Advanced Computing Engineer

Select how often (in days) to receive an alert:

We are hiring an Advanced Computing Engineer to design, operate and maintain HPC clusters and AI systems supporting services where science happens at ORNL! This position resides in the Emerging Technologies & AI and Computing team in the Research Computing group in the Information Technology Services Directorate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

The Emerging Technology Computational Group facilitates ORNL goals through HPC and AI systems engineering, integration, and support for the research community  providing design, deployment, optimization, monitoring, and tooling support across multiple clustered infrastructures, we facilitate Lab‑wide R&D projects. Our HPC clusters range in scope from just a handful of nodes to over fifty‑thousand cores.

We partner with ORNL research organizations to enable research excellence and delivery. We work with other clustered computing and HPC groups to help research programs identify the best solutions for their needs. When we build our customer's environments, our team collaborates to design, implement, and maintain the systems from inception to retirement.

• Advocate and promote HPC and AI clustered computing services to researchers who process large data sets and/or develop code as a part of their project.
• Design and define the end‑to‑end architecture for AI/ML solutions, ensuring scalability, performance, and alignment with ORNL’s strategic goals and architectural principles and guidelines.
• Define and implement AI/ML solutions that align with a robust master data management strategy to ensure data integrity, security, and accessibility.
• Ensure the availability, performance, scalability, and security of production systems.
• Leverage automation and monitoring solutions that minimize our day‑to‑day maintenance and scout opportunities to optimize system management practices or system performance.
• Collaborate with technical POCs for the programs that we support to install and help tune the performance of various scientific toolsets.
• Deliver ORNL’s mission by aligning behaviors, priorities, and interactions with our core values of Impact, Integrity, Teamwork, Safety, and Service. Promote equal opportunity by fostering a respectful workplace – in how we treat one another, work together, and measure success.

• A BS degree in computer science, computer engineering, information technology, information systems, science, engineering, business, or a related discipline and a minimum of 8 years of aligned professional experience is required for consideration. An overall combination of equivalent education and experience may be considered.
• Four (4) or more years with managing UNIX/Linux Systems.
• Two (2) or years of proven experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Git, Ansible, or Puppet.
• Moderate proficiency in at least one scripting language such as Bash, Python, or others.
• Experience performing advanced troubleshooting and system administration with Linux Servers.

• Active DOE Q, active DOD Top Secret, or active DOD TS/SCI clearance is heavily preferred for consideration.
• A strong desire to innovate and identify new technologies and opportunities and be able to communicate the potential benefits of those choices to others within the team and our research partners.
• A collaborative and upbeat approach to thrive on the opportunity to build trust and credibility and ultimately become a trusted advisor to our research teams.
• Solid understanding of multiple operating systems and cluster technologies.
• Experience with Rocky/Centos/RHEL, Ubuntu, VMware.
• Understanding of HPC platforms to support users with SLURM job submissions and…