High Performance Computing Engineer
WatershedBostonPosted 9 March 2026
Job Description
About Watershed
Our vision is to become the leading biocomputing platform. The future of biology is in big data analysis, and we are on a mission to accelerate digital drug discovery with the Watershed platform. Watershed enables scientists to conduct all essential analysis — from lab data to plot — with a single software platform.
We have attracted some of the best bioinformatics, engineering, and commercial talent, and we are growing! Join a team that’s intellectually curious with a bias for action, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, composed of people who have come together to enable outcomes while empowering the research of all those committed to changing lives — all while bringing transformational change to a $40 billion industry.
Responsibilities
Integrate software libraries and cluster computing frameworks into high performance applications
Develop solutions for benchmarking, metric collection, and monitoring of resources
Collaborate with software engineers to optimizing software and maximize computational throughput
Qualifications
Experience in all of the following areas: parallel computing, distributed computing, computer architecture, and software optimization
Programming experience in Python, C/C++, and Bash
Experience working with Unix/Linux, containerization, and cloud environments
Familiarity with networking, security, and the Linux operating system
Ability to analyze very complex problems and come up with novel solutions
Watershed is an equal-opportunity employer and believes diversity of all types is integral to company success. We do not discriminate on the basis of religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, ethnicity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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