The University of Illinois Chicago is seeking a Computational Scientist to advance scientific discovery and support researchers in using advanced computing and data systems.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in a relevant field such as computer science, computer information systems or other science and engineering disciplines
- Experience with machine learning and/or image analysis algorithms and architectures.
- Experience working with GPU co-processers and associated programming platforms (e.g., CUDA, OpenCC or OpenCL)
- Familiarity with shared memory and distributed memory parallelism (such as OpenMP, MPI, and OpenACC), accelerators (such as GPUs), and large-scale file systems
- Demonstrated ability and experience with scripting and programming (e.g., Python, C, R, Bash).
- Advanced degree such as PhD in a STEM field such as Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Material Science
- Familiarity with numerical methods, simulations, modeling, and/or large-scale computation
Responsibilities
- Participate as a member of a highly technical and customer-service driven team. Readily share knowledge and training with other staff members, and forge close working relationships with scientific research groups across campus.
- Conduct investigations and tests of complex scientific software systems to enhance performance or to investigate and resolve matters of significance. Investigate new technologies and techniques of importance to researchers.
- Participate in developing computational pipelines, computer algorithms, and data analysis for ongoing research projects.
- Evaluate, install, upgrade and maintain scientific software with the assistance of graduate students.
- Serve as a technical consultant for sponsored research projects that require high-performance computing, storage, and networking services.
- Provide workshops and one-on-one technical assistance and training to faculty, staff and students in the use of a shared high-performance computing environment and associated scientific software.
- Develop training materials to educate graduate students and faculty members on new computational techniques that utilize advanced cyberinfrastructure.
Other
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required.
- Ability to manage multiple assigned tasks and projects with minimal supervision.
- Master’s degree in a relevant field
- The University of Illinois System is an equal opportunity employer, including but not limited to disability and/or veteran status, and complies with all applicable state and federal employment mandates.
- The university provides accommodations to applicants and employees.
