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HPC Engineer roles in the U.S. qualify as specialty occupations under the E-3 visa, making Australian nationals eligible for sponsorship without entering the H-1B lottery. Employers file a Labor Condition Application before your consulate appointment, and the visa renews in two-year increments with no cap on total renewals.
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About AbbVie
AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.
Job Description
AbbVie Information Research (IR) Scientific and Cloud Computing team is seeking a highly motivated High Performance Computing (HPC) Architect to provide technical leadership for scientific and R&D computing environments. This role is responsible for architecting and evolving on-premises, cloud, and hybrid HPC platforms, including compute, GPU, networking, storage, workload management, containers, automation, security, and scientific software services. The successful candidate will have strong hands-on experience with HPC infrastructure, AWS, and hybrid cloud environments, Slurm, infrastructure as code, automation, DevOps practices, and enterprise IT operations. The HPC Architect will guide the design, implementation, lifecycle management, and support of secure, scalable, reliable, and cost-effective solutions while partnering with R&D stakeholders and fostering collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the technical architect for AbbVie IR’s on-premises, cloud, and hybrid HPC based scientific-computing environments. Responsible for architecture, standards, infrastructure (software and hardware) lifecycle, evaluation of POC, capacity planning, and cost management.
- Architect and continuously evolve all aspects of scientific HPC computing platforms, including operational and maintenance processes.
- Design, implement, and support HPC compute and networking infrastructure - compute, networking, and storage.
- Administer and optimize Slurm workload management, including partitions, queues, priorities, fair-share, reservations, resource limits, GPU scheduling, accounting, job troubleshooting, performance tuning, and integration with Posit and other research platforms.
- Establish secure, reproducible container and scientific software environments using Apptainer/Singularity, Docker-compatible workflows, environment modules, compilers, MPI, CUDA, Python, R, and application dependencies.
- Assist with the architecture and support of Posit Workbench, Posit Connect, Posit Package Manager, and related analytics platforms, integrating them with Slurm, Active Directory, storage, GPUs, and scientific software.
- Implement secure identity and access management in accordance with AbbVie security SOPs and applicable industry standards. Architect, implement, and support vulnerability-management processes and remediation efforts.
- Lead efforts to automate provisioning, configuration, patching, testing, monitoring, remediation, and lifecycle activities.
- Maintain observability metrics, architecture diagrams, inventories, dependency maps, configuration standards, runbooks, support procedures, and end-of-life plans while addressing technical debt, operational risks, and capacity constraints. Lead the development of appropriate reporting and monitoring tools and dashboards.
- Lead design and incident reviews, vendor engagements, proofs of concept, capacity planning, and implementation governance; provide technical direction and mentorship to engineering and partner teams.
- Partner with R&D to create appropriate solutions for research workloads.
Qualifications Required:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field with 7 years of experience; OR Master’s Degree with 6 years of experience; OR PhD 2 years’ experience.
- Respective years of experience in application program development.
- Leadership experience is required, including the ability to guide, collaborate with and influence technical teams, projects, and workstreams both within and outside the organizational structure. Demonstrated ability to balance technical depth with people leadership and stakeholder management.
- Expert knowledge of Linux, HPC compute and GPU architectures, CPU/memory/NUMA/PCIe design, MPI, NVIDIA GPUs, CUDA, MIG, node provisioning, firmware, drivers, and hardware lifecycle management.
- Strong experience with Slurm, including partitions, queues, scheduling policies, resource management, GPU scheduling, accounting, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
- Strong knowledge of HPC networking, including Mellanox/NVIDIA InfiniBand, RDMA, Aruba switching, Ethernet, VLANs, routing, segmentation, subnet management, monitoring, and low-latency communications.
- Experience with high-performance and distributed storage, including Weka or comparable platforms, Lustre, NFS, CIFS/SMB, storage gateways, quotas, permissions, data movement, replication, backup, archival, and recovery.
- Experience integrating Active Directory or equivalent identity services with SSH, SSSD, sudo, service accounts, security groups, filesystem permissions, and least-privilege access models.
- Experience with Apptainer/Singularity, Docker-compatible workflows, container security, reproducibility, GPU/MPI enablement, image management, and scientific software environments using modules, compilers, Python, R, CUDA, and related dependencies.
- Experience supporting interactive research platforms such as Posit Workbench, Posit Connect, Jupyter, or comparable tools, including integration with Slurm, GPUs, identity services, storage, and software environments.
- Experience architecting cloud and hybrid HPC solutions, including networking, security, identity, provisioning, storage, autoscaling, infrastructure as code, workload placement, cost management, monitoring, and lifecycle operations.
- Strong scripting, automation, and DevOps skills.
- Knowledge of observability, centralized logging, alerting, incident response, root-cause analysis, capacity planning, performance engineering, cybersecurity, vulnerability management, encryption, patching, and access governance.
- Experience creating architecture diagrams, technical standards, operating models, runbooks, migration plans, lifecycle strategies, and executive-level recommendations.
- Experience working in Data Science, Life Sciences, or Pharmaceutical industry working in regulated or enterprise IT environments.
Preferred:
- Work experience in the pharmaceutical industry preferred.
Additional Information
Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:
- The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
- We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
- This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.
AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
US & Puerto Rico only - to learn more, visit https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html
US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation, click here to learn more:
https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/reasonable-accommodations.html
Company Description
About AbbVie
AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.
Job Description
AbbVie Information Research (IR) Scientific and Cloud Computing team is seeking a highly motivated High Performance Computing (HPC) Architect to provide technical leadership for scientific and R&D computing environments. This role is responsible for architecting and evolving on-premises, cloud, and hybrid HPC platforms, including compute, GPU, networking, storage, workload management, containers, automation, security, and scientific software services. The successful candidate will have strong hands-on experience with HPC infrastructure, AWS, and hybrid cloud environments, Slurm, infrastructure as code, automation, DevOps practices, and enterprise IT operations. The HPC Architect will guide the design, implementation, lifecycle management, and support of secure, scalable, reliable, and cost-effective solutions while partnering with R&D stakeholders and fostering collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the technical architect for AbbVie IR’s on-premises, cloud, and hybrid HPC based scientific-computing environments. Responsible for architecture, standards, infrastructure (software and hardware) lifecycle, evaluation of POC, capacity planning, and cost management.
- Architect and continuously evolve all aspects of scientific HPC computing platforms, including operational and maintenance processes.
- Design, implement, and support HPC compute and networking infrastructure - compute, networking, and storage.
- Administer and optimize Slurm workload management, including partitions, queues, priorities, fair-share, reservations, resource limits, GPU scheduling, accounting, job troubleshooting, performance tuning, and integration with Posit and other research platforms.
- Establish secure, reproducible container and scientific software environments using Apptainer/Singularity, Docker-compatible workflows, environment modules, compilers, MPI, CUDA, Python, R, and application dependencies.
- Assist with the architecture and support of Posit Workbench, Posit Connect, Posit Package Manager, and related analytics platforms, integrating them with Slurm, Active Directory, storage, GPUs, and scientific software.
- Implement secure identity and access management in accordance with AbbVie security SOPs and applicable industry standards. Architect, implement, and support vulnerability-management processes and remediation efforts.
- Lead efforts to automate provisioning, configuration, patching, testing, monitoring, remediation, and lifecycle activities.
- Maintain observability metrics, architecture diagrams, inventories, dependency maps, configuration standards, runbooks, support procedures, and end-of-life plans while addressing technical debt, operational risks, and capacity constraints. Lead the development of appropriate reporting and monitoring tools and dashboards.
- Lead design and incident reviews, vendor engagements, proofs of concept, capacity planning, and implementation governance; provide technical direction and mentorship to engineering and partner teams.
- Partner with R&D to create appropriate solutions for research workloads.
Qualifications Required:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field with 7 years of experience; OR Master’s Degree with 6 years of experience; OR PhD 2 years’ experience.
- Respective years of experience in application program development.
- Leadership experience is required, including the ability to guide, collaborate with and influence technical teams, projects, and workstreams both within and outside the organizational structure. Demonstrated ability to balance technical depth with people leadership and stakeholder management.
- Expert knowledge of Linux, HPC compute and GPU architectures, CPU/memory/NUMA/PCIe design, MPI, NVIDIA GPUs, CUDA, MIG, node provisioning, firmware, drivers, and hardware lifecycle management.
- Strong experience with Slurm, including partitions, queues, scheduling policies, resource management, GPU scheduling, accounting, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
- Strong knowledge of HPC networking, including Mellanox/NVIDIA InfiniBand, RDMA, Aruba switching, Ethernet, VLANs, routing, segmentation, subnet management, monitoring, and low-latency communications.
- Experience with high-performance and distributed storage, including Weka or comparable platforms, Lustre, NFS, CIFS/SMB, storage gateways, quotas, permissions, data movement, replication, backup, archival, and recovery.
- Experience integrating Active Directory or equivalent identity services with SSH, SSSD, sudo, service accounts, security groups, filesystem permissions, and least-privilege access models.
- Experience with Apptainer/Singularity, Docker-compatible workflows, container security, reproducibility, GPU/MPI enablement, image management, and scientific software environments using modules, compilers, Python, R, CUDA, and related dependencies.
- Experience supporting interactive research platforms such as Posit Workbench, Posit Connect, Jupyter, or comparable tools, including integration with Slurm, GPUs, identity services, storage, and software environments.
- Experience architecting cloud and hybrid HPC solutions, including networking, security, identity, provisioning, storage, autoscaling, infrastructure as code, workload placement, cost management, monitoring, and lifecycle operations.
- Strong scripting, automation, and DevOps skills.
- Knowledge of observability, centralized logging, alerting, incident response, root-cause analysis, capacity planning, performance engineering, cybersecurity, vulnerability management, encryption, patching, and access governance.
- Experience creating architecture diagrams, technical standards, operating models, runbooks, migration plans, lifecycle strategies, and executive-level recommendations.
- Experience working in Data Science, Life Sciences, or Pharmaceutical industry working in regulated or enterprise IT environments.
Preferred:
- Work experience in the pharmaceutical industry preferred.
Additional Information
Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:
- The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
- We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
- This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.
AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
US & Puerto Rico only - to learn more, visit https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html
US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation, click here to learn more:
https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/reasonable-accommodations.html
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Translate your HPC credentials for U.S. employers
Australian three-year bachelor's degrees in computer science or engineering are accepted as equivalent to U.S. four-year degrees for E-3 visa specialty occupation purposes. Gather official transcripts and a credential evaluation letter before outreach to remove any employer hesitation upfront.
Target national labs and cloud infrastructure teams
HPC sponsorship is concentrated in national laboratory contractors, hyperscaler infrastructure groups, and computational research divisions at universities. These employers run recurring HPC headcount and have existing E-3 workflows, reducing the internal approval friction you'd face at smaller firms.
Search E-3 sponsored HPC roles through Migrate Mate
Use Migrate Mate to filter HPC Engineer openings by E-3 sponsorship availability. The platform surfaces roles where employers have already indicated willingness to sponsor, saving you from screening dozens of listings that exclude visa candidates.
Confirm the LCA covers your actual work location
If your HPC role involves on-site work at a data center or national lab campus different from your employer's headquarters, the Labor Condition Application must list that specific worksite. Flag this with your employer before the DOL filing to avoid a mismatch that could delay your visa.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service for LCA and consulate paperwork
The LCA filing, DS-160 completion, and consulate document package all have interdependencies that create errors when handled piecemeal. Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service manages the entire process from offer letter to consulate appointment, coordinating each step in the correct sequence.
Prepare for specialty occupation questions at the consulate
Consular officers occasionally question whether HPC Engineer roles require a specific degree rather than general IT experience. Bring a detailed offer letter that ties your parallel computing, interconnect architecture, or performance optimization responsibilities directly to your engineering or computer science degree field.
E-3 Visa Hpc Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find HPC Engineer jobs that offer E-3 visa sponsorship?
Use Migrate Mate to search HPC Engineer roles filtered specifically for E-3 sponsorship. Most general job boards don't distinguish between H-1B and E-3 willing employers, so you end up cold-filtering manually. Migrate Mate surfaces roles where employers have already indicated they'll sponsor Australian nationals, which cuts out most of that screening work.
How much does it cost to get an E-3 visa?
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does an HPC Engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation for the E-3 visa?
Yes. HPC Engineer positions require at least a bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a closely related field, which meets the specialty occupation definition USCIS applies to E-3 petitions. Roles focused on parallel computing architecture, job scheduler optimization, or interconnect performance routinely clear this threshold. Where you need to be careful is if the job description is written broadly enough that any IT background would qualify, which can undermine the specialty occupation argument at the consulate.
How does the E-3 visa compare to the H-1B for HPC Engineers?
The E-3 has no annual lottery, so you can start work as soon as your consulate appointment clears rather than waiting for an October 1 start date. It renews indefinitely in two-year increments as long as you maintain qualifying employment. The trade-off is exclusivity: only Australian citizens can use it. H-1B has a broader cap of 85,000 per year but requires surviving a lottery with roughly a one-in-four selection rate for most applicants.
What happens to my E-3 status if I change HPC roles or employers?
The E-3 is employer-specific, so changing employers requires your new employer to file a fresh Labor Condition Application with the DOL and you to obtain a new E-3 visa stamp, typically at an Australian consulate. There's no portability provision like the one H-1B holders have after 180 days. Plan your transition timeline so your new LCA is certified before your current status expires to avoid any gap in work authorization.