FAS Research Computing offers a unique environment for its staff to explore new technology, engage with world-class researchers and students, and work in a unique, exciting, cutting-edge Research/HPC environment. Faculty of Arts and Sciences RC provides not only high-performance computing and research support, but also training, engagement, continued learning, and special projects.
FASRC seeks a diverse team of highly-motivated and engaged personnel to make our mission a success and make our team a pleasure to work within. Come join us and enjoy the benefits of working for Harvard University in an exciting and ever-growing research computing group.
Department Description
Harvard University's Research Computing continues to evolve, expand services, and support to its leading research faculty and their collaborators around the world. These services include maintaining a Top 100 academic high-performance computing cluster, cloud computing, virtual machines, storage, databases, instrumentation core facility workstations, and other development platforms.
We directly engage with researchers through help requests, monitoring, office hours, training, and in-depth consultations. Research Computing has numerous other successful collaborations, including building the MGHPCC (http://www.mghpcc.org/) in Holyoke, MA with leading partner universities. It is with these and other institutions that we launched the NSF-funded NESE project (http://nese.mghpcc.org) which creates a regional data science repository, as well as the New England Research Cloud (http://nerc.mghpcc.org) which creates a collaborative on-prem regional cloud framework. Research Computing at Harvard has a track record of building partnerships to accelerate research and collaboration.
We are committed to cultivating not only the diversity of our faculty, staff, and students but also in developing an inclusive culture that is vibrant, engaging and encouraging of innovation as well as intellectual debate. We believe creating and maintaining an inclusive workplace allows employees from all backgrounds and walks of life to achieve their fullest potential. We also believe an inclusive culture is one that accepts, values and views as strength the difference we all bring to the workplace.
Current Staff Openings
66424BR Senior Research Computing Systems Software Engineer
This position will work within a team of RC Systems Engineers to design, implement, deploy, and maintain advanced monitoring, logging, and alerting systems for mission-critical services. The Systems Software Engineering group helps maintain core production infrastructure, provisioning, central version control, central logging, and other systems. This group offers many opportunities to build tools and patterns that help all of Research Computing work better. This is an individual contributor position that will report to the Associate Director of Systems Software Engineering in FAS Research Computing (FASRC).
65742BR - Senior Research Computing Systems Engineer
Reporting to the Associate Director of Operations and System Engineering and working within that FAS RC group, this position will contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of essential IT infrastructure, both for the entire research community as a whole and individual labs.
The Senior Research Computing Systems Engineer will also be involved in the operation and management of data centers and will interact with vendors and members of the Harvard research computing community. Responsibilities include but are not limited to investigation into and mitigation of compute system level problems, monitoring of system health, data center work, use of quality control techniques to keep service interruption to a minimum, and creative evaluation of client compute resources for appropriateness and efficiency. The position will be able to manage multiple projects, lead and train junior members of the group when necessary, and provide knowledge and support to the department.
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66073BR - Senior Research Computing Storage Engineer
Reporting to the Associate Director of Storage Services and collaborating closely with the storage group, this role is pivotal in the design, implementation, and upkeep of crucial storage services. As a senior member of the team, you will play a key role in understanding both present and future storage requirements for FAS Research Computing (RC) users. Your responsibilities will encompass grasping the intricacies of storage technology and collaborating with the team to deliver robust storage solutions at a production level. The role necessitates the ability to handle various projects concurrently, offer guidance and training to junior team members as needed, and extend knowledge and support to the department. Familiarity with the operations of a datacenter environment is essential, given Harvard FAS RC's management of on-premises services. Research Computing at Harvard is an enterprise that continues to reflect the University’s decentralized heritage, the evolution of research-computing infrastructure and funding opportunities, and the strategic development of its central information-technology organization, Harvard University Information Technology (HUIT) and its University Research Computing team.
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Current Part-Time/Term Openings
There are no current part-time/term openings
EEO Statement:
Harvard is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions, or any other characteristic protected by law.