HPC Associate Computational Scientist – GPU & Cloud

Mount Sinai; New York (NY); On-site; USD 72,000 - 109,000; Full time

Job summary

The Mount Sinai Health System’s MSSM Scientific Computing Group seeks an Associate Computational Scientist to work with scientists to effectively use MSSM HPC clusters and to deploy codes on new technologies.

You will help researchers identify, implement, and improve computational and data workflows across MSSM teams when expanding to multi-petabyte storage and high-bandwidth networks.

Qualifications

• Masters degree or equivalent in a domain science; Ph.D. in a scientific domain preferred.
• Beginner level, with some experience in a scientific/academic computing environment or equivalent preferred.

Responsibilities

• Partner with scientist and research staff to efficiently and effectively use MSSM HPC clusters, to be expanded to over 10,000 cores with high bandwidth, low latency interconnects several petabytes of data storage and databases.
• Work with research groups to help identify, implement and improve their computational and data workflow; assists in facilitating computing and data infrastructure solutions specific to MSSM researchers.
• Participate in the research and deployment of new technologies such as GPUs, Hadoop and cloud computing.
• Assist in optimizing researchers codes for maximum performance.
• Troubleshoot isolates and resolves applications and other technical issues.
• May benchmark application codes, develop regression tests and deploy application performance tools.
• Assist in the installation and management of numerical libraries and application performance tools.
• Participate in the development and implementation of backup policies.
• Participate in the integration of HPC resources with laboratory equipment such as sequencers, etc.
• Work with scientists and researchers to effectively use complementary national resources including XSEDE.
• Help define and deploy a comprehensive computational and data vision for MSSM researchers.
• Assist in developing and writing proposals. Creates and provides clear documentation on all items.
• Other relevant duties as assigned.

Education

Masters degree or equivalent in a domain science; Ph.D. in a scientific domain preferred

Job description

The Mount Sinai Health System’s MSSM Scientific Computing Group seeks an Associate Computational Scientist to work with scientists to effectively use MSSM HPC clusters and to deploy codes on new technologies.

You will help researchers identify, implement, and improve computational and data workflows across MSSM teams when expanding to multi-petabyte storage and high-bandwidth networks.