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HPC Architect

North Chicago, IL, us💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-08 → 2026-09-25

Core

Architect and evolve on-premises, cloud, and hybrid HPC platforms for scientific and R&D computing environments.

Role type

Senior HPC Architect (Infrastructure & Cloud)

Builds

Scalable, secure, and cost-effective HPC solutions for Life Sciences research workloads.

Domain

Life Sciences / Pharmaceutical / High Performance Computing

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

HPC compute and GPU architecture, Slurm workload management, Linux, networking (InfiniBand/RDMA), distributed storage (Lustre/Weka), containerization (Apptainer/Docker), automation/DevOps, security governance, capacity planning.

Preferred skills

Pharmaceutical industry experience.

Technologies

AWS, Slurm, Apptainer, Docker, Posit Workbench, NVIDIA GPUs, CUDA, MPI, InfiniBand, Lustre, Weka, Active Directory, Python, R.

Responsibilities

Design and implement HPC compute, networking, and storage infrastructure; optimize Slurm scheduling and GPU resource allocation; establish secure container and scientific software environments; automate provisioning and lifecycle management; lead incident reviews and capacity planning; mentor engineering teams.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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