Assistant Director, High Performance Computing, Technical Services

The Position

• Lead the technical services team for the High-Performance Computing (HPC) platform
• Provide technical leadership on the HPC development with a focus on enabling AI-related R&D activities
• Manage the customer projects by formulating requirements and objectives, providing resource estimation, defining milestones, identifying risks, handling critical issues, and liaising with the business and IT teams
• Establish and implement best practices for the HPC technical operations
• Ensure a smooth and successful transition of the HPC project from the project development phase to the operational phase with comprehensive and up-to-date documentation and reliable maintenance related procedures, etc.
• Collaborate with the IT operation team to provide daily services and adhere to the SLA
• Conduct performance tuning and capacity management for the HPC platform
• Provide technical support and user training for scientific computing, especially in the domain of AI/ML
• Provide consultant services and pre-sales support to the business team
• Contribute to community engagement activities and develop showcases to demonstrate the use cases of the HPC platform
• Perform any othe duties as assigned by management

The Candidate

• A bachelor's degree in engineering, science, related disciplines or equivalent. Higher degree by research holders may have an advantage
• Minimum of 10 years of hands-on experience preferably in managing and supporting HPC Platforms
• Sound knowledge and experience in Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, Python, R, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning using HPC Platform highly preferred
• Strong understanding and hands-on experience with job management, cluster management and high-performance file systems
• Practical experience in designing and building HPC systems desirable
• Experience in setting up monitoring and optimization for HPC systems desirable
• Familiar with the Linux Operating System, including setup and configuration in a large-scale computing clusters/HPC environment
• Familiar with the Nvidia DGX platform and cluster management software will be an advantage
• Familiar with Kubernetes platform and able to set up monitoring, logging, and alerting for Kubernetes clusters
• Experience with setting up and performance tuning on both open-source and licensed HPC applications
• Knowledge in Large Language Models (LLM) and Prompt Engineering
• Strong experience in supporting various Research and Development Projects in large enterprises or universities
• Strong project and people management skills
• Experience in customer training and providing technical enabling services to clients
• Excellent in verbal and written English and Chinese (Cantonese and Putonghua)
• Personal attributes - independent, result-oriented, analytical, collaborative, multi-tasking and adaptive to a fast-paced environment
• Candidate with less experience will be considered for the position of Senior Manager

What We offer

• Unique Work.Live.Play.Learn culture in Hong Kong's largest Innovation & Technology ecosystem
• 5-day work week, attractive annual leave and additional special leave
• Medical benefits including dental and annual check-up from Day-1, with extended coverage to dependent(s)
• Professional training and career advancement opportunities
• Accessible to various bus service with network across different locations in HK

Interested parties please submit your application by clicking "Apply Now". Commencing position will be commensurate with qualifications, relevant experience, and competencies.

The application will remain open until the position is filled. HKSTP reserves the right not to fill the position.

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About Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks Corporation

Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) was established in 2001 to create a thriving I&T ecosystem grooming 13 unicorns, more than 15,000 research professionals and over 2,000 technology companies from 28 countries and regions focused on developing healthtech, AI and robotics, fintech and smart city technologies, etc.

More information about HKSTP is available at www.hkstp.org.