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INTRODUCTION
Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, business people, tech experts, researchers, and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit, we support patient care, research, teaching, and community service, striving to provide exceptional care. We believe that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite all applicants to join us and experience what it means to be part of Mass General Brigham.
Job Summary
Mass General Brigham Digital supports the clinical, operational, research, and academic missions through secure, reliable, and user-centered technology services. Digital Research Operations provides specialized platforms, infrastructure, and support services that enable investigators, research staff, trainees, and collaborators to conduct data-intensive biomedical research across Mass General Brigham.
Join our scientific computing team and help researchers unlock the potential of a new, world-class high-performance computing platform. By enabling researchers to move from idea to analysis, discovery, validation, and translation more efficiently, the platform supports larger and more complex datasets, more ambitious scientific questions, reproducible and collaborative science, and faster progress toward research findings that can ultimately improve care for our patients.
The Senior Manager, HPC Engineering leads the engineering, architecture, reliability, operations, technical roadmap, and ongoing evolution of our high-performance computing environment. This role is accountable for the technical health of the environment, including compute hardware, high-speed networking, storage, operating systems, configuration management, scientific software stacks, researcher-facing applications, automation, monitoring, incident response, and operational readiness.
The Senior Manager serves as the senior technical owner for HPC and partners closely with the Senior Manager, HPC Researcher Experience to ensure the environment is reliable, scalable, secure, well-documented, and aligned with current and future researcher needs. This includes maturing core services while advancing new capabilities such as data adjacency, enclave computing, advanced data movement, benchmarking, and emerging scientific computing workflows.
The role also manages the Managed Services partner relationship, setting operational expectations and ensuring effective day-to-day operations, vendor coordination, maintenance execution, incident response, escalation management, and continuous service improvement.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
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Own the technical strategy, operating model, reliability, and continuous improvement of the HPC platform, including compute, storage, networking, operating systems, configuration, software, automation, monitoring, and operational standards.
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Own the HPC platform architecture and technical roadmap, ensuring that compute, storage, networking, software, automation, security, data adjacency, enclave capabilities, and operational capabilities evolve to meet current and future research needs.
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Lead engineering activities for HPC hardware, GPU and CPU compute nodes, high-speed interconnects, storage systems, network connectivity, operating system images, firmware, drivers, configuration management, and platform lifecycle management.
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Own the scientific computing software environment, including schedulers, modules, containers, compilers, libraries, researcher applications, Open OnDemand, and other tools required to support data-intensive biomedical research workloads.
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Own workload management practices for the HPC environment, including scheduler configuration, queues, partitions, job policies, GPU and CPU allocation, fair-share models, utilization optimization, and performance tuning.
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Lead benchmarking and performance engineering practices, including workload profiling, bottleneck analysis, system tuning, baseline benchmark development, vendor performance validation, and evaluation of emerging technologies to improve platform performance and researcher productivity.
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Lead capacity planning and platform lifecycle planning, including utilization forecasting, hardware refresh planning, storage growth analysis, procurement input, and recommendations for future platform investments.
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Own change, release, and configuration management practices for the HPC platform, ensuring that system updates, software deployments, security patches, configuration changes, and maintenance activities are planned, tested, documented, and communicated.
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Establish engineering practices for platform resilience and operational continuity, including backup and recovery coordination, maintenance planning, runbooks, recovery procedures, change controls, and incident readiness.
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Develop and mature automation for user provisioning, storage provisioning, access controls, environment configuration, software deployment, monitoring, alerting, reporting, and routine operational tasks.
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Oversee data movement and workflow integration capabilities, including Globus, data transfer services, connectivity to storage platforms, integration with research data workflows, and coordination with cloud, storage, data adjacency, enclave, and institutional data services.
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Manage the Managed Services partner relationship, including operational expectations, service quality, incident coordination, vendor coordination, maintenance planning, escalation management, performance review, and continuous improvement.
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Serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex HPC platform issues, coordinating troubleshooting, root cause analysis, remediation, communications, and follow-up actions across internal teams, managed services partners, and vendors.
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Partner with the Senior Manager, HPC Researcher Experience to translate researcher needs, support trends, usage patterns, and service feedback into platform improvements, roadmap priorities, documentation updates, and operational changes.
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Establish and track platform health measures, including availability, performance, capacity, utilization, incident trends, storage growth, software demand, automation effectiveness, and risks to reliability or scalability.
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Partner with security, compliance, identity, networking, infrastructure, storage, cloud, and vendor teams to ensure the HPC platform aligns with organizational standards for security, privacy, access management, resilience, and risk management.
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Partner with security and compliance teams to mature HPC security engineering practices, including vulnerability management, patching, access controls, audit logging, identity integration, secure configuration, and risk remediation.
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Lead, coach, and develop engineering staff, consultants, managed services contributors, and other technical partners, setting clear expectations for reliability, documentation, operational discipline, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
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Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Essential Functions
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Direct responsibility for the development, prototyping and delivery of applications, including roadmaps, for applications in the assigned domain.
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Develop new and expand existing frameworks, approaches, and techniques to advance the development of platforms.
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Effectively manage the development backlog and roadmap for digital platforms.
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Lead continuous service improvement and ongoing process maturity through regular reviews of the process and tools, trend analysis and metrics reporting and through regular engagement with stakeholders.
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Lead, recruit and develop a team(s) of software engineers, release managers and other team members.
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Provide direction and goal setting on platform strategy and development operations.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, computational science, biomedical informatics, or a related field required; advanced degree preferred.
- Equivalent experience may be accepted in lieu of a degree.
Experience
- 8+ years of related technical experience in platform development years required.
- 2+ years of leadership experience in engineering required.
- Strong working knowledge of HPC architecture, Linux operating systems, schedulers, high-speed networking, parallel file systems, storage platforms, GPUs, CPUs, drivers, firmware, configuration management, monitoring, automation, data movement, data adjacency, enclave capabilities, and secure multi-user computing environments.
- Experience supporting scientific software environments, including schedulers, modules, containers, compilers, MPI libraries, GPU software stacks, Open OnDemand, Globus or other data transfer tools, researcher applications, and software lifecycle practices in multi-user scientific computing environments.
- Experience managing managed services providers, vendors, consultants, service-level expectations, incident coordination, maintenance planning, performance reviews, and escalations in complex technical environments.
- Demonstrated ability to lead platform operations, improve reliability, manage incidents, analyze root causes, plan capacity, reduce operational risk, and mature engineering practices using metrics and operational data.
- Knowledge of security, HIPAA and privacy principles, compliance, identity and access management, and risk management practices relevant to healthcare or academic research environments preferred.
- Familiarity within an Agile/SCRUM process.
Working Model:
- 1-4 days per week onsite at Assembly Row in Somerville, MA, with an average of at least four days on-site per month.
- A quiet, secure, compliant workspace is required for remote workdays, and will be viewed and confirmed via Microsoft Teams Video on day 1 for all remote and/or hybrid hires.
- MGB will ensure that candidates have a HIPAA-compliant workspace.
Additional Job Details (if applicable)
Remote Type
Hybrid
Work Location
399 Revolution Drive
Scheduled Weekly Hours
40
Employee Type
Regular
Work Shift
Day (United States of America)
Pay Range
$117,707.20 - $171,204.80/Annual
Grade
8
At Mass General Brigham, we believe in recognizing and rewarding the unique value each team member brings to our organization. Our approach to determining base pay is comprehensive, and any offer extended will take into account your skills, relevant experience if applicable, education, certifications and other essential factors. The base pay information provided offers an estimate based on the minimum job qualifications; however, it does not encompass all elements contributing to your total compensation package. In addition to competitive base pay, we offer comprehensive benefits, career advancement opportunities, differentials, premiums and bonuses as applicable and recognition programs designed to celebrate your contributions and support your professional growth. We invite you to apply, and our Talent Acquisition team will provide an overview of your potential compensation and benefits package.
EEO Statement:
Mass General Brigham Incorporated is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law. We will ensure that all individuals with a disability are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. To ensure reasonable accommodation for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veteran’s Readjustment Act of 1974, and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants who require accommodation in the job application process may contact Human Resources at (857)-282-7642.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as a Hpc Engineer
Document your parallel computing credentials early
Gather transcripts, publications, and project portfolios that demonstrate proficiency in MPI, OpenMP, or GPU programming before applying. USCIS scrutinizes whether your degree field directly maps to the HPC role's minimum requirements during PERM adjudication.
Target employers with active PERM filing history
National laboratories, defense contractors, and research-intensive universities file PERM for HPC roles far more consistently than commercial startups. Searching DOL disclosure data lets you verify which organizations have certified similar positions recently.
Use Migrate Mate to filter sponsoring employers
Search Migrate Mate's job board to find HPC engineer openings at companies with confirmed green card sponsorship history, saving you from applying to employers who have no PERM infrastructure in place for this occupation.
Negotiate job duties before the PERM audit begins
The job description locked into the PERM application defines your role permanently. Get the employer's HR team to align posted duties with your actual work in high-performance computing before DOL's supervised recruitment period starts, since changes after filing can restart the process.
Verify the prevailing wage tier for your HPC specialization
HPC engineering spans wage levels I through IV under DOL classification. Run your specific job title and worksite location through the OFLC Wage Search to confirm which level applies, because misclassification is a common PERM denial trigger for technical roles.
Understand EB-2 versus EB-3 routing before accepting an offer
If your role requires a master's degree in computer science or engineering, ask the employer to file under EB-2, which can shorten your wait if you're from a country without a significant backlog. EB-3 is valid but carries different priority date timelines.
Green Card Hpc Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Do HPC engineer roles typically qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship?
Most HPC engineer positions qualify for EB-2 when the employer requires a master's degree or equivalent in computer science, electrical engineering, or a closely related field. Roles requiring only a bachelor's degree route through EB-3 as skilled workers. The PERM labor certification must reflect the actual minimum requirement the employer enforces, not an inflated credential, so the job description wording matters significantly for which category you land in.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for HPC engineers?
H-1B visa is temporary, subject to an annual lottery, and must be renewed every three years. PERM-based green card sponsorship leads to permanent residency with no lottery and no renewal cycle once approved. The tradeoff is timeline: PERM labor certification alone takes several months, followed by the I-140 and adjustment of status stages. For HPC engineers from countries without major backlogs, the total process often runs two to four years, but the outcome is permanent status rather than continued visa dependency.
What does the PERM process look like for an HPC engineer position?
Your employer files the PERM application with DOL after completing a supervised recruitment period to demonstrate no qualified U.S. workers are available for the role. DOL then certifies or audits the application. After certification, the employer files the I-140 immigrant petition with USCIS on your behalf. Once that is approved and a visa number is available based on your priority date and country of birth, you file for adjustment of status or go through consular processing to receive your green card.
How can I find HPC engineer jobs that offer green card sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for this search. You can filter for HPC engineer roles at employers with verified green card sponsorship history, which removes the guesswork of approaching companies that have never filed PERM. National labs, defense contractors, and research universities appear frequently in these results because they sponsor PERM for technical computing roles on a regular basis.
Can I use O*NET data to strengthen my PERM application as an HPC engineer?
O*NET profiles the HPC engineer occupation with standardized task descriptions, required knowledge areas, and typical education levels. Employers and immigration attorneys often reference O*NET when drafting the PERM job description to ensure the duties align with DOL's occupational classification. Reviewing the O*NET profile yourself lets you flag any mismatch between your actual responsibilities and what the employer plans to file, which is a practical way to catch problems before the application is submitted.