Lead HPC Engineer - Machine Learning

Are you eager to take your High Performance Computing (HPC) specialist skills further? Do you want to help run state-of-the-art machine learning workloads? Are you ready to be the driving force behind the transformation of modern technologies that power our Research and Early Development (R&ED) units to conduct highly advanced scientific computing and analytics?

Do you enjoy building, maintaining, and enabling modern IT technologies both in the cloud, on-premises, and hybrid in an agile environment?

If yes, you might be the person we are looking for! 

Apply today for a life-changing career as a Lead HPC Engineer - Machine Learning at Novo Nordisk.

Be part of our digital transformation
You will become part of our HPC & Hybrid Cloud Engineering department located in Måløv, Denmark. The department currently consists of 17 engineers and is building up additional capabilities and capacity. The department is part of Digital Data & IT Research & Early Development, which consists of more than 195 skilled colleagues located in Måløv, Bangalore, Boston, Beijing, and Oxford.

We are responsible for major IT systems and projects in Novo Nordisk, as well as the scientific IT infrastructure in Research & Early Development. We take pride in being experts in IT infrastructure and platforms, and at the same time having experience and understanding of how our researchers use the platforms, data, and compute power we make available.

Your journey at Novo Nordisk

As our new HPC Engineer, you will be working in various Scrum and DevOps teams (5-10 members) with different projects and HPC products. Working in Scrum and DevOps teams means you will develop and build features. You will solve system issues, change requests, and perform maintenance in collaboration with our scientific users.

Our scientific users are situated globally, and you will be working in an international environment with colleagues around the globe. 

Key areas of responsibility:

• Understanding the scientific users’ needs and converting them into technical solutions focusing on how to structure these solution to achieve the required performance of the platforms
• Taking initiative in designing, building, and improving the platforms, and being at the forefront in the collaboration across stakeholders, including architects, product owners and researchers
• Making sure, in close collaboration with the team,  the operations and maintenance model, and the tools used are efficient and optimised
• Building a strong collaboration with data and research scientists whose work and processes are supported by our platforms

The skills we hope to see
We’re seeking a candidate with a high passion for working with HPC environments and having experience working with cloud and on-premises platforms. This is a perfect role for a person who is excited to be hands-on, work with new technologies and is able to quickly learn new concepts.

To be an ideal candidate, we imagine you have a degree with focus on IT systems engineering, computer science, scientific computing or similar combined with experience within the high performance computing or similar fields, e.g. with a system including Infiniband networking.

To thrive in this role, you also have previous experience with most of the following:

• Using Kubernetes, perhaps in the cloud or in an on-premise setting, and good knowledge of the inner workings of the system
• Slurm workloads, and the ability to create submission scripts, diagnose job failures and optimize jobs
• Hands-on experience with machine learning workloads with NVidia GPUS and associated technologies, such as NVLink, CUDA, NCCL, DCGM, RDMA; and additionally, familiarity with popular machine learning libraries such as PyTorch, and how these are run across multiple GPUs
• Experience working with large datasets and high performance storage like Weka and Lustre
• Extensive experience with cloud technologies, for instance AWS or Azure

Additionally, you have deep knowledge and understanding of the Linux operating system, and can use this to profile, performance tune, and debug workloads. You also have expertise in DevOps principles and configuration management such as automation, infrastructure/configuration as code, CI/CD amongst others.

We work with various tools and technologies, so it would be an advantage to have knowledge of the following: SLURM, CDK, Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD, Karpenter, Helm, GPU and network operators, MLFlow, Kubeflow, Spark, Flink.

As a person you are highly structured and organized, self-driven, proactive, and responsible. Furthermore, you are team-oriented and have a strong personal drive to achieve goals. We expect you to be service-minded and thrive in a busy environment. Finally, you have professional proficiency in written and spoken English to succeed in international stakeholders environment.

Join the Novo Nordisk family

Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company headquartered in Denmark. For 100 years, we have been driving change to defeat diabetes and other serious chronic diseases. As a result, our treatments today benefit millions of people living with diabetes, obesity, and rare blood and endocrine diseases. We are proud of that.

We are proud of our people too, and we employ more than 70,000 bright and diverse minds in 80 offices worldwide. With us, your bright mind and commitment help us change lives for people worldwide. In exchange, we offer you a seat in a rewarding and purpose-driven culture where your professional and personal development is highly valued. That said, opportunities are many in Novo Nordisk.

Every day, thousands of our digital experts work in all areas of technology. We navigate the tech spectrum from front-end to back-end, from artificial intelligence to machine learning, and from cloud systems to quantum computing. All to make a tangible impact on lives across the globe. How? Go explore at Novo Nordisk TechLife.

Contact

For additional information about the position, please contact Kaspar Lysgaard Dombrowsky, Head of Department, at [email protected].

Deadline

4 March 2025

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We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. 

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.