HPC Specialist Architect - Energy Industry (AWS)

HPC Specialist Architect - Energy Industry

AWS is looking for a HPC Specialist Architect for the Energy & Utilities Business Unit, who will be a subject matter expert helping customers design solutions that leverage our HPC services. You will work closely with customers in various geographies to enable large‑scale customer use cases and drive the adoption of AWS for HPC. You will interact with other Solutions Architects in the field, providing guidance on their customer engagements, and you will develop white papers, blogs, reference implementations, and presentations to enable customers and partners to fully leverage HPC services on AWS. You will also create field enablement materials for the broader AWS architect population to help them understand how to integrate AWS solutions into customer architectures. You drive effective feedback gathering from customers, and you distill and translate that feedback into clear business and technical requirements for product and engineering teams to review. You sponsor the creation of new products and features from these requirements, working closely with product and engineering teams to minimize requirements drift from your customer’s needs.

Key job responsibilities

• Customer Advisor – Interact closely with customers, implement and deploy state‑of‑the‑art HPC solutions, build prototypes, PoCs, and explore new solutions.
• Thought Leadership – Evangelize AWS HPC services and share best practices through blogs, white papers, reference architectures, and public‑speaking events such as AWS Summit and AWS re:Invent.
• Create field enablement materials for the broader Solutions Architect population to help them understand how to integrate HPC solutions into customer architectures.
• Act as a technical liaison between customers and AWS product teams to provide customer‑driven product improvement feedback.
• Must be willing to travel up to 25% as needed.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, or experience in a professional field or military.
• Development experience with HPC frameworks for workloads in domains such as oil and gas, automotive/aerospace, financial services or pharmaceuticals; proficiency in one or more of C++, Python, CUDA, or Bash.
• Experience in architecting an HPC platform with scheduling middleware (e.g., Slurm, Torque, Symphony or GridServer) and in deployment, tuning and management of HPC technologies in a multi‑user environment.
• High‑level understanding of the underlying infrastructure platform and resources to run HPC services; willingness to develop AWS technical proficiency within the first six months.
• Experience communicating across technical and non‑technical audiences, including executive‑level stakeholders or clients; ability to understand HPC user requirements and map these to solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Performance optimization experience with computationally intensive applications, particularly in oil and gas subsurface applications, reservoir simulation, and seismic data processing.
• Expertise in parallel programming models for both loosely and tightly coupled applications, including proficiency with MPI (OpenMPI, MPICH), OpenMP, and hybrid parallelization strategies; GPU programming using CUDA, OpenACC, or similar technologies, with demonstrated ability to optimize applications for GPU architectures.
• Significant experience in infrastructure architecture and networking; experience with infrastructure‑as‑code technology such as CloudFormation, CDK or equivalent.
• AWS technical proficiency – have architected and implemented HPC solutions on AWS.
• Master's degree or equivalent in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent.

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