Research Engineer HPC​/AI; f​/m​/d Focus Daedalus System

Overview

This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge‑to‑cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next.

We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Would you like to perform world‑class research while also shaping products of the future? Are you interested in working with the most esteemed research partners across Europe?

• How can we best enable high performance research software on pre‑Exascale and Exascale supercomputers?
• How do we provide new environments/abstractions to support application developers to build, deploy, and run applications taking advantage of leading‑edge hardware at scale?
• How can HPC/AI systems and datacenters be made and operated in a sustainable way?
• How do we manage modern data‑intensive workloads in high performance environments and trusted research environments?

The HPE HPC & AI EMEA Research Lab (ERL) is characterized by a unique blend of industrial research and tech development using Agile/Lean methodologies. Our Research Engineers are highly technical, team‑thinking, communicative software/research engineers from a variety of backgrounds.

ERL is part of Hewlett Packard Labs, an international research organization with its headquarters and largest facility located in Milpitas, California. As the central research organization for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Hewlett Packard Labs' purpose is to deliver breakthrough technologies and technological advancements that provide a competitive advantage for the company, by investing in fundamental science and technology in areas of interest to HPE and getting the resulting technologies ready for adoption into new and existing markets.

• A dedicated international research team integrated inside one of the most established global companies in HPC.
• A group with varied expertise in many aspects of HPC/AI and related disciplines.
• A unique blend of the best of both worlds – quality research and development of real software.
• Engaged in a variety of HPC‑centric research projects, including Horizon Europe and Destination Earth.

We are looking for someone with the flexibility to work on both short‑ and longer‑term research projects, aligned with the activities of the Daedalus EuroHPC system at GRNet, with the ability to work both independently and collaboratively to achieve project outcomes. You should be enthusiastic to learn new technologies and able to communicate what you have learned to others.

Location
:
Basel or Zurich (Switzerland)

Start date
: 01. May or later

Mandatory Requirements
:
Valid work permit for Switzerland/EU

• Development experience in compiled languages such as C, C++ or Fortran and experience with interpreted environments such as Python.
• At least a
  
  B.Sc. equivalent in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematical discipline.
• Parallel programming experience, with programming models such as OpenMP, MPI, CUDA, OpenACC, HIP, PGAS languages, etc.
• An understanding of AI/ML frameworks; experience with frameworks such as Tensor Flow or PyTorch is highly desirable.
• An interest in system‑and data center monitoring and operational data analysis.

• Strong team spirit but capable of independence.
• Ability to represent oneself and the team both inside and outside the company.
• A knack for finding fun in the complex and difficult.

• Team‑based technical developments.
• Communicating with a diverse set of people – the team, our partners, the rest of the company, customers,…