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.

Systems Analyst II - 1164

Location: Ames, IA
Hiring Institution: Iowa State University
Apply By: October 15, 2018
Posted date: September 24, 2018


The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) Information Technology team at Iowa State University is accepting applications for a Systems Analyst II. This position will be part of the LAS Research IT team, and will primarily provide systems analysis in the areas of data management, relational databases, and web applications. This position will also assist with other research computing support for the faculty and staff of multiple departments and programs in the college.

Senior Scientist, Research Computing (Life Sciences)

Location: New Jersey
Hiring Institution: Rutgers University
Apply By: October 18, 2018
Posted date: September 17, 2018


The Rutgers Office of Advanced Research Computing (OARC) is seeking a highly-skilled and experienced Senior Scientist (Life Sciences) to support the Rutgers University research community in their high performance computing-related research. Reporting to the Director of Data Science, under the Associate Vice President for Advanced Research Computing, the Senior Scientist engages in local outreach on the Rutgers campuses (New Brunswick, Newark and Camden) to identify potential new users of Advanced Computing resources (including HPC, HTC, Open Science Grid, XSEDE, and CloudLab). The incumbent works closely with faculty, post-doctoral associates, students, and research staff to understand their research to allow for the customization of training and support. The position operates as a member of the OARC team to provide application and user support to the Rutgers community on the New Brunswick, Newark and Camden campuses.

HPC system administrator

Location: Eugene, Oregon
Hiring Institution: University of Oregon
Apply By: October 18, 2018
Posted date: September 17, 2018


The position is located in Eugene, Oregon, a diverse and eclectic city located in the southern end of the Willamette Valley between two buttes and the scenic Willamette River. Eugene integrates the surrounding natural environment through extensive parks and path systems, so no matter where you are in the city, you are surrounded by the dynamic beauty of the great Northwest. It is a city that values arts and outdoors.

Senior Science Writer

Location: La Jolla, CA
Hiring Institution: University of California, San Diego
Apply By: October 19, 2018
Posted date: September 19, 2018


Science/technical writer for two distinct computer science and technology units at UC San Diego writes and edits a variety of comprehensive press releases and feature articles for SDSC and the CSE Department. Convey in a clear and engaging manner the scientific significance and societal benefits of a wide range of SDSC-related research projects as well as promoting the academic and scientific mission of the Computer Science & Engineering Department. Able to quickly distill often-complex research into text that can be understood by both a non-technical and technical audience. Establishes positive relations with the science reporters and other media to place press releases and feature articles.

Research Software Engineer

Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Hiring Institution: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Apply By: October 20, 2018
Posted date: September 19, 2018


We invite applications for the position of Research Software Engineer within the Computer Science and Mathematics Division. This position is part of ORNL’s Scientific Software Initiative, which provides scientific software development expertise to the Laboratory, by providing software engineering and development services across the Laboratory in a broad range of areas. The Initiative supports the mission of the Laboratory by creating a community for software professionals at the Laboratory to connect people, projects, and interested parties; by providing software engineering expertise for development, evaluation, quality assurance or other needs; by providing training and continuing education opportunities; by providing fair performance evaluation criteria; by recruiting new software engineering talent; and by mentoring students and early career scientists and engineers. The Initiative currently contributes to scientific computing projects in advanced materials, advanced manufacturing and 3D printing, astrophysics, batteries, neutron science, nuclear energy, quantum computing and pure computer science projects. Initiative members are active in the open source community, including the Eclipse Foundation, and most Initiative projects are available on GitHub.com

Computational Scientist

Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Hiring Institution: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Apply By: October 20, 2018
Posted date: September 19, 2018


We invite applications for the position of Computational Scientist within the Computer Science and Mathematics Division. This position is part of ORNL’s Scientific Software Initiative, which provides scientific software development expertise to the Laboratory, by providing software engineering and development services across the Laboratory in a broad range of areas and topics. The Initiative supports the mission of the Laboratory by creating a community for software professionals at the Laboratory to connect people, projects, and interested parties; by providing software engineering expertise for development, evaluation, quality assurance or other needs; by providing training and continuing education opportunities; by providing fair performance evaluation criteria; by recruiting new software engineering talent; and by mentoring students and early career scientists and engineers.

Performance Engineer

Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Hiring Institution: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Apply By: October 31, 2018
Posted date: September 19, 2018


We are seeking to build a team of Performance Engineers who will serve as liaisons between the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) and the users of the NCCS leadership computing resources, particularly Exascale Computing Project application development teams and will collaborate with the ECP application teams as they ready their software applications for the OLCF Exascale computer Frontier. These positions reside in the Scientific Computing Group in the National Center for Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

Computational Scientist in Earth System Modeling

Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Hiring Institution: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Apply By: October 31, 2018
Posted date: September 19, 2018


The Computational Science and Engineering Division in the Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate and the Climate Change Science Institute (http://climatechangescience.ornl.gov/) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) seek to hire a Computational Scientist in Earth System Modeling.

Research Computing Technologist 3

Location: Cleveland, OH
Hiring Institution: Case Western Reserve University
Apply By: November 01, 2018
Posted date: October 01, 2018


Working under general direction, the Research Computing Technologist 3 is responsible for extending research computing services to the university’s research community through active development of collaborative relationships with university researchers and scholars, UTech staff, and external collaborators, and by architecting solutions within the research community that leverage the university investment in its cyberinfrastructure. This includes identifying appropriate computational platforms (locally and externally) for research projects; tuning, debugging, optimizing, and enhancing existing algorithms on mid-scale and large-scale HPC, cloud computing, and national tera-/peta-scale facilities and other platforms; and creating new computational platforms and algorithms when none exist.

2019 Luis W. Alvarez Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computing Sciences

Location: Berkeley, California
Hiring Institution: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Apply By: November 02, 2018
Posted date: September 05, 2018


Apply now for the Luis W. Alvarez Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computing Sciences, sponsored by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Computing Sciences Area. Researchers in computer science, applied mathematics or any computational science discipline who have received their Ph.D. within the last three years are encouraged to apply. The successful applicant will work primarily with a research group within the Computing Sciences Area and receive a competitive salary, professional travel allowance, relocation assistance, excellent benefits, and an opportunity to work in the dynamic San Francisco Bay Area.

Senior Data Analyst

Location: Urbana, Illinois
Hiring Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Apply By: November 06, 2018
Posted date: September 05, 2018


NCSA is currently seeking a Senior Data Analyst to work in high-performance data informatics, data analytics and big data for industry partners and scientific communities. The successful candidate will lead a team of Data Scientist and Data Analysts to work on a wide variety of applications using state of the art data analytic tools with a focus on distributed computing in HPC environments. The Senior Data Analyst will be responsible for leading a team in the design, development, maintenance, and support of large-scale data analytics tools which turn data into information, information into insight, and insight into business decisions for NCSA Industry partners.

Senior Data Analyst

Location: Urbana, Illinois
Hiring Institution: University of Illinois @Urbana-Champaign National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Apply By: November 06, 2018
Posted date: September 19, 2018


NCSA is currently seeking a Senior Data Analyst to work in high-performance data informatics, data analytics and big data for industry partners and scientific communities. The successful candidate will lead a team of Data Scientist and Data Analysts to work on a wide variety of applications using state of the art data analytic tools with a focus on distributed computing in HPC environments. The Senior Data Analyst will be responsible for leading a team in the design, development, maintenance, and support of large-scale data analytics tools which turn data into information, information into insight, and insight into business decisions for NCSA Industry partners.

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.

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.