Location: Baltimore, MD
Cap-Exempt H-1B Position — No lottery required
IT@JH Research Computingis seeking a *Sr. HPC Systems Engineer* who will design, build, and maintain advanced high-performance computing environments supporting Johns Hopkins University’s research mission. This position focuses on the reliable operation, configuration, and optimization of HPC and AI systems, including multi-node CPU and GPU clusters, high-speed InfiniBand and Ethernet networks, and large-scale parallel and object storage. The engineer implements and automates secure, efficient, and reproducible computing platforms used by faculty, researchers, and students across diverse scientific disciplines. Assignments include both ticket-based support and project-based deployments. The role operates with moderate independence, collaborating closely with the IT Architect, Research Computing, and reporting to the IT Manager for Research Computing to ensure scalable, sustainable, and high-performance systems that enable cutting-edge scientific discovery. **Specific Duties & Responsibilities** - Support and administer production systems used by researchers and Research Centers. - Provide technical leadership/project management for system configuration, implementation, management, and user support for both new and existing systems. - Research and recommend new functionality for HPC management and administration tools by exploring system-wide impacts, working with functional users to define current and future processes. - Expertise with architecting, operating, and debugging large scale HPC network and storage infrastructure, including MPI, NCCL, RDMA, Infiniband, and parallel file systems - Works with scientific support specialists and assigns tasks and provides oversight as appropriate to HPC engineering team to support scientific researchers who use a broad spectrum of applications from diverse fields. - Analyze results of server monitoring and implement changes to improve performance, processing, and utilization. - Propose, maintain, and enforce policies, practic