Requisition Id4430

Overview

The Technology Integration Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is seeking a highly motivated senior scientist to research design and deploy capabilities for next-generation leadership computing systems. The successful candidate should have a deep understanding in one or more of the following:

• Processor architectures (e.g. CPU GPU FPGA)
• Memory architectures (e.g. DRAM DDR HBM persistent memories)
• Interconnects (e.g. electrical optical various topologies)
• Storage hierarchy (e.g. Flash NVMe HDD tape)

This position is part of the Advanced Technologies Section within the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) Division.

The Advanced Technologies Section offers scientific technical operational and thought leadership by developing hardening and deploying solutions for compute and data intensive computing environments.

The NCCS provides state- of-the-art computational and data science infrastructure coupled with dedicated technical and scientific professionals to accelerate scientific discovery and engineering advances across a broad range of disciplines. NCCS hosts the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility one of DOEs National User Facilities. NCCS will deploy an exascale system in 2021.

Major Duties and Responsibilities

• Advise CCSD/NCCS senior leadership on upcoming leadership compute and data system designs procurements and deployments.
• Participate and lead in requirements gathering procurement and NRE activities for various NCCS compute and data system projects as well as DOE-sponsored vendor research programs.
• Lead collaborations with internal and external researchers on a wide variety of high-performance computing platform design projects.
• Lead integrate and deploy research in hardware-software design and configurations for heterogeneous large-scale systems.
• Perform scaling and performance evaluations of modern heterogeneous and extreme-scale high-performance computing systems.
• Research and develop new capabilities that execute on ORNLs leading data infrastructures.
• Collaborate in authoring peer reviewed papers technical papers reports and proposals.
• Perform service including mentoring participating in conference committees and maintain membership and leadership

Basic Qualifications

• M.S. in computer science computer engineering computational science or a related field and 12+ years of experience or equivalent or B.S. in one of these fields and 15+ years of experience.
• Low-level and/or Linux kernel systems programming.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ph.D. in computer science computer engineering computational science or a related field and 6+ years of experience or equivalent.
• Proven ability to analyze propose develop and deploy solutions to existing problems
• Excellent interpersonal skills oral and written communication skills and strong personal motivation.
• Experience with one or more of:
• Working with compute accelerators and heterogeneous node and system architectures
• Hierarchical memory architectures and/or storage class memories
• High-performance interconnects and/or
• Heterogeneous system design and deployment.
• Experience with modern software development practices.
• A good understanding of hardware/software interactions at the Linux kernel level.

Special Requirement

This position requires access to technology that is subject to export control requirements. Successful candidates must be qualified for such access without an export control license.

ORNL Ethics and Conduct

As a member of the ORNL scientific community you will be expected to commit to ORNL's Research Code of Conduct. Our full code of conduct and a statement by the Lab Director's office can be found here:https://www.ornl.gov/content/research-integrity

Benefits at ORNL

UT Battelle offers an exceptional benefits package to include matching 401K Pension Plan Paid Vacation and Medical / Dental plan. Onsite amenities include Credit Union Medical Clinic and free Fitness facilities.

Relocation

UT Battelle offers a wide range of relocation benefits for individuals and families to make it easier to come and work here. If you are invited to interview please ask your Recruiter about relocating with ORNL.

This position will remain open for a minimum of 5 days after which it will close when a qualified candidate is identified and/or hired.

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