IT Specialist: AI, Data Science & HPC Systems

Smithsonian Institution; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

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Job summary

The Smithsonian Institution, Office of Digital and Innovation (ODI), seeks a senior specialist to lead digital asset services and enterprise systems supporting discovery across SI’s museums and the National Zoo. You will oversee data management, AI initiatives and HPC-driven workflows for biodiversity genomics and related research.

You will collaborate with IT and research teams, advise on data science methods and AI policy, and translate scientific needs into scalable software and pipelines to

Qualifications

• One year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-13 level in the Federal Service.

Responsibilities

• Apply software tools used by biodiversity genomics and informatics researchers in order to carry out software analysis, design, development, modification and implementation to develop, modify and enhance workflows for scientific researchers.
• Develop, implement and test algorithms and analytic techniques to create informatics tools (to process data for storage and retrieval) and enhance informatic workflows for biodiversity genomics research, informatics research and other biological and environmental scientific research.
• Perform collaborative research in the area of biodiversity genomics and machine learning. This involves the development and implementation of algorithms, and analysis, design, development, and implementation of new workflows that exploit the needed biodiversity genomics and machine learning toolset.
• Advise the data science research community, cochairs the artificial intelligence (AI) community of practice working group, builds a use‑case inventory and writes AI policy for the Institution. Serves as a member of the AI Review Committee.
• Work closely with the IT professionals who manage, implement, test and debug the high‑performance computing cluster (HPCC) and networking infrastructure, acting as translators and advocates for the research community to ensure the appropriate evolution of the technical infrastructure that underlies the research environment Smithsonian‑wide.

Skills

Software tools

Data analysis

Collaboration

Data science

IT requirements

Programming languages

Statistical packages

Scientific computing tools

Tools

Programming languages

Statistical packages

Scientific computing tools

Job description

The Smithsonian Institution, Office of Digital and Innovation (ODI), seeks a senior specialist to lead digital asset services and enterprise systems supporting discovery across SI’s museums and the National Zoo. You will oversee data management, AI initiatives and HPC-driven workflows for biodiversity genomics and related research.

You will collaborate with IT and research teams, advise on data science methods and AI policy, and translate scientific needs into scalable software and pipelines to