High Performance Computing Engineer

About the Department

Our Research & Development organization brings together the best minds in life science innovation. The teams located in facilities in Lexington, Watertown, Cambridge and Plainsboro reflect the full R&D continuum, from early research through late-stage clinical development. Here, we are building for the future, creating a distinct R&D community based on collaboration, partnerships, and cutting-edge research across multiple modalities and therapeutic areas. We recognize that improving human health starts here and that patients rely on us. Our R&D hub merges biotech speed and agility with large pharmaceutical company quality, resources, and stability, uniting the best of both worlds to develop new medicines for patients.

The Position

The High Performance Computing (Operation) Engineer will be responsible for collaborating with our scientific users to enable the best use of our HPC platforms. Our scientific users are situated globally, and this position will be working in an international environment with team members around the globe. The position is a user-facing role - close collaboration with scientific users of HPC to understand their needs and to provide guidance. AI Foundation/Advanced Computational Infrastructure (ACI) supports the strategic digital transformation needed to realize the Novo Nordisk strategy. The HCP Engineer will be responsible for developing, implementing, operating, maintaining, and supporting the storage-, middleware - and IT infrastructure used by all units across Novo Nordisk on-premises and in the cloud.

Relationships

This position reports to: The head of Advanced Computational Infrastructure in Enterprise AI. Daily contact with IT project groups as a member or as supporting specialist; and will also be required to work closely with other IT units that provide underlying and integrated enterprise infrastructure (e.g. Enterprise Infrastructure & Information Security).

Essential Functions

• Maintain a strong collaboration with data scientists and research scientists to optimize their workflows and code and resolve their issues and requests
• Responsible for building, testing, and deploying the solution CDK pipeline for new releases; maintain the specification and operations documentation
• Ensure the operations, maintenance and support model is functioning seamlessly and continuously improved
• Proactively keep the solutions highly stable, available, and performing to expectations, which includes optimization of our system and user activity monitoring and alerts, and our devops in general
• Understand the researchers’ and data scientists’ needs and based on these raise proposals for technical/functional changes and additions
• Drive user training, expand the user guidance material and promote the HPC user community interaction
• Responsible for building new features, as well as handling change requests

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 4+ years of experience or Master's degree and 2+ years of experience
• Hands-on and work with new technologies and able to quickly learn new concepts
• Team-oriented with a strong personal drive to achieve goals and service-minded and thrive in a busy environment
• Experience with and deep knowledge of Linux systems
• A good understanding and preferably experience with DevOps principles such as automation, infrastructure/configuration as code, CI/CD amongst others
• Preferably, experience with scientific software, such as R, Python, MATLAB, Mathematics
• Experience in working within the HPC field
• Experience with AWS, preferably Parallel Cluster
• Experience from agile project work and direct end-user interaction is preferred
• Customer minded problem-solving mindset with a keen interest in identifying and problem solve how to best enable and increase science and operational performance through IT
• Knowledge or interest in the following:
  • IaC through GitHub
  • Generative AI and other related machine learning technologies from e.g., NVIDIA
  • Ansible, Slurm, on premise HPC cluster solutions, Run.ai, CEPH, Lustre, WEKA and Qumulo storage
  • Virtualization and Container orchestration
  • Parallel programming and MPI

The base compensation range for this position is $99,600 to $184,200. Base compensation is determined based on a number of factors. This position is also eligible for a company bonus based on individual and company performance. 

Novo Nordisk offers long-term incentive compensation and or company vehicles depending on the position's level or other company factors. 

Employees are also eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs including medical, dental and vision coverage; life insurance; disability insurance; 401(k) savings plan; flexible spending accounts; employee assistance program; tuition reimbursement program; and voluntary benefits such as group legal, critical illness, identity theft protection, pet insurance and auto/home insurance. The Company also offers time off pursuant to its sick time policy, flex-able vacation policy, and parental leave policy.

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

At Novo Nordisk, we're not chasing quick fixes – we're creating lasting change for long-term health. For over 100 years, we've been driven by a single purpose: to defeat serious chronic diseases and help millions of people live healthier lives. This dedication fuels our constant curiosity and inspires us to push the boundaries of what's possible in healthcare. We embrace diverse perspectives, seek out bold ideas, and build partnerships rooted in shared purpose. Together, we're making healthcare more accessible, treating and defeating diseases, and pioneering solutions that create change spanning generations. When you join us, you become part of something bigger – a legacy of impact that reaches far beyond today.

Novo Nordisk is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal laws, rules or regulations.

If you are interested in applying to Novo Nordisk and need special assistance or an accommodation to apply, please call us at 1-855-411-5290. This contact is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.