Research Scientist I/II Open Rank - Atlanta, United States - Georgia Institute of Technology

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Overview

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation.

We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan.

These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship.

Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths.

The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts.

Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security.

Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition.

The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

• Students are our top priority.
• We strive for excellence.
• We thrive on diversity.
• We celebrate collaboration.
• We champion innovation.
• We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
• We nurture the wellbeing of our community
• We act ethically.
• We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

About the Office of Information Technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology

Located in the heart of vibrant Atlanta, Georgia, the Partnership for an Advanced Computing Environment (PACE) team defines and manages centralized research computing services at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

We facilitate research efforts and foster strategic partnerships to provide Georgia Tech researchers with an unrivaled advantage, empowering them to lead their disciplines for the advancement of science and society across the globe.

In addition to high-performance computing, we incorporate emerging cloud, network, data analytics, and storage technologies.

Our growing team directly supports faculty, students, and other researchers resulting in a dynamic environment filled with intellectual stimulation and continuous innovation.

Location

Atlanta, GA

Job Summary

The OIT (Office of Information Technology) department, Home | Office of Information Technology ) at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia invites applications for Partnership for Advanced Computing Environment (PACE).

Georgia Tech's Partnership for an Advanced Computing Environment (PACE) program is seeking an expert consultant to join our Outreach and Faculty Engagement team.

This will be a remote eligible position that can work on campus, or remote (in or out of state) as preferred.

The successful candidate must be able to work effectively on a team and independent projects with the ability to self-direct and adjust to shifts in priorities.

This position requires a wide range of demonstrated knowledge and skills, including computational methods and workflows; advanced computer architectures; installation, debugging, parallelization, optimization, and performance tuning of research software; experience with science gateway technologies; advanced understanding of job scheduling and resource allocation; as well as effective use of high-performance storage, high-performance networking, and accelerator technologies like GPUs.

Responsibilities

• Interact with the research community at Georgia Tech,
• Respond to a wide range of requests submitted by faculty & student researchers spanning areas of research computing.
• Identify gaps and pursue opportunities for significant collaborations in their funded and published research.
• Collect and assess community feedback/needs and communicate data-driven feedback to the team internally to help guide the new features and services that will benefit the Georgia Tech research community.
• Develop and maintain documentation and training for PACE service offering.
• Participate in efforts to strengthen the HPC/HTC user community internally and externally, such as developing and disseminating whitepapers and best practices documents, developing and delivering training seminars, and representing PACE in national venues including conferences and workshops.
• Participate in creating materials and reports to promote PACE services, and compiles success stories (e.g., PACE newsletter) arising from these efforts.

Required Qualifications

This position vacancy is an open rank announcement.

Final job offer will be dependent on candidate qualifications in alignment with Research Faculty ranks as outlined in section 3.2.

1 of the Georgia Tech Faculty Handbook )


Research Scientist I:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, or related area

Research Scientist II:

• A Master's degree and three (3) years of relevant full-time experience after completion of that degree, or
• A Master's degree and five (5) years of relevant full-time experience after completion of a Bachelor's degree, or
• A Doctoral degree

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent communications skills that include writing, speaking, teaching and documentation
• Experience in collaborative and multi-disciplinary research computing facilitation, preferably in a university environment.
• High degree of motivation and the ability to work closely with faculty, researchers, students, and IT professionals while providing compute and software solutions in an advanced computing environment.
• Ability to engage with and champion for a highly diverse research computing community at regional, national, and global scale.
• Ability to work effectively in a diverse team on both collaborative and independent projects, and to adjust to shifts in priorities.
• Service-focused orientation and excellent follow-through.
• Ability to provide effective technical solutions to highly complex problems in advanced and diverse computing environments.

Additionally, they will have demonstrated experience in:

• Computational methods, architectures, current and emerging technologies, and middleware (e.g. MPI stacks, job schedulers, numerical libraries, and data analytics tools)
• Fluency in debugging, parallelization, optimization, and tuning utilizing multiple programming and/or scripting languages; experience with scientific libraries and applications
• Fluency with RedHat Enterprise Linux environment

Required Documents to Attach

Applicants should submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, and the names and contact information for at least three references.

Contact Information

Requests for information may be directed to Eric Coulter Applications will be considered beginning March 12, 2024, but the search will continue until the positions are filled.

A background check must be completed prior to beginning employment.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The University is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all.

To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and University policy, Georgia Tech provides equal opportunity to all faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including applicants for admission and/or employment, contractors, volunteers, and participants in institutional programs, activities, or services.

Georgia Tech complies with all applicable laws and regulations governing equal opportunity in the workplace and in educational activities.

Georgia Tech prohibits discrimination, including discriminatory harassment, on the basis of race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or veteran status in its programs, activities, employment, and admissions.

This prohibition applies to faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including affiliates, invitees, and guests.

Further, Georgia Tech prohibits citizenship status, immigration status, and national origin discrimination in hiring, firing, and recruitment, except where such restrictions are required in order to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or Attorney General directive, or where they are required by Federal, State, or local government contract.

All members of the USG community must adhere to the USG Statement of Core Values, which consists of Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect.

These values shape and fundamentally support our University's work.

Additionally, all faculty, staff, and administrators must also be aware of and comply with the Board of Regents and Georgia Institute of Technology's policies on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom.

More information on these policies can be found here:
Board of Regents Policy Manual | University System of Georgia ).

Other Information

This is a State Funded Appointment.