Software Developer - HPC

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Job Description Summary:

Delivers High Performance Computing (HPC) application and infrastructure solutions that support complex, compute intensive workloads, parallel filesystems, low latency networks, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML).

About Chevron IT

• The Information Technology function empowers all of Chevron to harness the benefits of information and digital technologies to drive competitive advantage.

• Our thirteen IT digital platforms maximize value creation by empowering teams to accelerate innovation, capitalize on scale, drive efficiency and reduce duplication, and speed access to quality data to unlock opportunities across business units and functions. Organized around business capabilities and digital products, the digital platforms span Chevron’s global integrated oil and gas value chain.

• Our Business Units partner with the enterprise digital platforms to drive effective engagement between IT and all of Chevron with a clear focus on efficiently delivering better, faster results.

• Our IT Engineering personnel chapters offer a flexible staffing and assignment model that allows us to bring the right skills when and where they are needed -- and ensure we are focusing on efforts that drive the highest business priorities.

• The Global Capability Center (GCC) IT department contains platform teams who are members of the four Petro technical digital platforms and IT Foundation Platform including Surface, Subsurface, Wells (Drilling), and Health, Safety, Environment (HSE), and IT Foundation Digital (ITFP). These teams operate in a matrix environment with priorities determined by global Product Owners and Product Managers.

About This Position:

The Global Capability Center (GCC) Software Engineer - HPC is a key technical engineer accountable for delivery and support of products and services to Chevron workforce. The product team is part of the HPC Product line within the IT Foundation Digital Platform. This Product line is responsible for digital delivery and support of HPC products and services to the Chevron Enterprise.

Key responsibilities:

The Role: As a Software Engineer - HPC you will be responsible for providing application and infrastructure solutions that support complex, compute intensive workloads, parallel filesystems, low latency networks, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML).

The successful candidate will partner with peers in the HPC Product Line, the IT R&D portfolio in the Innovation & Commercialization group as well as individual research & development projects in functions that utilize HPC capabilities (geophysics, reservoir engineering, downstream technology & services, and others).

This position is accountable for software development to deliver HPC solutions that implement novel, proprietary algorithms and workflows as well as the analysis and performance engineering of existing workflows and applications. The successful candidate is expected to define and lead software development projects, take ownership of HPC software products and projects and promote and consult on the use of best practices and tools for HPC software development.

Responsibilities

• Analysis, development and integration of codes that implement scientific/technical algorithms using appropriate HPC programming techniques, tools and languages including CPU/GPU, MPI, OpenMP, CUDA, and similar on HPC environment such as cluster compute systems.

• Maintain a portfolio of relevant HPC software tools and lead developers in various domain sciences in the appropriate use of these tools to build and run HPC applications.

• Advise users, other developers and HPC infrastructure SMEs on the correct and efficient execution of HPC codes at large scale and high performance.

• Collaboration with other groups, functions and platforms across Chevron on the adoption of common technologies and concepts (cloud computing, general software engineering, HPC infrastructure).

• Identification of unmet needs for capabilities in existing or emerging application areas of HPC.

• Performance engineering, cloud optimizations, and modernization of existing code bases.

• Porting of existing CPU-based algorithms for GPUs.

Required Qualifications:

• At least 5 years' experience in developing codes for compute accelerators or other emerging hardware technologies. * 5 - 10 years of experience

• Experience with HPC system infrastructure (e.g. Storage, Networking, infrastructure software)

• Developer-level experience with Linux OS, particularly in HPC environments

• Familiarity with Data Science and Machine Learning concepts and technologies (CNNs, pyTorch, Tensorflow)

• Experience with cloud computing environments (esp. Microsoft Azure)

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or comparable field

Chevron ENGINE supports global operations, supporting business requirements across the world. Accordingly, the work hours for employees will be aligned to support business requirements. The standard work week will be Monday to Friday. Working hours are 8:00am to 5:00pm or 1:30pm to 10:30pm.

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