Principal Computational Engineer
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital1 month 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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