Senior Consultant - High Performance Computing

Summary

Join Burwood Group as a High-Performance Computing (HPC) Consultant to support cutting-edge research and innovation. Leverage your expertise in managing HPC resources, preferably within a higher education setting, to drive the maturity of HPC offerings and services in the cloud. Collaborate with Cloud, Data, and Development teams to enhance HPC capabilities for large-scale distributed cloud-powered computing. Develop close customer relationships to understand their needs and provide technical solutions. This role involves designing, implementing, and improving proprietary libraries and machine-learning pipelines, identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks, and delivering cost-efficient solutions. The position offers opportunities for professional growth and development within a dynamic and supportive work environment.

Requirements

• You are motivated by solving technical problems and helping clients achieve their technological goals
• You are collaborative in nature and enjoy working closely with customers and colleagues, understanding challenges, and building technical solutions together
• You are a detail-oriented, enthusiastic learner with the ability to work well as part of a team
• You enjoy problem-solving and workflow challenges
• You have excellent presentation skills, whether that be in-person, over-the-phone or e-mail, with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience in research, academic, or enterprise environments focusing on scientific or engineering applications is highly relevant
• Experience with identifying performance bottlenecks: at a low level, induced by the OS, from software architecture, or in a distributed system
• Demonstrable skills in system administration and the architecture, deployment, and optimization of HPC clusters
• Demonstrated analytical thinking and strong problem-solving abilities with a quantitative focus
• Consistently goal-driven, with a proven ability to meet and exceed performance targets
• Effective in both independent work and collaborative team environments
• Most work is expected to be completed remotely, but you are willing to travel should client project work require on-site activities
• Expert-level Linux/Unix Administration
• Deep knowledge of at least one major workload manager (Slurm highly preferred)
• Hands-on experience with underlying technologies, including high-speed networking and parallel file systems
• Working knowledge of containerization
• Experience working with and configuring GPU environments. TPU is a plus
• Familiarity with CI/CD (GitHub Actions, or Jenkins, etc.)
• Experience with Git/GitHub
• Strong scripting skills working in Python and Bash

Responsibilities

• Supporting clients by designing, implementing, and improving proprietary libraries and machine-learning pipelines
• Leveraging modern computer architecture to improve throughput or reduce costs
• Identifying compute waste and IO bottlenecks and delivering cost-efficient solutions at scale
• Establish relationships with customers, assisting them with technical solutions and solving problems
• Delivering value through project work and exceptional operational support to customers
• Maintaining awareness and leveraging the newest technologies, primarily from Google Cloud Platform, but also AWS

Preferred Qualifications

• Public cloud (Google, Azure, AWS) certifications are a plus
• Hands-on experience supporting research by designing, implementing and improving proprietary libraries and machine-learning pipelines

Benefits

• Generous vacation policy
• 401(k) and Roth 401(k) savings plan, complete with a company match
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Life and accident insurance
• Short and Long-Term Disability coverage
• Mental wellness programs
• Flexible spending accounts for pre-tax healthcare and transit/parking expenses
• Learning opportunities in support of career development
• Access to financial planning expertise