What are the responsibilities and job description for the AI Supercomputing Infrastructure Engineer (x3 FTE) position at University of Bristol - School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience?
The role
The Bristol Centre for Supercomputing (BriCS) runs the Isambard-AI National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource, recently announced AI Data facility and the Isambard3 Tier-2 Supercomputer. Isambard-AI is the most powerful supercomputer in the UK and amongst the most powerful in Europe.
The AI Supercomputing team owns the entire process of developing and operating the centre’s compute and software infrastructure, which includes:
In this role, you will work as part of the AI Supercomputing Team to build and operate primarily the infrastructure and compute platforms that researchers use for their work. You do not need to be an AI or computational research domain expert to deliver world-class infrastructure, but you do need to quickly obtain a deep technical understanding of new domains. You should enjoy being self-directed and identifying the most important problems to solve as the team matures with standardized tools and processes around stability, robust service delivery and scaling.
This role supports hybrid working arrangements to provide flexibility. While the Centre's operational needs require successful candidates to start as soon as possible, we are able to accommodate individual notice periods to attract top talent.
Please note: This is a rolling advertisement for three full-time equivalent (FTE) positions for the same role. While a closing date is displayed on the system, applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis in tranches throughout the advertising period.
The advert will close once all three positions have been filled. We therefore strongly encourage candidates to apply at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment.
What will you be doing?
As a member of the AI Supercomputing Team, you will;
Additional information
For any informal enquiries, please contact Emma Rose, Centre Manager - emma.rose@bristol.ac.uk.
Contract type: Open ended with fixed funding until August 2030.
Work pattern: Monday - Friday, 35 hours per week.
Positions available: x3 FTE
Grade: K
Salary: £50,253 - £58,225 per annum.
School/Unit: Bristol Centre for Supercomputing (BriCS)
This advert will close at 23:59 UK time on Friday, 31st July.
The interview date will be confirmed shortly.
Our strategy and mission
We recently launched our strategy to 2030 tying together our mission, vision and values.
The University of Bristol aims to be a place where everyone feels able to be themselves and do their best in an inclusive working environment where all colleagues can thrive and reach their full potential. We want to attract, develop, and retain individuals with different experiences, backgrounds and perspectives – particularly people of colour, LGBT and disabled people - because diversity of people and ideas remains integral to our excellence as a global civic institution.
Available documents
The Bristol Centre for Supercomputing (BriCS) runs the Isambard-AI National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource, recently announced AI Data facility and the Isambard3 Tier-2 Supercomputer. Isambard-AI is the most powerful supercomputer in the UK and amongst the most powerful in Europe.
The AI Supercomputing team owns the entire process of developing and operating the centre’s compute and software infrastructure, which includes:
- The sourcing of hardware and system design.
- The deployment of huge software-defined infrastructure using tools such as Kubernetes and Terraform / OpenTofu.
- Building and operating platforms to enable researchers to conduct leading-edge research using the systems.
- Optimising and refining software to ensure environmental and economic efficient use.
In this role, you will work as part of the AI Supercomputing Team to build and operate primarily the infrastructure and compute platforms that researchers use for their work. You do not need to be an AI or computational research domain expert to deliver world-class infrastructure, but you do need to quickly obtain a deep technical understanding of new domains. You should enjoy being self-directed and identifying the most important problems to solve as the team matures with standardized tools and processes around stability, robust service delivery and scaling.
This role supports hybrid working arrangements to provide flexibility. While the Centre's operational needs require successful candidates to start as soon as possible, we are able to accommodate individual notice periods to attract top talent.
Please note: This is a rolling advertisement for three full-time equivalent (FTE) positions for the same role. While a closing date is displayed on the system, applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis in tranches throughout the advertising period.
The advert will close once all three positions have been filled. We therefore strongly encourage candidates to apply at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment.
What will you be doing?
As a member of the AI Supercomputing Team, you will;
- Use tools such as Python, Rust, Terraform / OpenTofu, Kubernetes, Git and Bash.
- Design and operate large, highly available supercomputing services managed as software-defined infrastructures, and integrated as complete computational experiments.
- You will experience designing and operating massive-scale GPU and combined CPU/GPU workloads across these services.
- You will design and debug platforms, and will work closely with researchers as you co-design solutions that will enable the development and operation of new algorithms and software to solve leading-edge research problems.
- Want to help build, maintain and secure some of the largest, modern software-defined supercomputing systems.
- Would enjoy working with world class domain and AI researchers as your primary workload.
- Have built small to large clusters or dabbled in building your own physical or software-defined systems, and have motivation to scale up to something massive and nationally impactful .
- Love building large distributed, highly available systems, and want to see them used for truly open national-scale research in a cybersecurity compliant manner.
- Domain expertise in 1 or more areas from NetOps and DevOps.
- Degree (or equivalent practical experience) in computer science, computational or ML/AI research or in a natural science with a high degree of competence in computer science or computational research.
- Good organisational skills to manage not just your own workload but also that of less experienced members of the team.
Additional information
For any informal enquiries, please contact Emma Rose, Centre Manager - emma.rose@bristol.ac.uk.
Contract type: Open ended with fixed funding until August 2030.
Work pattern: Monday - Friday, 35 hours per week.
Positions available: x3 FTE
Grade: K
Salary: £50,253 - £58,225 per annum.
School/Unit: Bristol Centre for Supercomputing (BriCS)
This advert will close at 23:59 UK time on Friday, 31st July.
The interview date will be confirmed shortly.
Our strategy and mission
We recently launched our strategy to 2030 tying together our mission, vision and values.
The University of Bristol aims to be a place where everyone feels able to be themselves and do their best in an inclusive working environment where all colleagues can thrive and reach their full potential. We want to attract, develop, and retain individuals with different experiences, backgrounds and perspectives – particularly people of colour, LGBT and disabled people - because diversity of people and ideas remains integral to our excellence as a global civic institution.
Available documents
- AISI Engineer_BriCS_JD.pdf
Salary : $50,253 - $58,225