HPC Applications & Performance Engineer

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise
Houston, TX, United States
14 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
7 years minimum
Compensation
$105,500.0 - $243,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Nvidia CUDA Microprocessors Multiprocessing OpenMP Software Product Management Supercomputing Systems Architecture Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) High Performance Computing Parallel Computation Information Technology

Job description

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., * 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

Requirements

  • 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

Preferred qualifications:

  • 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 alternate system architectures using performance measurement tools and techniques is preferred

Benefits & conditions

“The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.

  • United States of America: Annual Salary USD 105,500 - 243,000 in Minnesota & Texas The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered.”

About the company

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.

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