HPC Applications & Performance Engineer

This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next.

We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

HPE is seeking an experienced HPC performance engineer who is excited to help drive the performance of systems used to solve the world’s biggest problems. As a member of the HPC and AI Solutions and Performance Engineering team, this engineer will benchmark, profile, and tune HPC and AI related applications along with industry-standard benchmarks across HPE’s HPC and AI product portfolio to identify, analyze, and resolve engineering and customer issues.

This engineer will have the opportunity to collaborate with leading scientists and engineers, contributing to groundbreaking innovation in HPC and AI. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong technical capability in HPC scientific applications, performance analysis, and HPC architecture, along with a commitment to advancing the performance of HPE supercomputers deployed at customer sites worldwide.

This role is based in Bloomington, MN or Spring, TX.

This position will support government accounts. Therefore, due to federal export-control regulations, the selected candidate must hold U.S. citizenship, U.S. lawful permanent resident/Green Card status or otherwise have a category of refugee/asylee status enabling them to perform the role without requiring a license under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) or Export Administration Regulations (EAR).

• Provide pre- and post-sales technical and benchmarking support to enable HPC or AI customer opportunities
• Collaborate with HPE product engineering, product management, and marketing to influence current and future product capabilities and direction
• Evaluate emerging technologies and assess their impact on product differentiation (performance and features) for key customer applications
• Develop and maintain current knowledge of HPE and competitor HPC/AI products and performance optimization techniques to ensure the team continues to deliver high-quality benchmark results
• Lead application-focused performance studies and projects, and author technical reports and papers that communicate findings and recommendations

• Bachelors, Master’s or PhD degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or equivalent
• 7+ years of demonstrated experience with high-end HPC systems and performance analysis/tuning of scalable HPC applications
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; mastery of English required

• Experience with large-scale HPC systems and software
• Experience with large-scale AI systems and software is preferred
• Detailed understanding of multiprocessor and GPU hardware architectures, capabilities, and parallel programming techniques (e.g., OpenMP, MPI, CUDA, HIP)
• Proficiency with key industry-standard HPC benchmarks (e.g., HPL, HPCG, OSU MPI, NCCL/RCCL) on CPUs and GPUs is preferred
• Experience with performance projection methodologies to model performance of…