Hybrid AI & HPC Scientist for Research Computing

The University Of Chicago; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Chicago Research Computing Center seeks a highly motivated Computational Scientist to work with faculty on HPC, AI, and related technologies. You will develop software, advise on computational strategies, and help port and optimize scientific workloads on RCC systems.

You will join a multidisciplinary team delivering high-performance computing resources, AI tooling, and cloud options, while creating training materials and technical documentation for researchers.

Qualifications

• Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.
• 2-5 years of work experience in a related job discipline.
• PhD in a relevant field preferred.
• Proficiency with HPC systems and Linux/UNIX environments.
• Experience with HPC schedulers (e.g., Slurm).
• Experience developing scientific software and workflows.

Responsibilities

• Develop software to support the data acquisition, ingestion, and integration for research projects.
• Develop user interfaces and scalable back-end services to automate and accelerate the scientific output of multi-institutional research projects.
• Assist in advising faculty on using HPC, AI, and related technologies for their research.
• Develop and maintain scientific software, computational workflows, and research computing environments on RCC systems.
• Troubleshoot, profile, optimize, and port scientific applications for performance across CPU/GPU/memory/storage/I-O.
• Contribute to RCC Consultant Partnership Program and other collaborative initiatives.
• Contribute computational expertise to grant proposals, including resource scoping for AI, HPC, cloud, and storage.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation and knowledge base resources.

Skills

C/C++/Fortran

Python

Linux/UNIX

HPC/Slurm

Docker

AI/ML frameworks

LLM APIs

Git

Education

PhD in a relevant field

Tools

NumPy

SciPy

pandas

xarray

scikit-learn

Docker

Apptainer/Singularity

Git

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

The University of Chicago Research Computing Center seeks a highly motivated Computational Scientist to work with faculty on HPC, AI, and related technologies. You will develop software, advise on computational strategies, and help port and optimize scientific workloads on RCC systems.

You will join a multidisciplinary team delivering high-performance computing resources, AI tooling, and cloud options, while creating training materials and technical documentation for researchers.