Staff Engineer High Performance Computing

Pfizer

Closes in 3 days Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
Thessaloniki Pylaia, Greece
Salary
$124,400–$207,400 / yr
Posted
8 days ago
Closes
Jun 19, 2026 (soon)

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Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $166k
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This role pays less than 77% of similar roles. Most pay $168,500–$235,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $166k versus about $202k for comparable roles.

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About Pfizer

Pfizer Inc. is one of the world''s largest biopharmaceutical companies, researching, developing, manufacturing, and marketing medicines and vaccines across multiple therapeutic areas including oncology, cardiology, and infectious diseases. Industry: Biopharmaceuticals

Pfizer currently has 34 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $124,400–$207,400 across 34 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Engineer High Performance Computing

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Pfizer seeks an experienced Cloud HPC Architect to lead the technical architecture of its cloud high-performance computing (HPC) platform, focusing on developing robust and scalable infrastructure for research and large-scale data processing. This role involves collaborating with stakeholders to establish long-term technical roadmaps, driving consensus among senior managers and engineers, and implementing best practices using tools like Terraform and CloudFormation. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of AWS or GCP, expertise in CI/CD, observability frameworks such as Prometheus and Grafana, and knowledge of Kubernetes for distributed computing environments. This position requires extensive experience in HPC cloud engineering, job schedulers, and cost optimization strategies to ensure high performance, reliability, and security across multiple cloud environments.

Skills

AWS GCP Terraform CloudFormation Kubernetes CI/CD Prometheus Grafana Docker Linux NVIDIA GPU EKS GKE ParallelCluster Google Cloud Cluster Toolkit PostgreSQL Redis MongoDB Ansible Jenkins

What you'll do

  • Lead the technical architecture and development of cloud-based HPC infrastructure for research and data processing.
  • Establish and enforce technical standards, best practices, and guidelines for reproducible HPC platform deployments.
  • Recommend and integrate cutting-edge technologies such as accelerators, storage solutions, and open-source toolkits into the HPC platform.
  • Drive adoption of IaC tools like Terraform and CloudFormation to automate infrastructure provisioning and scaling.
  • Design monitoring and alerting strategies to ensure high performance, reliability, and cost efficiency of cloud-based HPC services.

What we're looking for

  • 6+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure engineering with a focus on HPC.
  • Expert level experience with AWS and/or GCP core compute and storage services for HPC.
  • Proven track record of developing and supporting robust HPC frameworks in the cloud.
  • Deep understanding of modern CI/CD practices, observability, and monitoring for cloud-based HPC infrastructure.
  • Strong knowledge of distributed systems and production system reliability principles.

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