Associate Director - HPC Infrastructure Architect
Core
Design and maintain the target architecture for high-performance computing (HPC) environments supporting scientific workloads like molecular modelling, genomics, and AI-adjacent tasks across on-premises and cloud infrastructures.
Role type
Senior IC HPC Infrastructure Architect
Builds
HPC clusters, storage systems, interconnect fabrics, and scheduling platforms for scientific research
Domain
Life Sciences / High-Performance Computing
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
HPC platform architecture, capacity planning, Linux cluster administration, workload schedulers (Slurm/LSF), CPU/GPU infrastructure design, high-performance storage, InfiniBand/Ethernet networking, hybrid cloud HPC
Preferred skills
Scientific community engagement, data-locality planning, infrastructure transformation, long-horizon planning
Technologies
Slurm, LSF, InfiniBand, Ethernet, Linux, GPU clusters
Responsibilities
Own the HPC reference architecture including cluster topologies and software stacks; define scientific workload placement models; produce capacity plans for compute, storage, and power/cooling; establish data-locality and movement principles; translate scientific requirements into procurement inputs; maintain architecture decision records; define interfaces with AI infrastructure; ensure designs meet security and regulatory expectations; coach engineers and act as a role model.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
