What are the responsibilities and job description for the HPC Environments Group Leader (R&D Manager 4) position at Los Alamos National Laboratory?
What You Will Do
The work we do at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) matters to our country and the world! The High Performance Computing (HPC) Division provides production HPC and AI cycles and tokens to the Laboratory. Our work spans the early phases of acquisition, development, and production readiness of HPC and AI platforms, to the maintenance and operation of these systems and the facilities in which they are housed. HPC Division also manages the network, parallel file systems, storage, and visualization infrastructure associated with our HPC and AI platforms. The division directly supports the Laboratory's HPC and AI user base and aids at multiple levels in the effective use of HPC and AI resources to generate science and support our national security mission.
The High Performance Computing Environments group (HPC-ENV) provides direct customer support and interaction at any technical depth of HPC production systems within HPC Division, the Laboratory, and the NNSA complex. HPC Environments designs, manages and maintains the software environment for customer computing.
The group is also responsible for providing input and support to DOE HPC applications ensuring readiness on current and future HPC systems using performance analysis and profiling tools.
The HPC-ENV Group Leader (GL) is a key member and contributor on HPC Division's leadership team. The GL is responsible for supporting the strategic direction for the group, providing oversight on R&D initiatives, working with and supporting the division's leadership, developing and maintaining strong customer and cross-organizational relations, promoting a strong safety, security, and ethics culture, and assisting the HPC Division Office with other duties as assigned.
HPC-ENV Group Leader Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership: Serve as a key contributor in supporting the strategic direction for the group, providing oversight and coordination on technical initiatives to ensure resources and capabilities, and coordinating communication across organizational boundaries to promote quality customer service.
Organizational Management: Manage budgeting, forecasting, and financial management; capabilities and staff development; succession planning; personnel and salary management; performance appraisals; human resources management; mentoring; coaching; building effective teams; and ensuring a safe and secure workplace. Develop and maintain customer and cross-organizational relations, promote a strong safety, security, and ethics culture, and assist senior management with other duties as assigned.
Programmatic Engagement: The level of funding for line management activities in the group is one FTE shared between the Group Leader and Deputy Group Leader. The GL is expected to engage in programmatically funded activities to cover 50% of their time.
What You Need
Minimum Job Requirements:
Leadership
Leadership-level knowledge and demonstrated experience in at least two technical areas related to complex large-scale HPC and AI computing solutions, such as:
Desired Qualifications:
Position commitment: Regular appointment employees are required to serve a period of continuous service in their current position in order to be eligible to apply for posted jobs throughout the Laboratory. If an employee has not served the time required, they may only apply for Laboratory jobs with the documented approval of their Division Leader. The position commitment for this position is 1 year.
Note to Applicants: For full consideration, applicatants should submit a cover letter addressing how their knowledge, skills and abilities meet the minimum requirements with a resume.
Due to federal restrictions contained in the current National Defense Authorization Act, citizens of the People's Republic of China-including the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau-as well as citizens of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), and the Russian Federation, who are not Lawful Permanent Residents ("green card" holders) are prohibited from accessing facilities that support the mission, functions, and operations of national security laboratories and nuclear weapons production facilities, which includes Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Where You Will Work
Located in beautiful northern New Mexico, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is a multidisciplinary research institution engaged in strategic science on behalf of national security. Our generous benefits package includes:
Directive 206.2 - Employment with Triad requires a favorable decision by NNSA indicating employee is suitable under NNSA Supplemental Directive 206.2. Please note that this requirement applies only to citizens of the United States. Foreign nationals are subject to a similar requirement under DOE Order 142.3A.
Clearance: Q (Position will be cleared to this level). Selected applicants will be subject to a background investigation conducted by or on behalf of the Federal Government, and must meet eligibility requirements* for access to classified matter. This position requires a Q clearance. and obtaining such clearance requires US Citizenship except in extremely rare circumstances. Dependent upon the position, additional authorization to access classified information may be required, which may or may not be available to dual citizens. Receipt of a Q clearance and additional access authorization ultimately is a decision of the Federal Government and not of Triad.
Regular position: Term status Laboratory employees applying for regular-status positions are converted to regular status.
Internal Applicants: Regular appointment employees who have served the required period of continuous service in their current position are eligible to apply for posted jobs throughout the Laboratory. If an employee has not served the required period of continuous service, they may only apply for Laboratory jobs with the documented approval of their Division Leader. Please refer to Policy Policy P701 for applicant eligibility requirements.
Incentive Compensation Program: Position is eligible to participate in the Triad Incentive Compensation Program. You must be in an eligible position for a minimum of 3 months, before July 1st and remain in an eligible position as of the end of the fiscal year, September 30th. The annual distribution is prorated based on the number of months in the eligible position.
Equal Opportunity: Los Alamos National Laboratory is an equal opportunity employer. All employment practices are based on qualification and merit, without regard to protected categories such as race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status or spousal affiliation, physical or mental disability, medical conditions, pregnancy, status as a protected veteran, genetic information, or citizenship within the limits imposed by federal, state, and local laws and regulations. The Laboratory is also committed to making our workplace accessible to individuals with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodations, upon request, for individuals to participate in the application and hiring process. To request such an accommodation, please send an email to applyhelp@lanl.gov or call (505)-664-6947.
The work we do at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) matters to our country and the world! The High Performance Computing (HPC) Division provides production HPC and AI cycles and tokens to the Laboratory. Our work spans the early phases of acquisition, development, and production readiness of HPC and AI platforms, to the maintenance and operation of these systems and the facilities in which they are housed. HPC Division also manages the network, parallel file systems, storage, and visualization infrastructure associated with our HPC and AI platforms. The division directly supports the Laboratory's HPC and AI user base and aids at multiple levels in the effective use of HPC and AI resources to generate science and support our national security mission.
The High Performance Computing Environments group (HPC-ENV) provides direct customer support and interaction at any technical depth of HPC production systems within HPC Division, the Laboratory, and the NNSA complex. HPC Environments designs, manages and maintains the software environment for customer computing.
The group is also responsible for providing input and support to DOE HPC applications ensuring readiness on current and future HPC systems using performance analysis and profiling tools.
The HPC-ENV Group Leader (GL) is a key member and contributor on HPC Division's leadership team. The GL is responsible for supporting the strategic direction for the group, providing oversight on R&D initiatives, working with and supporting the division's leadership, developing and maintaining strong customer and cross-organizational relations, promoting a strong safety, security, and ethics culture, and assisting the HPC Division Office with other duties as assigned.
HPC-ENV Group Leader Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership: Serve as a key contributor in supporting the strategic direction for the group, providing oversight and coordination on technical initiatives to ensure resources and capabilities, and coordinating communication across organizational boundaries to promote quality customer service.
Organizational Management: Manage budgeting, forecasting, and financial management; capabilities and staff development; succession planning; personnel and salary management; performance appraisals; human resources management; mentoring; coaching; building effective teams; and ensuring a safe and secure workplace. Develop and maintain customer and cross-organizational relations, promote a strong safety, security, and ethics culture, and assist senior management with other duties as assigned.
Programmatic Engagement: The level of funding for line management activities in the group is one FTE shared between the Group Leader and Deputy Group Leader. The GL is expected to engage in programmatically funded activities to cover 50% of their time.
What You Need
Minimum Job Requirements:
Leadership
- Experience managing cross-functional R&D teams consisting of HPC Engineers and HPC Architects providing innovative solutions
- Demonstrated experience leading organizational change through strategic planning and tactical operations management
- Ability to inform a variety of stakeholders, including evolving your thinking, influencing and motivating others, and gaining acceptance in sensitive situations while fostering strong relationships
- Experience as a key contributor in the development and execution of vision, strategic plans, and goals for your group or team
Leadership-level knowledge and demonstrated experience in at least two technical areas related to complex large-scale HPC and AI computing solutions, such as:
- Computing hardware and operating systems
- Consulting for HPC/AI computing environments
- Workload management and scheduling
- Programming and runtime environments
- Network infrastructure and technology
- Application readiness
- Data analytics and/or AI application support
- Experience managing more than one of the following: budgets, schedules, performance standards, staffing, hiring, forecasting, mentoring, staff development, succession planning, personnel and salary management, and ensuring a safe and secure workplace for an organizational unit
- Ability to use data to build cases for necessary change, measure progress, and demonstrate success
- Experience collaborating with senior management, internal customers, stakeholders, and peer organizations to achieve alignment between institutional priorities and allocation of resources
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical staff to set and achieve organizational goals
- Experience in effective decision-making and creative problem-solving
- Experience building collaborative relationships across organizational boundaries
Desired Qualifications:
- Advanced knowledge of governmental policies and procedures, particularly those related to personnel management, budget oversight, safety and security, environment, and community relations
- Experience with large-scale simulation of complex physical processes or with the use or deployment of AI software or methodologies
Position commitment: Regular appointment employees are required to serve a period of continuous service in their current position in order to be eligible to apply for posted jobs throughout the Laboratory. If an employee has not served the time required, they may only apply for Laboratory jobs with the documented approval of their Division Leader. The position commitment for this position is 1 year.
Note to Applicants: For full consideration, applicatants should submit a cover letter addressing how their knowledge, skills and abilities meet the minimum requirements with a resume.
Due to federal restrictions contained in the current National Defense Authorization Act, citizens of the People's Republic of China-including the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau-as well as citizens of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), and the Russian Federation, who are not Lawful Permanent Residents ("green card" holders) are prohibited from accessing facilities that support the mission, functions, and operations of national security laboratories and nuclear weapons production facilities, which includes Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Where You Will Work
Located in beautiful northern New Mexico, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is a multidisciplinary research institution engaged in strategic science on behalf of national security. Our generous benefits package includes:
- PPO or High Deductible medical insurance with the same large nationwide network
- Dental and vision insurance
- Free basic life and disability insurance
- Paid childbirth and parental leave
- Award-winning 401(k) (6% matching plus 3.5% annually)
- Learning opportunities and tuition assistance
- Flexible schedules and time off (PTO and holidays)
- Onsite gyms and wellness programs
- Extensive relocation packages (outside a 50 mile radius)
Directive 206.2 - Employment with Triad requires a favorable decision by NNSA indicating employee is suitable under NNSA Supplemental Directive 206.2. Please note that this requirement applies only to citizens of the United States. Foreign nationals are subject to a similar requirement under DOE Order 142.3A.
Clearance: Q (Position will be cleared to this level). Selected applicants will be subject to a background investigation conducted by or on behalf of the Federal Government, and must meet eligibility requirements* for access to classified matter. This position requires a Q clearance. and obtaining such clearance requires US Citizenship except in extremely rare circumstances. Dependent upon the position, additional authorization to access classified information may be required, which may or may not be available to dual citizens. Receipt of a Q clearance and additional access authorization ultimately is a decision of the Federal Government and not of Triad.
- Eligibility requirements: To obtain a clearance, an individual must be at least 18 years of age; U.S. citizenship is required except in very limited circumstances. See DOE Order 472.2 for additional information.
Regular position: Term status Laboratory employees applying for regular-status positions are converted to regular status.
Internal Applicants: Regular appointment employees who have served the required period of continuous service in their current position are eligible to apply for posted jobs throughout the Laboratory. If an employee has not served the required period of continuous service, they may only apply for Laboratory jobs with the documented approval of their Division Leader. Please refer to Policy Policy P701 for applicant eligibility requirements.
Incentive Compensation Program: Position is eligible to participate in the Triad Incentive Compensation Program. You must be in an eligible position for a minimum of 3 months, before July 1st and remain in an eligible position as of the end of the fiscal year, September 30th. The annual distribution is prorated based on the number of months in the eligible position.
Equal Opportunity: Los Alamos National Laboratory is an equal opportunity employer. All employment practices are based on qualification and merit, without regard to protected categories such as race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status or spousal affiliation, physical or mental disability, medical conditions, pregnancy, status as a protected veteran, genetic information, or citizenship within the limits imposed by federal, state, and local laws and regulations. The Laboratory is also committed to making our workplace accessible to individuals with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodations, upon request, for individuals to participate in the application and hiring process. To request such an accommodation, please send an email to applyhelp@lanl.gov or call (505)-664-6947.