HPC Systems Engineer

Location: San Francisco, CA, United States

The CoreHPC team at UCSF is seeking an HPC Systems Engineer to play a key role in the development, maintenance, and day-to-day operations of the Institute’s HPC clusters. 

The HPC Systems Engineer will: 

• Apply advanced systems infrastructure concepts and skills to the operations and improvement of large-scale and highly complex research Cyber Infrastructure (CI) with unique computing, networking, and storage systems designed to address cutting-edge research problems
• Apply their engineering and design skills to develop new CI solutions, to develop and enhance monitoring to maintain the integrity of CI systems. 
• Select methods, techniques and evaluation criteria to develop new CI solutions to address complex research problems.
• Be an active member of the support and maintenance efforts for the CoreHPC cluster, resolving user issues, fixing technical problems, resolving outages, patching, and maintaining systems' uptime and availability. 
• Provides consultation, support, and guidance to researchers on how to address computational problems using standard tools, packages, and approaches. 
• Develop enhancements of monitoring to maintain the integrity of CI systems.
• Participate in multiple technical projects simultaneously. 
• Applies working knowledge of security control frameworks to maintain the integrity of the CI systems and the research being performed on them. 
• Gives presentations to the associated team and other technical units. 

• Evaluates new technologies, including performing moderate to complex cost/benefit analyses.

   

This position may lead to cross-functional technical working groups and projects in support of onboarding research customers, or making systems improvements. 

Department Overview 

Academic Research Systems (ARS) serves the needs of the UCSF research community by providing an integrated repository of HIPAA-compliant clinical and life sciences data and a centralized, secure, professionally managed infrastructure for the storage and management of research data. ARS empowers medical scientific investigations by offering secure computing environments, data capture, management and analysis tools, and support services which meet researchers’ needs. 

The Core HPC team of the Academic Research Service (ARS) focuses on large-scale, high-performance computational and storage services for UCSF researchers so they can address complex computational, AI, and data science problems.

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