Position Summary

The Senior HPC Specialist supports New York University's High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Research Cloud services by partnering with faculty and other research professionals in support of the HPC environment. The work will involve the installation, testing, maintenance, upgrades, and administration of compilers and applications on HPC resources, generating system usage and utilization data, developing and teaching tutorials on HPC topics, and maintaining documentation for a rapidly changing HPC environment. Fine-tune cluster and cloud configuration which involves managing queues, schedulers, and other resources in accordance with HPC policies, while working closely with the HPC and Research Cloud Systems team on hardware and storage configuration.

Qualifications

Required Education:

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Preferred Education:

Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computational Chemistry, Physics, Data Science or in a related field.

Required Experience:

5+ years of running and supporting scientific applications on large scale computers and cloud environments. Optimizing and developing applications on UNIX-based systems, programming experience with modern languages and, application software, protocols, tools and utilities. Experience with monitoring and improving HPC application performance. Demonstrated experience in diagnosing and resolving complex technical issues in HPC environments.

Required Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:

Proficiency with multi-vendor hardware/software configuration. Knowledge of using containerized applications (e.g. Singularity) in HPC and Research Cloud Environments. Ability to provide technical leadership and management of complex, large-scale computing systems projects. Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences and to effectively interact with users, researchers, and technical teams. Excellent organizational and communication skills. Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams. Project management skills, including planning, execution, and delivery of HPC projects. Ability to mentor and guide less experienced team members in HPC and Research Cloud technologies and practices.

Preferred Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:

Knowledge of job queuing systems, schedulers and workload managers, and configuration management systems. Knowledge of Big data analytics platforms. Experience in Matlab, R, shell scripts, Python, AI/ML packages, PyTorch, Tensorflow, bioinformatics pipelines, and the ability to use containers in an HPC environment.

Additional Information

In compliance with NYC's Pay Transparency Act, the annual base salary range for this position is USD $117,000.00 to USD $137,000.00. New York University considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, as well as, market and organizational considerations when extending an offer. This pay range represents base pay only and excludes any additional items such as incentives, bonuses, clinical compensation, or other items.

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Posting Number2024-13834

Posted Date2 months ago(9/4/2024 10:17 PM)

Location : LocationUS-NY-New York

Hybrid Remote Work ClassificationMostly Remote: Remote more than 60% of time

DepartmentHPC and Research Cloud Support

School/DivisionNYU IT (WS1170)

Compensation GradeBand 53

UnionN/A

FT/PTFull-Time

CategoryTechnology