Principal Computational Engineer

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is hiring a Principal Computational Engineer to set technical strategy for its research computing organization, spanning high-performance computing, cloud infrastructure, and research software engineering. The role partners with scientists to design scalable systems for bioinformatics, genomics, and other data-intensive workflows, leads feasibility studies and implementations, and oversees security and performance monitoring for the group's platforms. Candidates need a master's degree in computer science, data science, or a related field (PhD preferred) and 8+ years building or maintaining scientific applications, with demonstrated project leadership and mentoring experience. Preferred qualifications include experience supporting research computing environments, bioinformatics or bioimaging pipelines, HPC schedulers (Slurm, LSF, Kubernetes), parallel programming (OpenMP, MPI), and Unix/Linux scripting.