Job Description

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide expert advice to on-board new users to NSCC\xe2\x80\x99s systems.
• Engage with new researchers, communities and disciplines with data-intensive computing.
• Translate user requirements into optimal computational work plans.
• Assist in the design of NSCC\'s HPC/AI systems, including benchmarking NSCC workloads on various platforms and recommending the most suitable architecture for the research community.
• Design and implement scalable and performant HPC/AI software infrastructure with ease of maintenance.
• Analyse system and user job data for efficient resource allocations and management.
• Profile and optimise the user applications and workflow on the NSCC\'s HPC/AI systems.
• Develop utility and automated testing tools for NSCC\'s HPC/AI systems.
• Develop user guide and best practice guide documents for NSCC\'s HPC/AI systems.

QUALIFICATIONS

• A postgraduate qualification or significant progress towards postgraduate qualifications in a relevant
• scientific or computer science discipline.
• Proven working knowledge of HPC/AI system and software.
• Experience with HPC/AI development toolchain and scientific application software stack (GCC, oneAPI, AOCC, AOCL, MPI, CUDA, HDF5, MKL, FFTW, PyTorch, Tensorflow) on building HPC/AI software is essential, knowledge in using Spack or EasyBuild and Python programming is a plus.
• Familiar with HPC job schedulers (PBS or SLURM), OpenMP & MPI, and container technologies (Docker or Singularity).
• Familiar with Kubernetes and AI frameworks is a plus.
• Familiar with programming languages, Linux and HPC profiler & debugger tools e.g. Bash, C/C++, Fortran, Python, Conda, GDB, Git and IPM.
• Familiar with HPC storage e.g. GPFS and Lustre.
• Demonstrated good team play spirit and high-level problem solving skills.
• Demonstrated effective communication skill including the ability to articulate technical concepts to a diverse range of clients.
• Demonstrated ability & willingness to contribute novel ideas and approaches in support of research community.
• At least one published journal article or conference paper related to the field (please provide reference)
• To be considered for a senior position, the candidate should have at least 3 years of relevant experience in a similar position and environment.

The above eligibility criteria are not exhaustive. A*STAR may include additional selection criteria based on its prevailing recruitment policies. These policies may be amended from time to time without notice. We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.