High Performance Computing (HPC) Engineer
Core
Design, deploy, configure, and administer medium-scale HPC clusters and associated storage systems to support computationally intensive economic research.
Role type
Senior HPC Infrastructure Engineer
Builds
High-performance computing environments, research data warehousing, and advanced analytical tools for economic research.
Domain
Federal Reserve / Economic Research / High Performance Computing
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
Linux administration (Red Hat/CentOS), HPC cluster management, job scheduling (SLURM), parallel file systems (Ceph, GPFS), automation (Ansible, Salt), scripting (Python, Bash), troubleshooting multi-user environments
Preferred skills
GPU computing (CUDA), cloud computing platforms, GitLab CI/CD, machine learning workloads on HPC
Technologies
SLURM, Ceph, GPFS, Lustre, BeeGFS, Docker, Singularity, Ansible, Salt, Python, Bash, MPI, OpenMP
Responsibilities
Design and implement innovative HPC solutions; optimize scientific applications and computational workflows; create automation scripts; support GPU computing; partner with researchers to translate computational needs into technical solutions; develop documentation and training materials
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC