What are the responsibilities and job description for the HPC Consultant position at KPI Partners?
About KPI Partners
KPI Partners is a 5 times Gartner recognized data, analytics, and AI consulting company. We are leaders in data engineering on Azure, AWS, Google, Snowflake and Databricks. Founded in 2006, KPI has over 400 consultants and has successfully delivered over 1,000 projects to our clients.
Title: Senior HPC Consultant
Location: Fremont, CA / Portland, OR (Hybrid) – 2-3 Days onsite in a week
Job Type: Contract – 12 Months
Key Skills: High Performance Computing, Linux administration: Parallel file system (Eg. Gluster, Lustre, ZFS, Gluster, Luster, NFS, CIFS), MPI (OpenMPI, MPICH2, IntelMIP), Infiniband.
About the Role:
We are seeking an experienced High Performance Computing platform consultant to provide Support to India/Asia/EU region users and carry out platform enhancements and reliability improvement projects as aligned with the HPC Architect
Must-Have Skills & Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 8-10 years of experience in High Performance Computing technologies
- Experienced in
- HPC Environment: Familiar with the use of HPC – Ansys/Fluent over MPI, helping users to tune their jobs in an HPC environment
- Linux administration
- Parallel file system (Eg. Gluster, Lustre, ZFS, Gluster, Luster, NFS, CIFS)
- MPI (OpenMPI, MPICH2, IntelMIP), Infiniband
- parallel computing
- Monitoring tools – Eg. Nagios
- Programming skills, such as in Python, would be nice to have, especially using MPI
- Experienced and hands-on with Cloud technologies: Prefer using Azure and Terraform for VM creations and maintenance
- Effective communication skills (the resource would independently engage and address user requests and resolve incidents for global regions – Asia, EU included)
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with ANSYS, COMSOL and complex simulation Products for engineering analysis