Tier 2 CRC & Mitchell-Funded Tenure-Track​/Tenured Faculty in Supercomputing & HPC

in Supercomputing/ High-Performance Computing
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Stephen J.R. Smith Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science
Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada
September 2026
Queen's University is situated on traditional Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee Territory.

The Stephen J. R. Smith Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Queen’s University invites applications for two tenure-track/tenured positions at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor with specialization in supercomputing, high-performance computing, and extreme-scale systems in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. We are seeking scholars with demonstrated leadership in computing systems for modelling and simulation, digital twins, and AI infrastructure, with a preferred starting date of September 1, 2027.

This posting is for new positions within the University. The available positions are:
Tenure-Track or Tenured Tier 2 Canada Research Chair. Canada Research Chairs were established as part of a national strategy to foster research excellence (). The successful candidate must submit an external application to the Tri-agency Institutional Program Secretariat that meets the requirements for the successful nomination of Tier 2 Chair as defined by the Canada Research Chairs Program:

• be an excellent emerging world‑class researcher who has demonstrated particular research creativity;

• have demonstrated the potential to achieve international recognition in their field in the next five to ten years;

• have the potential to attract, develop and retain excellent trainees, students and future researchers; and

• be proposing an original, innovative research program of high quality.
Decreased teaching and administrative responsibilities will be associated with this position to enable the candidate to develop a world‑class research program.
Tenure-Track or Tenured Faculty Position (made possible by a transformative $30M investment by Bruce Mitchell Sc’68, DSc'20). The successful candidate will receive direct research support for the first 5 years of their tenure from the Bruce Mitchell Research Program, including resources to support the recruitment of multiple postdoctoral researchers/students. Decreased teaching and administrative responsibilities will be associated with this position to enable the candidate to develop a world‑class research program.

Qualifications (both positions) The ideal candidate will have:

• a PhD or equivalent degree completed at the start date of the appointment.
  
  Note:
  
  the requirement for a PhD is that of the University and not the CRC program.
• a background in supercomputing systems and a solid understanding of the challenges of building and operating and/or using large supercomputers along with an understanding of most of the common software used on these systems, such as:
  • batch systems (e.g. SLURM)
  • communication libraries (e.g. MPI, NCCL/RCCL)
  • shared memory node parallel programming models (e.g. OpenMP, CUDA/HIP, Kokkos, etc.)
  • the composition of communication libraries and node parallel programming (e.g. MPI+X).
  • I/O communication libraries (e.g. SCR, Adios, HDF5 and concepts e.g., POSIX).
• deep expertise in one or more supercomputing/HPC research areas. Examples of possible expertise (not an exhaustive list) include:
  • Supercomputing compute system design and optimization
  • File systems, software and/or hardware
  • Application performance and optimization
  • Middleware and/or software in one or more of the above areas
  • Networking
  • Interaction of supercomputers with emerging compute paradigms including, but not limited to edge systems and quantum computers
• enthusiasm about teaching supercomputing/HPC to diverse groups.

The main criteria for selection…