Application Engineer

Job Title: HPC Application Engineer

Location: Gothenburg, Sweden - Hybrid: 2 Days to Office Every Week

Duration: 6 Months

Employment Type: Contract B2B

Roles & Responsibilities:

We are seeking an HPC Applications Engineer to support and optimize high-performance computing (HPC) research environments. The role focuses on managing HPC services, improving scientific workflows, and helping researchers optimize computational workloads.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, deploy, and operate research computing services and HPC applications
• Manage HPC platforms using Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues related to HPC applications and infrastructure
• Assist users with debugging, optimization, and performance tuning of scientific workloads
• Monitor, maintain, and improve HPC system reliability and performance

Required Skills

• Strong experience with Linux-based HPC environments
• Hands-on experience with HPC job schedulers (e.g., SLURM)
• Programming/scripting in Python, R, Shell, C/C++, or Golang
• Knowledge of HPC performance optimization and parallel computing
• Experience working with large-scale HPC systems

Preferred Experience

• Parallel programming (MPI, OpenMP, pthreads)
• HPC storage systems (Lustre, GPFS)
• GPU / AI / ML frameworks (CUDA, TensorFlow, PyTorch)
• Scientific computing tools (simulation, bioinformatics, or data visualization)
• Workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, Nextflow, Cromwell)
• Containers (Docker, Singularity, Enroot)
• Cloud & DevOps tools (AWS, Terraform, Ansible)