Posting Details
Posting Number: S05840P
Position Title: HPC Software Engineer II
Functional Title: High Performance Computing Software Engineer II
Department: High Performance Computing
Salary Range: $90K-$105K DOQ
Pay Basis: Monthly
Position Status: Regular full-time
Location: Richardson
Posting Open Date: 07/31/2024
Open Until Filled: Yes
Desired Start Date: 08/19/2024
Job Summary
Reporting to the Director High Performance Computing (HPC) Facilitation, this is a mid-level HPC systems software engineer position with a required background in HPC environments. The engineer must demonstrate a consultative customer service attitude in prior roles in similar organizations. Primary responsibilities include:
- Installing and managing software to support researchers.
- Lifecycle management of software including patching and versioning.
- Tailoring installation and management according to researcher needs while leveraging HPC systems capabilities.
- Training users in the use of software through workshops.
- Preparing software documentation.
- Troubleshooting user software issues.
- Planning software use in HPC environments.
The applicant must have broad industry knowledge of hardware and/or software services involved in building and operating HPC environments.
Minimum Education and Experience
High school diploma with eight (8) years recent applicable experience.
Associate Degree with six (6) years recent applicable experience.
Bachelor's Degree with four (4) years recent applicable experience.
Preferred Education and Experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent with two years of experience in corresponding research services, support efforts, products, and technologies.
- Current knowledge of HPC best practices and systems deployment and maintenance.
- Troubleshooting methodology and awareness of industry standards.
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Good technical documentation, architecture diagramming, and organizational skills.
- Ability to manage support tickets and prioritize considering varied scope, scale, and technical requirements.
- Familiarity with data center operations fundamentals in networking and power.
- Experience in Linux operating system for installing and managing software.
- Ability to package scientific software into RPMs and containers (and integrate with Lmod for module loading).
- Familiarity with Apptainer/Singularity HPC/Docker/Kubernetes.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Be a software support engineer for the university HPC cluster or services with support from the core HPC team for complex scenarios.
- Respond to user tickets from faculty and students. Level 2 support experience at a scale of 1 to 3 with 3 being a senior specialist.
- Act as a role model in demonstrating integrity and ethical behavior in working with confidential and university information.
- Assist in the development and implementation of internal policies, rules, and operation procedures for HPC and cyber infrastructure.
- Perform annual updates and expert level software coding (prefer Python, Linux Shell, etc.) in at least two or more languages.
- Perform installation, configuration, updating, performance monitoring, and troubleshooting of software on HPC systems.
- Assist users with optimizing their software use for the underlying system capabilities.
- Assist customers with porting and optimizing code including selection and usage of appropriate development tools.
- Ability to package scientific software into RPMs and integrate with Lmod.
- Able to compile, test, and install various open-source scientific software packages as requested by research faculty, staff, and students.
Knowledge, Skills and Ability:
- Familiarity with at least two high-performance cluster operating systems such as OpenHPC, ROCKS, Bright/Nvidia Cluster Manager.
- Familiarity with large scale high performance parallel file storage systems such as WEKA, VAST, GPFS, BGFS, CEPH.
- Experience with installing and supporting open source and commercial research related software, Python, R, Matlab, Mathworks, Julia, Ansys, Intel, nVidia CUDA and GCC compilers.
- Experience with all related dev ops tools such as GitHub, GitLab, Ansible, package management tools for RPM and/or DEB package building.
- Experience with SLURM job scheduler.
Physical Demands and Working Conditions
On-call availability for quickly responding to and resolving system software emergencies, both during regular and emergency off-hours.
Hybrid remote work available for Texas residents with further discussion and agreement.
Sitting for extended periods. Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, and power tools, and to handle other computer components.
Occasional lifting and transporting of moderately heavy objects, such as computers, switches, and peripherals.
Visa sponsorship is not available.
What We Can Offer
UT Dallas is an Equal Opportunity Employer with an employee-friendly and supportive work environment. Our comprehensive compensation and benefits package includes:
- Competitive Salary
- Tuition Benefits
- Internal Training
- BCBS PPO Medical insurance - 100% paid for full-time employees
- PPO and DHMO Dental Insurance Plan - PPO plans include ortho benefits
- Vision Insurance
- Long and short-term disability
- TRS Retirement Plan - defined benefit plan offering lifetime annuity upon retirement
- Voluntary Retirement Plan Options - additional savings opportunities with Tax-Sheltered Annuity Plans and Deferred Compensation Plans
- Dental/Vision/AD&D
- Paid time off
- Paid Holidays
- Paid Winter Break
- Fertility Benefits
- Remote Work Options - approved by department
All UT Dallas employees have access to various professional development opportunities, including a membership to Academic Impressions, LinkedIn Learning, and UT Dallas Bright Leaders Program.
If you are looking for a rewarding career opportunity with great benefits, look no further! Join our team!
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Important Message
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