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Job Location
Raleigh, NC
Department
College of Sciences
About the Department
The College of Sciences brings together the mathematical, physical, and biological-sciences in a research-intensive environment that simultaneously values excellence in teaching and a strong community engagement. Sciences IT is a growing unit that provides innovative IT solutions, responsive and forward-looking support, and creative applications of technology to support the research, teaching, administrative and outreach functions of the College of Sciences.
The College of Sciences aims at creating a diverse, inclusive, and equitable working environment. The selected candidate will be expected to foster an environment that is supportive, welcoming of all groups, and abides by the cultural and behavioral aspirations in our culture charter. Please visit https://sciences.ncsu.edu/about/strategic-planning/culture-charter/ for more information on the College of Sciences Culture Charter.
Essential Job Duties
This position will assist researchers in optimal use of the NC State HPC core facility and external HPC facilities (supercomputing centers, cloud). This includes advanced computational science consulting, numerical analysis, mathematical modeling, code development and optimization, software installation, and scientific analysis and visualization.
As part of the Sciences IT research technologies & infrastructure group, this position will engage with other IT staff in the College and central IT service providers including the Libraries and OIT, as well as colleagues in other college IT units to provide stable IT services that meet specific scientific research needs as well as solutions for broader needs in the science community.
In addition, this position will proactively identify unmet needs and emerging solutions. As a valued member of both the IT and science communities, it will serve as an advocate and collaborator with NC State and external service providers to support the College of Sciences’ needs for scientific computing.
Primary duties include, but are not limited to the following:
Budgeting: Engage with faculty and OIT regarding regarding the specifications and acquisition of new hardware to be added to the NC State HPC core facility. Assists with developing budgets for grants and access to supercomputing resources.
Training: Creation and delivery of custom training modules or workshops on various research computing topics as requested, focused on skills development for the next generation of researchers in our graduate programs.
Research: This position supports researchers from all disciplines represented in the College of Sciences, including physics, bioinformatics, genomics, climate, biology and life sciences, toxicology, chemistry, marine, earth and atmospheric sciences as well as the mathematical and statistical sciences.
Other Responsibilities
Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Minimum Education and Experience
Require post-baccalaureate credentials or a bachelor’s degree plus alternative or equivalent professional training and experience may be substituted for the advanced degree on an exceptional basis.
Other Required Qualifications
Demonstrated ability to perform scientific analysis and visualization of modeled or measured datasets, with scripting languages (MATLAB, Python, R) and visualization tools (e.g., ParaView, VisIt).
Understanding of cyberinfrastructure needs common to a wide range of scientific workflows. Ability to identify capabilities and limitations of local scientific computing resources
Ability to connect researchers with appropriate external resources (XSEDE, DOE, NASA, etc.) and identify cases where use of commercial cloud may be appropriate.
Preferred Qualifications
The following items are desirable, but not necessary for consideration for this position:
Masters or PhD in a computational field within the College of Sciences’ disciplines (i.e. computational physics, chemistry, biological sciences, mathematics, statistics, marine, earth & atmospheric sciences/earth systems)
5+ years of relevant professional experience in high performance computing, mathematical modeling, and scientific visualization
Experience estimating and justifying computational resource requests for applications to external high performance computing centers.
Demonstrated abilities to:
Port, optimize, and parallelize research workflows for running on high performance computing (HPC) resources.
Use numerical analysis and mathematical techniques to develop and test new algorithms.
Compile, run, optimize, parallelize, and write additional modules for large scale scientific modeling software – either established community codes or original research code, requiring proficiency in a compiled language (Fortran, C) and parallel programming (MPI, OpenMP).
Obtain external funding through project proposals, grants, and contracts
Required License(s) or Certification(s)
N/A
Valid NC Driver's License required
No
Commercial Driver's License required
No
Recruitment Dates and Special Instructions
Job Open Date
07/22/2022
Anticipated Close Date
Open until filled.
Special Instructions to Applicants
Interviews may begin at any time therefore early application is encouraged.
Position Details
Position Number
00101139
Position Type
EHRA Non-Faculty
Full Time Equivalent (FTE) (1.0 = 40 hours/week)
1.00
Appointment
12 Month Recurring
Mandatory Designation - Adverse Weather
Non Mandatory - Adverse Weather
Mandatory Designation - Emergency Events
Non Mandatory - Emergency Event
Is this position partially or fully funded on ARRA stimulus monies?
No
Department ID
170101 - College of Sciences - Dean
AA/EEO
NC State University is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, genetic information, status as an individual with a disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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