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.

Information Technology Manager

Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Hiring Institution: Louisiana State University
Apply By: February 21, 2019
Posted date: February 14, 2019


The Manager of HPC Systems within Information Technology Services will be responsible for enabling both existing and emerging high performance computing solutions and related infrastructure, providing a high level of service in the deployment and maintenance of HPC supercomputer hardware and software to the research communities of LSU and its collaborators.

Outside Plant Coordinator

Location: Columbus, OH
Hiring Institution: Ohio Supercomputer Center
Apply By: February 24, 2019
Posted date: February 07, 2019


Outside Plant Coordinator collaborates with OARnet staff on all aspects of design and maintenance of the OARnet fiber plant consisting of over 5,000 route miles of outside plant infrastructure. Coordinate with fiber vendors and contractors for existing and new spans. Provide consultation to OARnet member schools, affiliates and partners. Manage fiber proposals, dark fiber IRU’s, dark fiber bids, and other contracts associated with the OARnet dark fiber plant. Provide scope definition, engineering design review, and approvals for the OARnet fiber network.

Lead Computational Specialist

Location: Evanston, Illinois
Hiring Institution: Northwestern
Apply By: February 28, 2019
Posted date: January 28, 2019


In this role, you will lead our high-performance computing support services by gathering requirements from faculty and graduate students, developing and driving strategy, and overseeing service improvements to meet the current and future needs of Northwestern’s research community. You will supervise a small team of exceptional computational specialists, providing guidance for performance and career development. Alongside team members, you will provide computational support for Northwestern researchers through consultations, workshops, and tickets.

HPC Systems Administrator

Location: Pullman, Washington
Hiring Institution: Washington State University
Apply By: February 28, 2019
Posted date: January 28, 2019


The High-Performance Computing (HPC) Systems Administrator will provide engineering and administration support for Linux-based HPC clusters used by the research community at Washington State University. Responsibilities include hardware selection and configuration, as well as the installation and maintenance of the HPC software infrastructure for networking, computing, and storage.

Computer Systems Engineer

Location: Bay Area, California
Hiring Institution: UC Berkeley
Apply By: February 28, 2019
Posted date: January 28, 2019


Berkeley Lab’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) has an opening for a Site Reliability Engineer. In this role, you will provide a variety of engineering support services in a 24x7 environment. You will work for the Operations Technology Group (OTG) and ensure that NERSC (a DOE computational facility) is accessible, reliable, secure and available to our scientific users.

High Performance Computing Security Developer

Location: Berkeley, California
Hiring Institution: Berkeley Lab
Apply By: February 28, 2019
Posted date: January 28, 2019


As an HPC Security Developer you will be involved in all aspects of computer and network security at the NERSC Center. You will use your computer and programming skills to enhance network and host intrusion prevention as we migrate from 100G to Terabit networks. You will create new methods to protect Exascale class systems in an open science environment and have opportunities to work with data analytics and researchers in a variety of scientific fields.

Archive Storage System Administrator

Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico
Hiring Institution: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Apply By: February 28, 2019
Posted date: January 28, 2019


The Data Storage team seeks highly motivated, productive, inquisitive, and multi-talented candidates who are equally comfortable working independently as well as part of a team.

HPC Scientific Cloud Architect

Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico
Hiring Institution: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Apply By: February 28, 2019
Posted date: January 28, 2019


You will be working closely with other Futures team members as well as team members in other groups in the HPC division and other divisions around the Laboratory. The use of cloud technologies to perform scientific work at the Laboratory is an emerging area of interest. You will be helping to develop this capability within the HPC division. You will also be working closely with scientists across the Laboratory to help them adopt cloud technologies where appropriate and also to develop new cloud technologies to meet new scientific workload requirements.

HPC Network Specialist/Researcher

Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico
Hiring Institution: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Apply By: February 28, 2019
Posted date: January 28, 2019


Participate in process improvement, including deep multi‐system problem isolation and resolution often in collaboration with administrators of other HPC subsystems. Work with team members and vendors to document, design, and implement new ideas and approaches for newer network topologies and improve those for existing ones. Present best practices, experience reports, and/or research results to managers and to peers locally or at conferences. Proactively create experiments and tooling to validate solutions and to detect and diagnose network and hardware health issues. Analyze published research papers in the area of networking and high-speed interconnects, summarize, and share implications and connections to ongoing work with team members.

Lead Computational Specialist

Location: Evanston, Illinois
Hiring Institution: Northwestern
Apply By: March 02, 2019
Posted date: January 31, 2019


Northwestern IT Research Computing Services is looking for a Lead Computational Specialist. In this role, you will lead our high-performance computing support services by gathering requirements from faculty and graduate students, developing and driving strategy, and overseeing service improvements to meet the current and future needs of Northwestern’s research community. You will supervise a small team of exceptional computational specialists, providing guidance for performance and career development. Alongside team members, you will provide computational support for Northwestern researchers through consultations, workshops, and tickets.

Director of Academic, Administrative, and Research services

Location: Albany, NY
Hiring Institution: University of Albany
Apply By: March 04, 2019
Posted date: February 11, 2019


The Director of Academic, Administrative, and Research services is responsible for delivery of the large subset of IT services that target three focus areas: teaching and learning, research, and administration and business. The Director, reporting to the CIO, leads approximately twenty staff in Information Technology Services (ITS). The successful candidate ensures that ITS builds relationships with customers in these focus areas, understands and anticipates their needs, and delivers effective and efficient services and solutions.

HPC System Administrator

Location: Idaho
Hiring Institution: Idaho National Laboratory
Apply By: March 11, 2019
Posted date: February 11, 2019


The incumbent will be expected to be a fast learner and demonstrate a strong ability to work with a team to troubleshoot complex system issues. Applicants with strong skill sets in Linux systems administration in a cluster environment with experience in high performance computing networking and storage, server hardware, identity management, scripting, configuration management, and other related technical skills will receive the highest consideration.

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.

Senior HPC System Administrator

Location: Chicago, IL
Hiring Institution: University of Chicago
Apply By: May 30, 2019
Posted date: January 07, 2019


The University of Chicago is seeking a highly qualified Senior HPC System Administrator to join the system and operation team that builds and manages RCC HPC systems and facility operations. The individual in this position will be involved in the procurement and management of HPC hardware and software.

Assistant Research Programmer/ Research Programmer /Senior Research Programmer

Location: Urbana, Illinois
Hiring Institution: University of Illinois
Apply By: June 30, 2019
Posted date: January 28, 2019


NCSA is currently seeking one or more Assistant Research Programmer/Research Programmer/Senior Research Programmer(s) to create scientific and research software development and engineering in support of projects and research, which can include elements of data analysis, data ingestion and integration from heterogeneous sources, cybersecurity, web front ends, back end services that scale, as well as databases.