HPC Scientist

Overview

We are seeking an HPC Scientist in our Broomfield, CO location.

Quantinuum is a leader in the full stack of Quantum Computing from hardware design, build and operation, to Quantum Operating System development and deployment, to end user software development. Several of these stages require traditional HPC resources, separated or integrated with the Quantum Computers themselves. With the growth of the industry and the company, its HPC needs are growing too and hence we are hiring an HPC Scientist.

This is a tremendous opportunity to leverage your traditional HPC expertise to join a sector in exponential growth at an early stage and become one of the first experts in the field.

• Contributes to planning, installing, configuring, maintaining and supporting one or more Linux HPC clusters, including web-based HPC services such as Open OnDemand and/or Jupyter Hub
• Assists scientific computing users with developing, compiling, profiling, debugging and running their workloads in an effective and efficient way, using the appropriate tools such as GNU compilers, LLVM (including clang and flang), Intel compiler, OpenMP, MPI, Dask, etc
• Contributes to maintaining accurate and up to date end-users-facing documentation about the HPC systems, supporting the usage of the HPC systems and infrastructure. Works with users to explain the documentation and improves it as needed
• Monitors system health, integrity, and resource utilization. Utilizes such metrics to inform management about future purchase decision
• Works collaboratively with other stakeholders, including security, networking, user support, and researchers to guarantee that needs are met, policies are implemented, and everything is working in the best possible way

• Master’s degree minimum
• 3+ years of experience (advanced degree inclusive) in an HPC support or administrator role
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with Linux/Unix administration and HPC systems deployment and management, including storage, computing, and Infini Band networks
• 2+ years of experience writing scripts (e.g., Bash, Python) and utilizing automation/configuration tools to maintain consistent, reproducible, and well-documented HPC system states
• 1+ year of experience collaborating with external vendor support engineers to troubleshoot technical issues and collect/analyze logs from OS, firmware, PSU, or related components
• Due to Contractual requirements, must be a U.S. Person. defined as, U.S. citizen permanent resident or green card holder, workers granted asylum or refugee status
• Due to national security requirements imposed by the U.S. Government, candidates for this position must not be a People’s Republic of China national or Russian national unless the candidate is also a U.S. citizen.

• PhD in mathematics, computer science, physics, electrical engineering, or a related field
• 2+ years post-PhD experience in a role of HPC support or administrator
• Experience working with support engineers from external vendors, to troubleshoot problems, including ability to collect and communicate highly technical logs from different sources (OS, firmware, PSU, etc)
• Willingness and ability to learn new technologies and relevant domain knowledge
• Demonstrated experience installing, configuring, and maintaining web-based services in an HPC environment such as Open On Demand  or Jupyter Hub
• Familiarity in the administration of the SLURM workload management system, including debugging unexpected behaviors and/or configuring it for less common use cases
• Familiarity with Lmod environmental modules and the Spack package management tool
• Ability to write and maintain scripts using a range of programming languages such as bash shell, Python, Perl, Lua, etc.
• Familiarity with monitoring systems, creating actionable alerting, metrics collection to gain insight into production systems
• Experience administrating an environment with multiple versions of Python, Dask, GNU compilers, LLVM (including clang and flang), Intel compiler, OpenMP, MPI, and other user-facing libraries
• Proficiency in one or more compiled languages such as C, C++, Fortran, or Rust
• A history of supporting code development…