Principal Computational Engineer
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital3 months ago
Memphis, TN, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$114k - $216k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define long-term technical vision and strategy for computational systems supporting basic science and translational research.
- Lead the design, evaluation, feasibility analysis, and implementation of scalable scientific computing applications and systems.
- Guide architecture, software installation, configuration, testing, file management, data processing, security, and performance monitoring.
- Evaluate emerging computational technologies and resources for application development and research computing.
- Translate complex scientific requirements into sustainable, secure, scalable computational capabilities.
- Provide project management guidance for delivery within timelines, budgets, and design specifications.
- Engage with regulatory and institutional groups to protect patient data and support compliance.
- Mentor engineering team members, provide training, and promote cross-training across technical areas.
- Advise researchers and multidisciplinary stakeholders on computational tools, infrastructure, algorithms, and resources.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in computer science, data science, information science, mathematics, or a related field is required; a PhD is preferred.
- At least 8 years of progressive experience developing, optimizing, or maintaining scientific or computational applications is required.
- Demonstrated success delivering complex projects and contributing impact within a technical specialty.
- Experience collaborating across disciplines, leading projects, and guiding team members.
- Recognized expertise in algorithms, pipelines, or systems development.
- Preferred experience supporting research computing environments and bioinformatics, bioimage, or related life science pipelines.
- Preferred experience with HPC schedulers including Slurm, LSF, and Kubernetes.
- Expertise in parallel programming and high-performance computing using OpenMP, MPI, and Pthreads.
- Strong skills with UNIX/Linux scripting languages, high-level programming languages, computational algorithms, HPC applications, data processing, scalability, and reliability.
- Ability to communicate with senior stakeholders, influence through facts and logic, analyze complex issues, and address customer and organizational needs.
Benefits
- St. Jude describes exceptional benefits.
- The role is a regular employee position with regular and predictable attendance expectations.
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About St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is a nonprofit pediatric research hospital that treats children with cancer and other life‑threatening diseases and advances therapies through in-house labs, clinical trials, and data resources like St. Jude Cloud. Founded in 1962 and headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, it is funded primarily by public donations raised by ALSAC and by research grants. The hospital provides care regardless of a family’s ability to pay and collaborates globally.