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How much do python phd hpc jobs pay per year?

As of May 30, 2026, the average yearly pay for python phd hpc in Homewood, IL is $134,829.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $106,400.00 and $158,500.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a Python PhD HPC (High Performance Computing) specialist, and why are they important?

To excel as a Python PhD HPC specialist, you need advanced knowledge of Python programming, parallel computing concepts, and a doctoral degree in a computationally intensive field. Familiarity with HPC clusters, job schedulers like SLURM, and libraries such as NumPy, SciPy, and MPI for Python is typically required. Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration skills set candidates apart in this role. These competencies ensure efficient development, optimization, and deployment of large-scale computational models that drive scientific research and innovation.

What are the typical challenges faced by a Python PhD HPC professional when working on large-scale computational projects?

Professionals in a Python PhD HPC role often encounter challenges related to optimizing Python code for high-performance computing environments, particularly when scaling computations across multiple nodes or clusters. Managing memory usage, debugging parallel code, and ensuring compatibility with various HPC libraries and frameworks are common hurdles. Additionally, effective collaboration with interdisciplinary teams—such as domain scientists, system administrators, and data engineers—is crucial for project success. Staying updated with advancements in both Python and HPC technologies also requires ongoing learning and adaptability.

What is a Python PhD HPC specialist?

A Python PhD HPC specialist is a professional with a doctoral degree who uses the Python programming language to develop and optimize high-performance computing (HPC) applications. These specialists often work on complex scientific or engineering problems that require significant computational resources, such as simulations, data analysis, or machine learning at scale. They possess deep expertise in both Python programming and HPC environments, including parallel computing, distributed systems, and cluster management. Their work often bridges the gap between theoretical research and practical implementation on supercomputers or large compute clusters.
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Scientific Data Services Engineer - AI & HPC

Scientific Data Services Engineer - AI & HPC

Argonne National Laboratory

Lemont, IL • On-site, Remote

$94.49K - $147.40K/yr

Full-time

Posted 7 days ago

Job description

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility's (ALCF) mission is to accelerate major scientific discoveries and engineering breakthroughs for humanity by designing and providing world-leading computing facilities in partnership with the computational science community. We help researchers solve some of the world's largest and most complex problems with our unique combination of supercomputing resources and computational science expertise.


The ALCF has an opening for a data services engineer working in the space of enabling AI for science, specifically targeting large-scale scientific data management. The successful candidate will join the Data Services and Workflows group, which focuses on scientific workflows that combine large-scale data, simulations, analysis, and AI. In this position, the candidate can expect to engineer solutions that expose terabytes to petabytes of scientific data to users and to AI models, emphasizing data ingestion, indexing, and search of diverse data. Working together with scientists, you will work to understand data from target science domains, how to structure it efficiently for search according to project requirements, and expose it to users through highly-usable web applications, and to AI applications through high-performance APIs.


The Data Services and Workflows group--and this position--involves work in a highly collaborative environment involving science application teams, academia and industry, as well as other national labs and agencies, to solve some of the world's largest and most complex problems in science and engineering. The candidate will engage with science application teams and contribute to broader scientific initiatives.

This position qualifies as "Hybrid Remote Work - Occasionally Onsite": which applies to employees typically working more than 60% of their time remotely.

Position Requirements

Required skills and qualifications

  • RD2: Bachelors and 5+ years of experience, Masters and 3+ years, or PhD and 0+ years, or equivalent

  • Degree in computer science, computational science, a physical science, engineering, or related field

  • Comprehensive experience programming in one or more programming languages such as Python, C/C++

  • Experience with at least one data management framework (e.g. OpenMetadata)
  • Experience with deployment in diverse environments (e.g. Kubernetes, HPC)
  • Ability to create, maintain, and support high-quality software is essential
  • Experience with version control software such as git
  • Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment
  • Effective written and oral communications skills
  • Ability to model Argonne's core values of impact, safety, respect, integrity and teamwork

Preferred skills and qualifications

  • A recent MS or PhD in computer science, computational science, a physical science, engineering, or related field
  • Experience working with scientific data in one or more domains
  • Experience working with parallel filesystems
  • Experience designing or operating data services, including deployment, analysis, and integration with AI language models
  • Experience profiling and optimizing data services for performance
  • Familiarity with secure, multi-user services, including authentication/authorization, and API security

Job Family

Research Development (RD)

Job Profile

Software Engineering 2

Worker Type

Regular

Time Type

Full timeThe expected hiring range for this position is $94,486.00 - $147,398.94.

Please note that the pay range information is a general guideline only. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as, but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, business considerations, internal equity, and external market pay for comparable jobs. Additionally, comprehensive benefits are part of the total rewards package.

Click here to view Argonne employee benefits!

As an equal employment opportunity employer, and in accordance with our core values of impact, safety, respect, integrity and teamwork, Argonne National Laboratory is committed to a safe and welcoming workplace that fosters collaborative scientific discovery and innovation. Argonne encourages everyone to apply for employment. Argonne is committed to nondiscrimination and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law.

Argonne employees, and certain guest researchers and contractors, are subject to particular restrictions related to participation in Foreign Government Sponsored or Affiliated Activities, as defined and detailed in United States Department of Energy Order 486.1A. You will be asked to disclose any such participation in the application phase for review by Argonne's Legal Department.

All Argonne offers of employment are contingent upon a background check that includes an assessment of criminal conviction history conducted on an individualized and case-by-case basis. Please be advised that Argonne positions require upon hire (or may require in the future) for the individual be to obtain a government access authorization that involves additional background check requirements. Failure to obtain or maintain such government access authorization could result in the withdrawal of a job offer or future termination of employment.

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