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Harvard Medical School · 21 hours ago

High Performance Computing Team Lead

Boston, MA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

5+ years exp

Harvard Medical School is dedicated to improving health and well-being through excellence in teaching, discovery, and service. The High Performance Computing Team Lead will lead the design and operation of HPC environments, ensuring scalable and secure research workflows while overseeing user access and software environments. This role involves collaborating across teams to maintain a robust foundation for computational activities and contributing to HPC infrastructure initiatives.

Education

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Hiring Manager

Derek King

Responsibilities

Oversee the design, provisioning, configuration, and decommissioning of HPC compute clusters, ensuring system performance and lifecycle sustainability

Engineer, administer and tune workload schedulers (e.g., Slurm) and cluster management to optimize job throughput, resource utilization, and system availability

Design, maintain and support secure, regulated compute environments (e.g. NIST 800-171), ensuring technical safeguards and documentation align with required frameworks necessary for enabling regulated biomedical research

Ensure integration and design of user accounts and identity management with institutional systems, supporting secure and streamlined access to HPC resources

Design and maintain customized and sustainable researcher software environments, including module systems and containerized applications within security standards

Lead team in the software development life cycle for operational tooling and infrastructure automation and deliver expert coding

Research, design, and implement technical solutions to meet infrastructure and research requirements

Identify opportunities to improve and simplify compute platform services and implement related enhancements

Contribute to the creation and maturing of operational and automation best practices, including Service Level Agreements

Act as a technical liaison to internal and external stakeholders and collaborators and mentor junior staff

Participate in off hours on-call schedule

Other duties as assigned

Qualification

Linux-based HPC systemsWorkload schedulersInfrastructure monitoringConfiguration management toolsContainerization toolsSecurity complianceTroubleshooting skillsCommunication skillsCollaboration skillsInterpersonal skillsTime management

Required

Minimum of seven years' post-secondary education or relevant work experience

Minimum of 5 years of experience managing Linux-based HPC systems in a research or academic environment

Strong experience with workload schedulers (Slurm preferred), cluster provisioning, and performance tuning

Experience with infrastructure monitoring, configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible), and containerization tools (e.g., Singularity/Apptainer, Docker)

Familiarity with security and compliance requirements in regulated research environments

Excellent troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills

Ability to work collaboratively in a team and adapt to evolving technologies and priorities

Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to build and cultivate strong relationships and work effectively with diverse groups

Demonstrated “can do” work ethic coupled with effective time management

Benefits

Generous paid time off including parental leave

Medical, dental, and vision health insurance coverage starting on day one

Retirement plans with university contributions

Wellbeing and mental health resources

Support for families and caregivers

Professional development opportunities including tuition assistance and reimbursement

Commuter benefits, discounts and campus perks

Company

Harvard Medical School

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