HPC Storage Performance Engineer

HPC Storage Performance Engineer

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

• Successfully complete long and short‑term benchmark projects involving some of the largest HPC systems in the world that utilize the latest HPC technologies.
• Understand HPC architectural components and features, as well as performance estimation methodologies used to provide required information and performance assessments for storage benchmarks on future HPE and competitive systems.
• Provide technical analysis of I/O in standard HPC storage and application benchmarks.
• Identify solutions, define action plans, and help coordinate and deliver optimal benchmark enhancements and solutions in partnership with account teams.
• Develop and maintain current knowledge of competitors’ and HPE’s HPC products and relevant HPC performance optimization techniques to ensure HPE’s ability to provide high‑quality benchmark performance results.

• 10+ years of related working experience.
• Deep understanding of the HPC storage environment, including Lustre architecture, tuning, and metrics gained through experience in HPC and AI environments.
• Experience with storage benchmarks, profiling tools and/or scientific/engineering software for HPC systems.
• Familiarity with analyzing the role of storage in I/O synthetic benchmarks and end‑user application performance.

• Experience in one or more of the following storage solutions: DAOS, GPFS, WekaIO, VAST, BeeGFS.
• Knowledge of HPC system components interaction with HPC benchmarks in addition to storage, including processor, accelerator, memory, and software technologies.
• Understanding of parallel programming techniques and algorithms.
• Ability to triage complex issues, provide test cases and interact with R&D groups as part of a process to report and fix bugs.
• Expertise with software utilized by the HPC community that includes compilers (C++, C, Fortran), OpenMP, MPI, MPI‑IO, Python and other Linux‑based scripting languages.
• Expertise in GPU programming (CUDA and HIP).
• BS (Masters Preferred) degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematical discipline.

• Health & Wellbeing: comprehensive suite of benefits that supports physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.
• Personal & Professional Development: programs to help you reach any career goals, whether becoming a knowledge expert or applying skills to another division.
• Unconditional Inclusion: inclusive work environment celebrating individual uniqueness; flexibility to manage work and personal needs.
• Annual base salary: USD 152, (Minnesota & Texas). Variable incentives may also be offered.

HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/ Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, or any other protected category, and all decisions we make are based on qualifications, merit, and business need. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities and complies with all applicable laws related to employer use of arrest and conviction records, including laws requiring consideration of applicants with criminal histories.