Lenovo

Would you like to join our team of HPC/AI team of engineers at Lenovo to drive leadership with the next generation of both air and liquid-cooled high-performance computational platforms?

To achieve our mission, we are seeking a driven and innovative Advisory HPC Performance & Acceptance Engineer focused on putting our systems through rigorous testing at scale.

This high impact role requires solid technical and personal skills as well as the ability to collaborate effectively across multiple teams and with customers. In this role, you will be responsible for running commercial, open source and some home-grown applications across a variety of processor and accelerator technologies. These skills will be used to support acceptance testing activity once a solution has been delivered to a customer site as well as to support the Lenovo HPC sales team with identifying the ideal technology for a given workload. These deliverables are critical to Lenovo’s ability to deliver large-scale, high-performance computation efficiently and effectively in some of the world’s largest Supercomputers.

You will also interface with key stakeholders both inside and outside Lenovo to ensure systems meet performance expectations and that the teams are designing and offering the best solutions possible.

You will report in to the HPC Performance and Benchmarking team supporting customers globally. You will participate in a combination of virtual and in person meetings with fellow team members, sellers, architects and customers. There may be occasions when customer site attendance is required. The goal is to help ensure customer system performance meets expectations and to select the right technologies for their unique needs.

What else is waiting for you in this role?

• Investigate and resolve computational performance issues related to HPC applications and Lenovo servers.
• Support Lenovo professional services with running acceptance testing and solving performance issues on cluster new systems.
• Interact with customers and the Lenovo sales team to offer insight into workload performance characteristics that drive system configurations.
• Deliver acceptance testing reports to support closure of projects.
• Support performance and benchmarking activities prior to customer bid submission.
• Develop seller enablement collateral for Lenovo Sellers and Business Partners, and participate in sales enablement activities.
• Attend conferences and workshops relevant to HPC and stay current with HPC trends

What do we expect from you?

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or relevant experience.
• 5+ years of experience working with Linux.
• 5+ years of working with scientific code and performance tuning.
• 5+ years of experience of scripting and coding, with specific experience of more than one of: Bash, Python, C++, C, Fortran.
• 5+ years of experience with High Performance Computing technology, including servers, Infiniband interconnects, accelerators, and storage solutions.
• 3+ years of experience of using parallel applications using OpenMP or MPI.
• 3+ years of experience of running performance and benchmarking codes, with specific experience of more than one of: HPL, Stream, IMB/OSU, MLperf, ior, mdtest.
• 3+ years of experience of large-scale filesystems (ideally Spectrum Scale), batch scheduling (ideally SLURM) as well as common HPC SW and management tools.
• 3+ years of experience of using parallel and/or accelerated applications using more than one of OpenMP, MPI, CUDA, ROCm, OpenCL, SYCL.
• Knowledge of networking and security practices.
• Ability to work under deadlines.
• Problem solving and critical thinking skills.
• A proven track record for developing value propositions around technology, with strong presentation skills for both external and internal engagements.
• Innovative and a willingness to learn in a fast-paced environment.

What We Will Offer You:

Your experience working for ISG at Lenovo will be exciting, innovating, and challenging. The ISG commitment to PeopleFirst is focused on Employee Experience, Leadership, and One Team, all driving operational excellence and providing you supportive resources to launch your professional career.