Our university-wide research into AI has a shared need for high-performance computing. As our AI-HPC community grows rapidly, well-organised support, training and a comprehensive vision for the development and use of our clusters are crucial. As Senior HPC Engineer, you will be in the lead to further develop our HPC research facility. Building your team of HPC engineers almost from scratch, you’ll recruit, manage and coach your engineers. Together, you’ll make sure that the clusters operate properly and that the community is fully supported and well-trained, for which you’ll develop training programmes.

Based on your vision, you will devise and implement a strategy that serves our AI-HPC community, from students and researchers to educators. To align their needs and interests, you will manage the User Board, in which key users from across TU Delft are represented. Strategic planning and budgeting, introducing policies and rules, and decision-making on cluster changes are all part of your joint remit. And as our HPC facility has no dedicated budget, you will secure funding from the various faculties and AI labs. That means building your network of stakeholders and decision makers at TU Delft. You’ll also be actively involved in the global academic community at large and promote our HPC facility, increasing our visibility. 

You’ll work closely with a growing team of researchers and engineers from various departments, Central ICT and the DelftBlue supercomputer facility. With the last you’ll be working towards a joint strategy to strengthen TU Delft’s computing power. Ours is a friendly and open environment in which you will get all the support you need to grow your role and your team. A vibrant group of highly-motivated people from different backgrounds, we share a drive to enhance our HPC capabilities, supporting groundbreaking research and world-class education!

• You leverage your managerial and communication experience to motivate your team and align stakeholders of a campus-wide HPC strategy.
• You have a good command of English and if you’re not yet proficient in Dutch, you are willing to learn the language.
• You take ownership of your projects and lead them to success. You identify new project needs and opportunities together with the user community.
• You hold a BSc or MSc, or have graduate-level ability and experience in computer science or another relevant subject.
• You have in-depth knowledge of the compute-intensive domain.
• You have demonstrable experience with high-performance batch computing environments  and you either have experience with cloud(-like) deployment, or are quick to learn.

Fixed-term contract: 1 year.

• A salary based on scale 11, ( € 3.974 - € 5.439-) depending on education and
  work experience) according to the Collective Labor Agreement of the Dutch
  Universities, plus 8% holiday allowance and an end-of-year bonus of 8.3%.
• The offer contains a temporary appointment with the prospect of permanent.
• An excellent pension scheme via the ABP.
• The possibility to compile an individual employment package every year.
• Discount with health insurers.
• Flexible working week.
• Every year, 232 leave hours (at 38 hours). You can also sell or buy additional leave hours via the individual choice budget.
• Plenty of opportunities for education, training and courses.
• Partially paid parental leave
• Attention for working healthy and energetically with the vitality program.

Delft University of Technology

Delft University of Technology is built on strong foundations. As creators of the world-famous Dutch waterworks and pioneers in biotech, TU Delft is a top international university combining science, engineering and design. It delivers world class results in education, research and innovation to address challenges in the areas of energy, climate, mobility, health and digital society. For generations, our engineers have proven to be entrepreneurial problem-solvers, both in business and in a social context.

At TU Delft we embrace diversity as one of our core values and we actively engage to be a university where you feel at home and can flourish. We value different perspectives and qualities. We believe this makes our work more innovative, the TU Delft community more vibrant and the world more just. Together, we imagine, invent and create solutions using technology to have a positive impact on a global scale. That is why we invite you to apply. Your application will receive fair consideration.

Challenge. Change. Impact!

Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

The Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS) brings together three disciplines - electrical engineering, mathematics and computer science. Combined, they reinforce each other and are the driving force behind the technology we use in our daily lives. Technology such as the electricity grid, which our faculty is helping to make future-proof. We are also working on a world in which humans and computers reinforce each other. We are mapping out disease processes using single cell data, and using mathematics to simulate gigantic ash plumes after a volcanic eruption. There is plenty of room here for ground-breaking research. We educate innovative engineers and have excellent labs and facilities that underline our strong international position. In total, more than 1,100 employees and 4,000 students work and study in this innovative environment.

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