Why choose AstraZeneca India?
Help push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines to patients. After 45 years in India, we’re continuing to secure a future where everyone can access affordable, sustainable, innovative healthcare.
The part you play in our business will be challenging, yet rewarding, requiring you to use your resilient, collaborative and diplomatic skillsets to make connections. The majority of your work will be field based, and will require you to be highly-organised, planning your monthly schedule, attending meetings and calls, as well as writing up reports.
Who do we look for?
Calling all tech innovators, ownership takers, challenge seekers and proactive collaborators. At AstraZeneca, breakthroughs born in the lab become transformative medicine for the world's most complex diseases. We empower people like you to push the boundaries of science, challenge convention, and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. You'll embrace differences and take bold actions to drive the change needed to meet global healthcare and sustainability challenges.
Here, diverse minds and bold disruptors can meaningfully impact the future of healthcare using cutting-edge technology. Whether you join us in Bengaluru or Chennai, you can make a tangible impact within a global biopharmaceutical company that invests in your future. Join a talented global team that's powering AstraZeneca to better serve patients every day.
Success Profile
Ready to make an impact in your career? If you're passionate, growth-orientated and a true team player, we'll help you succeed. Here are some of the skills and capabilities we look for.
Tech innovators
Make a greater impact through our digitally enabled enterprise. Use your skills in data and technology to transform and optimise our operations, helping us deliver meaningful work that changes lives.
Ownership takers
If you're a self-aware self-starter who craves autonomy, AstraZeneca provides the perfect environment to take ownership and grow. Here, you'll feel empowered to lead and reach excellence at every level — with unrivalled support when you need it.
Challenge seekers
Adapting and advancing our progress means constantly challenging the status quo. In this dynamic environment where everything we do has urgency and focus, you'll have the ability to show up, speak up and confidently take smart risks.
Proactive collaborators
Your unique perspectives make our ambitions and capabilities possible. Our culture of sharing ideas, learning and improving together helps us consistently set the bar higher. As a proactive collaborator, you'll seek out ways to bring people together to achieve their best.
Responsibilities
Job Title:Lead Consultant - HPC Application Engineer
Career Level: E
Introduction to role
Join our dynamic Research Data & Analytics Team within R&D IT, a global group of skilled data and AI engineers dedicated to revolutionizing the way we discover and develop medicine. Our mission is to partner with scientific teams to deliver innovative capabilities, products, and platforms that accelerate the development of safe and effective medicines for patients.
Scientific Computing Platform
The Scientific Computing Platform (SCP) is a key component of our efforts, providing high-performance computing (HPC) solutions that support computational chemistry, imaging, multi-OMICs, structural biology, data science, and AI.
About the Platform
The SCP team provides the high-performance computing (HPC) platform and optimised applications on which scientists build their workflows. We are driven to accelerate scientific discovery, and achieve this through rapid deployment of applications, optimisation of complex workflows and application tuning for very large problems. An overarching principle is to maximise the impact of the team's support efforts.
We are seeking a passionate HPC engineer focussed on applications and research software engineering. The ideal candidate will have extensive hands-on experience making an impact with HPC technology, delivering HPC services to a high quality, and able to relate to the scientific community and work closely with users to make the best use of research computing services.
The HPC landscape is continually evolving. You will need the skills to help build, optimiseand operateindustry-leading capabilities, including application build frameworks, containerised applications and cloud software-as-a-service. Automated deployment is a key feature of your workand you will need to be comfortable with DevOps processes and delivering consistency through automation and infrastructure-as-code.A strong focus of the role will also be working directly with scientific users to help them optimise and productionise their code and make best use of the facility.
Accountabilities
As an HPC Application Engineer, you will be responsible for developing, delivering, and operating research computing services and applications. You will take a Site Reliability Engineering approach to manage the end-to-end development, deployment, monitoring, and incident response of HPC services. Your role will involve solving complex technical problems related to SCP applications and services, as well as assisting users in debugging and optimizing their workflows and applications. You will work closely with scientific users to help them optimize and productionize their code, ensuring they make the best use of our research computing services.
Essential Skills/Experience
Scientific application installation, optimisation and configuration
Effective use of HPC job schedulers such as SLURM
Experienced working in a Linux environment
Competent in multiple programming and scripting languages from the following list: python, R, Shell Scripts, C/C++, Golang, and deep expertise in at least one of them
Deep understanding of the factors influencing HPC application performance
Highly customer focused; able to explain IT technical concepts in a manner which non-IT experts can understand
Desirable Skills/Experience
Scientific degree, and/or experience in computationally intensive analysis of scientific data
Previous experience in high performance computing (HPC) environments, especially at large scales (>10,000 cores)
Experience with high performance parallel filesystems at petabyte scale, e.g. GPFS, Lustre
Hands-on knowledge of a range of scientific and HPC applications such as simulation software, bioinformatics tools or 3D data visualisation packages
Experience with software build frameworks such as Easybuild or Spack
Expertise in GPU, AI/ML tools and frameworks (CUDA, TensorFlow, PyTorch)
Strong understanding of parallel programming techniques (e.g. MPI, pthreads, OpenMP) and code profiling/optimisation
Experience with workflow engines (e.g. Apache Airflow, Nextflow, Cromwell, AWS StepFunctions)
Familiarity with container runtimes such as Docker, Singularity or enroot
Expertise in specific scientific domains relevant to early drug development, such as deep learning, medical imaging, molecular dynamics or 'omics.
Experience with frameworks for regression tests and benchmarks for HPC applications, like Reframe HPC
Experience with working in GxP-validated environments
Experience administering and optimising a HPC job scheduler (e.g. SLURM)
Experience with configuration automation and infrastructure as code (e.g. Ansible, Hashicorp Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon Cloud Developer Kit)
Experience deploying infrastructure and code to public cloud, especially AWS
Hands-on experience working in a DevOps team and using agile methodologies
At AstraZeneca, we demonstrate technology to impact patients' lives directly by transforming our ability to develop life-changing medicines. We empower our teams to perform at their peak by combining cutting-edge science with leading digital technology platforms and data. Our dynamic environment encourages innovation and ownership, providing countless opportunities to learn and grow. Join us in our mission to reinvent the industry and make a meaningful impact on the world.
Ready to make a difference? Apply now!
AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.
Reasons to Join
Thomas Mathisen
There are many things I enjoy when working at AstraZeneca, mainly the Speak up culture, the great colleagues that are in my teams, the great products that AstraZeneca provides to our patients and the challenging conversations I have around our medicines.
Christine Recchio
Working at AstraZeneca has impacted my life in such a positive way. I now have an improved work-life balance through creating my own schedule and time management, I feel a balance that I didn’t have before.
Stephanie Ling
There are a lot of reasons why I enjoy working in AstraZeneca, my colleagues being one of them. My team members and the managers have provided a great deal of guidance in helping me to be more confident in my daily work.
What we offer
We're driven by our shared values of serving people, society and the planet. Our people make this possible, which is why we prioritise diversity, safety, empowerment and collaboration. Discover what a career at AstraZeneca could mean for you.
Lifelong learning
Our development opportunities are second to none. You'll have the chance to grow your abilities, skills and knowledge constantly as you accelerate your career. From leadership projects and constructive coaching to overseas talent exchanges and global collaboration programmes, you'll never stand still.
Autonomy and reward
Experience the power of shaping your career how you want to. We are a high-performing learning organisation with autonomy over how we learn. Make big decisions, learn from your mistakes and continue growing — with performance-based rewards as part of the package.
Health and wellbeing
An energised work environment is only possible when our people have a healthy work-life balance and are supported for their individual needs. That's why we have a dedicated team to ensure your physical, financial and psychological wellbeing is a top priority.
Inclusion and diversity
Diversity and inclusion are embedded in everything we do. We're at our best and most creative when drawing on our different views, experiences and strengths. That's why we're committed to creating a workplace where everyone can thrive in a culture of respect, collaboration and innovation.
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