Amazon · 3 months ago
HPC SA Specialist, Global Energy
Houston, Texas, USA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$154K/yr - $208K/yrAmazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a HPC Specialist Architect for the Energy & Utilities Business Unit, who will be a subject matter expert helping customers design solutions that leverage our HPC services. The role involves interacting with customers to implement HPC solutions, creating enablement materials, and providing feedback to product teams.
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Responsibilities
Customer Advisor- You will interact closely with our customers Implement and deploy state of the art HPC solutions. You will build prototypes, PoCs, and explore new solutions
Thought Leadership – Evangelize AWS HPC services and share best practices through forums such as AWS blogs, white-papers, reference architectures and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit, AWS re:Invent, etc
Create field enablement materials for the broader SA population, to help them understand how to integrate HPC solutions into customer architectures
Act as a technical liaison between customers and the AWS product teams to provide customer driven product improvement feedback
Generally, travel up to 25% could be included and will be discussed at the interview stage
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
Development experience with HPC frameworks for workloads in a domain such as oil and gas, automotive / aerospace, financial services or pharmaceuticals. Proficient in one or more of the following programming languages: C++, Python, Cuda, or Bash
Experience in architecting an HPC platform with scheduling middleware (e.g. Slurm, Torque, Symphony or GridServer) and in deployment, tuning and management of HPC technologies in a multi-user environment
High level understanding of the underlying infrastructure platform and resources to run HPC services
Ability and willingness to develop AWS technical proficiency within the first 6 months of employment
Preferred
Performance optimization experience with computationally intensive applications, particularly in oil and gas subsurface applications, reservoir simulation, and seismic data processing
Expertise in parallel programming models for both loosely and tightly coupled applications, including proficiency with MPI (OpenMPI, MPICH), OpenMP, and hybrid parallelization strategies, and GPU programming using CUDA, OpenACC, or similar technologies, with demonstrated ability to optimize applications for GPU architectures
Significant experience in infrastructure architecture and networking. Experience with infrastructure as code technology such as Cloud Formation, CDK or equivalent
AWS technical proficiency - have architected and implemented HPC solutions on AWS
Master's degree or higher in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, or experience in a professional field or military
Benefits
Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
401(k) matching
Paid time off
Parental leave
Company
Amazon
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Founded in 1994
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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$8.11BKey Investors
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