What are the responsibilities and job description for the Systems Engineer position at Haystack?
This institution is a world-renowned Ivy League research university known for its commitment to academic excellence and groundbreaking research across various fields. They are at the forefront of scientific discovery and technological innovation.
The Role
The Role
- Design, maintain, troubleshoot, and refine advanced HPC/AI cluster infrastructure, including high-performance interconnects and cluster schedulers
- Partner with colleagues to align designs for scratch filesystems and data management with cluster designs
- Develop data-transfer pathways and networks to support AI-driven computing workloads
- Define and drive the institutional technical strategy for advanced AI and data-intensive HPC
- Promote institution-wide collaboration, advising faculty, researchers, and vendors on emerging trends in AI-enabled research computing
- Monitor HPC clusters, networks, and storage systems for abnormalities, and resolve issues
- 10 years of strong experience managing advanced research computing systems
- Strong expertise with Linux system administration, installation, and troubleshooting
- Advanced experience writing scripts in languages such as bash, Python, and/or Perl
- Proficient in managing networking in HPC environments
- Experience supporting scheduling and managing jobs (SLURM) in large-scale computing environments
- Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to engage peers and diverse stakeholders effectively
- Opportunity to work at a leading research institution
- Engage with cutting-edge HPC and AI technologies
- Collaborative and knowledge-sharing environment
- Comprehensive benefits program