ITS Research Platforms Engineer

Job Title

ITS Research Platforms Engineer

Job Description

Help power some of the most important medical research happening in Australia. We’re looking for a Research Platforms Engineer to join our small, friendly team and keep WEHI’s high-performance computing environment humming — the platform behind discoveries in cancer, immunology, structural biology, genomics, imaging and, increasingly, AI.

The platform you’ll look after

Our HPC environment — known as Milton — is a serious bit of kit, and our researchers lean on it every day:

• Thousands of CPU cores and a fleet of GPUs running everything from CryoEM and AlphaFold to large-scale genomics and AI.

• Multi-petabyte storage across high-performance flash (VAST), managed disk filesystems (Quantum StorNext) and tape, holding billions of research files.

• A rich scientific software stack — SLURM job scheduling, hundreds of environment modules, cont...