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San Francisco, CA - USA

Yearly Salary drjobs

$ 150000 - 170000

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1 Vacancy

Job Description

Job Description
The CoreHPC team at UCSF is seeking an HPC Systems Engineer to play a key role in the development maintenance and daytoday operations of the Institutes HPC clusters.

The Senior HPC Systems Engineer will:
  • Apply advanced systems infrastructure concepts and skills to the operations and improvement of largescale and highly complex research Cyber Infrastructure (CI) with unique computing networking and storage systems designed to address cuttingedge research problems
  • Apply their engineering and design skills to develop new CI solutions and to develop and enhance monitoring to maintain the integrity of CI systems.
  • Select methods techniques and evaluation criteria to develop new CI solutions to address complex research problems.
  • Be an active member of the support and maintenance efforts for the CoreHPC cluster resolving user issues fixing technical problems resolving outages patching and maintaining systems uptime and availability.
  • Provides consultation support and guidance to researchers on how to address computational problems using standard tools packages and approaches.
  • Develop enhancements of monitoring to maintain the integrity of CI systems.
  • Participate in multiple technical projects simultaneously.
  • Applies working knowledge of security control frameworks to maintain the integrity of the CI systems and the research being performed on them.
  • Gives presentations to associated team and other technical units.
  • Evaluates new technologies including performing moderate to complex cost / benefit analyses.
This position may lead crossfunctional technical working groups and projects in support of onboarding research customers or making systems improvements.

The final salary and offer components are subject to additional approvals based on UC policy.

our placement within the salary range is dependent on a number of factors including your work experience and internal equity within this position classification at UCSF. For positions that are represented by a labor union placement within the salary range will be guided by the rules in the collective bargaining agreement.

The salary range for this position is $150000 $170000 (Annual Rate).

To learn more about the benefits of working at UCSF including total compensation please visit: degree in a related area such as computer science or engineering and 6 years of experience with largescale or HPC systems

  • * or* 10 years of related experience with largescale or HPC systems
  • Ability to elicit and communicate technical and nontechnical information in a clear and concise manner.
  • Selfmotivated and works independently and as part of a team.
  • Demonstrates problemsolving skills. Able to learn effectively and meet deadlines.
  • Expert knowledge of HPC systems infrastructure design
  • Advanced knowledge of High performance parallel filesystems and storage such as GPFS Lustre Vast DDN etc
  • Understanding of system performance monitoring and actions that can be taken to improve or correct performance.
  • Demonstrated advanced knowledge skills and abilities associated with system problem identification and resolution.
  • Experience with design configuration operation repair and tuning of technology systems.
  • Advanced experience writing and editing the most complex scripts used to perform system maintenance and administration.
  • Advanced knowledge of computer security best practices and policies including demonstrated experience securing research cyberinfrastructure systems to meet NIST 800171 / 800223 HIPPA or IS3 requirements
  • Demonstrated testing and test planning skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to create automated testing.
  • Knowledge of HPC job scheduler system design and operation such as SLURM or PBS
  • Demonstrated skill 5 years deploying managing and troubleshooting Warewulf (or similar) infinibandbased clusters
  • Ability to write technical documentation in a clear and concise manner.
  • Ability to develop runbooks defining complex technical processes in a clear and concise manner


    • Advanced knowledge of the design development and application of technology and systems to meet business needs.
    • General knowledge of other areas of IT.
    • Thorough understanding of and experience with systemsrelated issues and actions that can be taken to improve or correct performance.
    • Demonstrated skills associated with adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.
    • Demonstrated a comprehensive understanding of how system management actions affect other systems system users and dependent/related functions.


    Equal Employment Opportunity
    The University of California San Francisco is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age protected veteran or disabled status or genetic information.

    Department Description
    Academic Research Systems (ARS) serves the needs of the UCSF research community by providing an integrated repository of HIPAA compliant clinical and life sciences data and a centralized secure professionally managed infrastructure for the storage and management of research data. ARS empowers medical scientific investigations by offering secure computing environments data capture management and analysis tools and support services which meet researchers needs.

    The Core HPC team of the Academic Research Service (ARS) focuses on large scale high performance computational and storage services for UCSF researchers so they can address complex computational AI and data science problems.

    About UCSF
    The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) is a leading university dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research graduatelevel education in the life sciences and health professions and excellence in patient care. It is the only campus in the 10campus UC system dedicated exclusively to the health sciences. We bring together the worlds leading experts in nearly every area of health. We are home to five Nobel laureates who have advanced the understanding of cancer neurodegenerative diseases aging and stem cells.

    Pride Values
    UCSF is a diverse community made of people with many skills and talents. We seek candidates whose work experience or community service has prepared them to contribute to our commitment to professionalism respect integrity diversity and excellence also known as our PRIDE values.

    In addition to our PRIDE values UCSF is committed to equity both in how we deliver care as well as our workforce. We are committed to building a broadly diverse community nurturing a culture that is welcoming and supportive and engaging diverse ideas for the provision of culturally competent education discovery and patient care. Additional information about UCSF is available at


    Join us to find a rewarding career contributing to improving healthcare worldwide.

    Employment Type

    Full Time

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