The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) develops and operates a high-performance computing and data research infrastructure supporting world-class science in Switzerland. Its user laboratory is available to researchers in academia, industry, and the business sector, both domestically and internationally. CSCS is operated by ETH Zurich and has offices at its data centre in Lugano and in Zurich. For this position, the work location is Lugano.
As high-performance computing, AI, and cloud technologies converge, CSCS is redefining how advanced computational services are designed and delivered. Modern scientific and engineering workloads are complex, data-intensive, and highly diverse, pushing existing infrastructure to its limits. This position offers a contract initially limited to two years, with the opportunity to contribute to a fast-evolving AI landscape and support high-impact initiatives nationally and internationally, including the Swiss AI Initiative and programs in the weather and climate domain. The initial contract could potentially be extended or become permanent.
Tasks
- Develop and manage HPC/AI services on top of a multi-tenant infrastructure.
- Contribute to the design, implementation, maintenance, and documentation of platform services to support HPC and AI.
- Investigate, troubleshoot, and debug platform services and infrastructure resources.
- Develop, maintain, and support tools and pipelines for platforms on a geographically redundant infrastructure.
- Develop automations to provision, test, deploy, and monitor resources for HPC and AI platforms.
- Support, document, and share knowledge of tools and procedures.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or higher degree in computer engineering, computer science, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Sound knowledge of deployment of HPC, AI, or Cloud infrastructures.
- Experience in management of HPC/AI services to maximize utilization of compute, storage, and high-speed network components.
- Working knowledge of automation tools and frameworks, including CI/CD processes and ecosystem.
- Linux administration skills.
- Preferred experience with versioning systems and CI/CD workflows such as ArgoCD.
- Preferred experience debugging microservices running on Kubernetes.
- Preferred experience with performance monitoring and diagnostic tools for HPC/AI hardware.
- Preferred experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
- Self-motivated and proactive team player.
- Strong communication skills or interest in developing them.
- Strong problem-solving mindset with tolerance for uncertainty and change.
- Understands user needs and works collaboratively to address them.
- Adaptive and willing to learn new technologies with and from others.
- Comfortable tackling complex or ambiguous problems.
- Comfortable admitting when you don’t know, reaching out and leveraging the right expertise when needed.
- Experience working in self-organized teams.
- Familiarity with Agile methodology.
- Experience with test-driven development is a plus.
Benefits
- Opportunity to become part of ETH Zurich, supporting professional development and contributing to positive change in society.
- Numerous benefits, including public transport season tickets and car sharing.
- Wide range of sports offered by the ASVZ.
- Childcare and attractive pension benefits.
- Exciting working environment, cultural diversity, and attractive offers and benefits.
- Commitment to building a diverse and inclusive engineering team, with encouragement for applications from groups underrepresented in tech and women.
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