Compute Platform Engineer I

GlaxoSmithKline

Seattle, WA

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JOB DETAILS

JOB TYPE

Full-time, Employee

SKILLS

Affirmative Action, Agile Programming Methodologies, Algorithms, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Analysis Skills, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Atlassian JIRA, Best Practices, C++ Programming Language, Cloud Computing, Code Reviews, Computer Science, Computer Systems, Consulting, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Data Analysis, DevOps, Disease, Disease Prevention and Control, Distributed Computing, Docker, Documentation, Ecosystems, Engineering Software, Expense Reports, Genetics, Git, GitHub, Go Programming Language (Golang), HIV/AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome), Healthcare, Human Resources, Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Java, Jenkins, Leadership, Linux Operating System, MPI, Medical Products, Metadata, Metrics, Microsoft Windows Azure, Military, Network System Hardware, Oncology, Open Source, OpenMP, Operational Strategy, Parallel Computing, Performance Analysis, Performance Tuning/Optimization, Process Development, Productivity Management, Programming Languages, Programming Tools, Purchasing/Procurement, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Research & Development (R&D), Scala Programming Language, Software Development, Software Engineering, State Laws and Regulations, Technical Writing, Technical/Engineering Design, Test Automation, Test Suite, Time Management, Unix Operating Systems, Vaccination

LOCATION

Seattle, WA

POSTED

30+ days ago

Site Name: USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence, Cambridge 300 Technology Square, Seattle Sixth Ave, South San Francisco 611 Gateway Blvd
Posted Date: Feb 18 2026

The Onyx Research Data Platform organization represents a major investment by GSK R&D and Digital & Tech, designed to deliver a step-change in our ability to leverage data, knowledge, and prediction to find new medicines. We are a full-stack shop consisting of product and portfolio leadership, data engineering, infrastructure and DevOps, data / metadata / knowledge platforms, and AI/ML and analysis platforms, all geared toward:

Building a next-generation data experience for GSK's scientists, engineers, and decision-makers, increasing productivity and reducing time spent on "data mechanics"
Providing best-in-class AI/ML and data analysis environments to accelerate our predictive capabilities and attract top-tier talent
Aggressively engineering our data at scale to unlock the value of our combined data assets and predictions in real-time

Our Compute Platform Engineering team is building a first-in-class platform of toolchains and workflows that accelerate application development, scale up computational experiments, and integrate all computation with project metadata, logs, experiment configuration and performance tracking over abstractions that encompass Cloud and High-Performance Computing (HPC). This metadata-forward, CI/CD-driven platform represents and enables the entire application and analysis lifecycle including interactive development and explorations (notebooks), large-scale batch processing, observability and production application deployments.

A Compute Platform Engineer I is a technical contributor who can consistently take a poorly defined business or technical problem, work it to a well-defined problem / specification, and execute on it at a high level. They have a strong focus on metrics, both for the impact of their work and for its inner workings / operations. They are a model for the team on best practice for software development in general (and their specialization in particular), including code quality, documentation, DevOps, and testing. They ensure robustness of our services and serve as an escalation point in the operation of existing services, pipelines, and workflows.

A Compute Platform Engineer I should be familiar with the tools of their specialization and of their customers and engaged with the open-source community surrounding them - potentially, even to the level of contributing pull requests

Key Responsibilities:

Designs, builds, and operates tools, services, workflows, etc that deliver high value through the solution to key business problems,
Responsible for development of key components of a hybrid on-prem/cloud compute platform for both interactive and scalable batch computing and establishing of processes and workflows to transition existing HPC users and teams to this platform
Responsible for code-driven environment, applications, and container/image builds as well as CI/CD driven application deployments.
Consult science users on application scalability to PBs of data by having a deep understanding of software engineering, algorithms, and underlying hardware infrastructure and their impact on performance.
Confidently optimizes design and execution of complex solutions within large-scale distributed computing environments
Produces well-engineered software, including appropriate automated test suites, technical documentation, and operational strategy
Ensure consistent application of platform abstractions to ensure quality and consistency with respect to logging and lineage
Fully versed in coding best practices and ways of working, and participates in code reviews and partnering to improve the team's standards
Adhere to QMS framework and CI/CD best practices and helps to guide improvements to them that improve ways of working

Why You?

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Data Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field
Experience in programming language: e.g., Python, Go, C++, Scala, Java, including toolchains for documentation, testing, and operations / observability
Experience in modern software development tools / ways of working (e.g. git/GitHub, devops tools, metrics / monitoring, ...)
Cloud experience (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure), including infrastructure-as-code tools and scalable compute technologies, such as Google Batch and Vertex
Experience with CI/CD implementations using git and a common CI/CD stack (e.g., Azure DevOps, CloudBuild, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab)
Experience in Linux/Unix

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and the larger CNCF ecosystem including experience with application deployment tools such as Helm
Experience with low level application build tools (make, CMake) as well as automated build systems such as spack or easybuild
Application experience of CI/CD implementations using git and a common CI/CD stack (e.g., Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab, Azure DevOps)
Experience in workflow orchestration with tools such as Argo Workflow, Airflow, and scientific workflow tools such as Nextflow, Snakemake, VisTrails, or Cromwell
Experience with application performance tuning and optimization, including in parallel and distributed computing paradigms and communication libraries such as MPI, OpenMP, Gloo, including deep understanding of the underlying systems (hardware, networks, storage) and their impact on application performance.
Experience with agile software development environments using tools like Jira and Confluence
Familiarity with the tools, techniques, optimizations in high-performance applications space, including engagement with the opensource community (and potentially making contributions to such tools)

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* If you are based in Cambridge, MA; Waltham, MA; Rockville, MD; or San Francisco, CA, the annual base salary for new hires in this position ranges $82,088 to $136,813.

The US salary ranges take into account a number of factors including work location within the US market, the candidate's skills, experience, education level and the market rate for the role. In addition, this position offers an annual bonus and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program which is dependent on the level of the role. Available benefits include health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and paid caregiver/parental and medical leave.

If salary ranges are not displayed in the job posting for a specific country, the relevant compensation will be discussed during the recruitment process.

Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases - to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we're committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

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