Lead Computing Engineer
Listed on 2026-05-29
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IT/Tech
Systems Engineer, Cloud Computing
Lead High Performance Computing Engineer
Brown University seeks a Lead High Performance Computing Engineer to provide technical leadership to HPC engineering staff, coordinate the team, and guide architectural and operational decisions for the HPC environment. Design, deploy, and maintain the university's high-performance computing cluster. Configure and maintain the workload scheduler and architect quality‑of‑service policies. Administer Linux systems across infrastructure projects and deploy new GPUs for research and teaching.
Troubleshoot complex system and application issues involving compute, GPU, storage, and scheduling systems. Deploy and support AI workloads, including Tensor Flow, PyTorch, and Jax. Conduct vendor evaluations and proof‑of‑concept tests to adopt new HPC, GPU, and storage technologies. Provide advanced technical support to faculty and researchers.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.
- At least 3 years of experience in Linux systems administration.
- Experience in research computing environments.
- Experience with RHEL/CentOS Linux operating system management.
- Knowledge of system architectures, security, networking, storage systems, parallel computing, and batch/scheduling systems.
- Programming skills in C, C++, bash, Perl, or similar.
- Experience with source control systems such as Git.
- Experience with log correlation software such as Sumologic.
- Experience with large-scale research computing platforms such as Globus, HPC environments, SLURM, GPFS.
- Experience with machine learning frameworks such as Tensor Flow.
A hybrid onsite schedule is required.
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