu

SENIOR SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMMER ANALYST,IS&T Scientific Computing

Location: Boston, MA
Hiring Institution: Boston University
Apply By: December 27, 2018
Posted date: November 26, 2018


Lead the technical aspects related to consulting, training, and scientific application package support for Research Computing Services on the Boston University Medical Campus (BUMC). Technical aspects include engagement of research projects, project guidance, personal instruction, tutorials, workshops, workflow/pipeline development, application porting, and code optimization of for research projects. Serve as the primary support contact for BUMC faculty, staff and graduate students on complex projects and issues that require in-depth knowledge of the multiple technical areas within the Research Computing Services Group as well as the core computational research tools used in biostatistics, bioinformatics, microbiology and biochemistry.

HPC Scientific Cloud Architect (Scientist 2/3/4)

Location: Los Alamos, NM
Hiring Institution: Los Alamos, NM
Apply By: January 03, 2019
Posted date: December 03, 2018


The High Performance Computing (HPC) Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory provides scientific computing resources consisting of some of the largest HPC systems in the world. The Futures team within the HPC Division is responsible for developing, deploying, and maintaining non-standard and advanced scientific computing resources. These resources include an ethernet-connect hybrid cloud/HPC platform and a special purpose HPC cluster used to develop advanced technologies such as high performance computing Linux containers. This position will be filled at the Scientist 2, 3, or 4 level as dictated by current Programmatic needs and the skills of the selected candidate. Job responsibilities will be assigned in accordance with the level at which the selected candidate is hired.

HPC Consultant (Computing Systems Professional 1/2/3)

Location: Los Alamos, NM
Hiring Institution: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Apply By: January 03, 2019
Posted date: December 03, 2018


Our High-Performance Computing Division provides production high performance computing systems services to the Laboratory. The High Performance Computing Environments group (HPC-ENV) takes responsibility for the broad range of HPC platforms, monitoring and data analytics, programming and runtime environments, software, application support and readiness, user support & services for a large and diverse customer base. We provide support and services to many production platforms at a world-class computing facility to ensure customers can accomplish their research and mission at extreme scale.

HPC Consultant/User Support (Scientist 2/3)

Location: Los Alamos, NM
Hiring Institution: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Apply By: January 03, 2019
Posted date: December 03, 2018


The focus for the HPC Consulting team is to support and enhance the productivity of the LANL HPC user community by providing quality technical support in a timely manner. We achieve this by providing customer focused, single point of contact for HPC systems, services, tools and technical support. The HPC Consulting Team provides support for all production HPC platforms in various networks, including help for programming languages, debugging, parallel computing, HPC operating systems, utilities, libraries, file systems and interconnects, scripting, archival storage, desktop backup (TSM), file transfer, HPC network, and Tri-Lab support. The Division’s goal is to create an effective HPC environment in which scientists can be as productive as possible. Additionally, we support selected research activities that we deem important to our mission.

HPC Data Storage Administrator/Computer Scientist (Scientist 2 / 3)

Location: Los Alamos, NM
Hiring Institution: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Apply By: January 03, 2019
Posted date: December 03, 2018


The High Performance Computing (HPC) Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory provides scientific computing resources consisting of some of the largest HPC systems in the world, including a large (19K+ node) Cray system called Trinity, as well as numerous large commodity cluster systems. Our HPC Data Storage Team provides vanguard production support, research, and development for existing and future systems that feed and unleash the power of our supercomputers. This position will be filled at either the Computer Scientist 2 or Computer Scientist 3 level, depending upon the skills of the selected candidate. Additional job responsibilities (outlined below) will be assigned if the candidate is hired at the higher level.

Archive Storage System Administrator (Scientist 2/3)

Location: Los Alamos, NM
Hiring Institution: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Apply By: January 04, 2019
Posted date: December 03, 2018


This role requires strong communication skills, as well as comprehensive troubleshooting and analytical skills. Team member duties include: designing, building, and maintaining world-class data movement and storage systems; evaluating and testing new technology and solutions; system administration of HPC storage infrastructure in support of compute clusters; diagnosing, solving, and implementing solutions for various system operational problems; tuning file systems to increase performance and reliability of services; process automation; interacting with vendors; and communicating and collaborating with other groups, teams, projects and sites. Specifically, the selected candidate will support Archival storage in both production and forward looking efforts. The role will likely include database administration in addition to general storage administration.

Programmer Analyst III

Location: Lubbock, TX
Hiring Institution: Texas Tech University
Apply By: April 02, 2019
Posted date: October 08, 2018


The Programmer Analyst III's role is to develop, test, analyze, and maintain software applications in support of business requirements. This position will also research, design, document, and modify software specifications throughout the production life cycle. Additionally, the Programmer Analyst III is also responsible for supervising and/or leading the development of new systems, directing changes to existing systems and controlling the interfaces between the systems, initiating complex feasibility studies and making recommendations of the action to be taken.