About the role
AI summarisedThe HPC Training Specialist at NSCC will build and develop the HPC community in Singapore, designing and delivering training courses for the new Frontier supercomputer. This role involves curriculum design, hands-on workshops, framework development, community outreach, user support, and analysis to ensure proficient use of supercomputers across research domains.
ResearchFull-timeNational Supercomputing Centre
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with performance engineers and domain specialists to design tailored training courses that address user needs and system capabilities.
- Organize and conduct hands-on HPC workshops, teaching best practices for job submission, parallel programming, and system utilization.
- Work with local and international HPC centres to build an internationally recognized HPC education framework.
- Lead outreach activities to increase awareness and adoption of HPC in Singapore.
- Provide frontline HPC advice to users and develop self-help resources (guides, wikis, tutorials).
- Assist in analysing user proficiency gaps to refine training strategies.
Requirements
- Bachelor degree in computer science, Education, Engineering, or relevant area.
- At least 3 years of experience in technical training, HPC user support, or scientific research.
- Solid understanding of Linux environments, job schedulers, and shell scripting.
- Familiarity with HPC software stacks and parallel programming concepts (MPI/OpenMP/CUDA).
- Proficiency in Python; familiarity with C/C++ or Fortran is a plus.
- Knowledge of container technologies for reproducible research.
- Exceptional presentation and public speaking skills; ability to simplify complex technical concepts.
- Ability to create engaging training materials and hands-on exercises.
- A strong desire to help researchers succeed and build a collaborative community.