RESEARCH SOFTWARE ARCHITECT-ENT

uab; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 104,000 - 169,000; Full time

Job summary

UAB Research Computing is seeking a Senior Research Software Architect to design and lead GPU-enabled HPC environments and AI/ML workflows for university researchers. This role collaborates with faculty to translate research needs into secure, scalable computing environments, leading development across HPC, cloud, container, and storage platforms.

The position emphasizes security compliance, governance alignment, mentorship of staff, and cross-unit collaboration to deliver robust software

Responsibilities

• Architect advanced computing, GPU-enabled environments for AI/ML research workflows.
• Lead design, development, testing and deployment of diverse software solutions for campus HPC, on-prem cloud, container and storage platforms.
• Collaborate with researchers to translate needs into secure, high-performance computing environments.
• Coordinate integration with other IT units and ensure alignment with governance and security policies.
• Mentor junior team members, provide documentation and knowledge transfer to researchers and staff.
• Bridge research goals with Research Computing capabilities and lead project planning and milestones.

Job description

For UAB IT use only: Independently employs a broad knowledge of principles, practices, and procedures in support of Research Computing systems. Plans, designs, develops, and supports systems and projects to be used by university researchers. Carries out complex assignments requiring the development of new or improved techniques, procedures, and software. Independently provides development leadership on implementations. May lead junior team members in project completion. Serves a direct liaison with user, technical support, training and operations personnel. Leads technical and administrative support to the research computing department. This position will commit to fostering an environment of heightened security following Information Technology Security Policies and participating in security training, such as Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), on an annual basis.

This position will work within Research Computing to architect advanced computing, GPU-enabled environments and serve as a specialized partner to researchers to develop AI/ML research workflows within UAB Research Computing. In addition to typical Research Software Architect duties, this role will include:

• Collaborating with faculty to translate research needs into secure, high-performance computing environments. performance compute environments.
• Designing custom research architectures that support GPU workloads, largescale computing, and advanced AI model experimentation. scale compute, and advanced AI model experimentation.
• Supporting development, training, and evaluation of research AI systems.
• Ensure alignment with institutional governance frameworks, data protection requirements, and Responsible AI practices.
• Serve as the bridge between research goals and Research Computing capabilities.
• Coordinate cloud-based integration with other IT units.
• Serves as a lead architect of software solutions in support of research computing environments.
• Leads the design, development, testing and deployments of a wide variety of applications to support access to and use of campus HPC, on-prem cloud, container and storage platforms. Ensures the application's established set of applicable best practices and documentation level appropriate for the project.
• Leads and provides application support to researchers, working to define requirements and constraints for the overall software solution. Develops scope and project management plans, communication of plans, and milestone delivery timelines.
• Partners with other software engineering professionals from across the university and collaborating institutions to understand existing tools. Establishes how to integrate tools into a new environment. Initiates and/or leads open collaboration with researchers to ensure that engineered solutions fit the research needs.
• Transfers knowledge, expertise, and methodologies by providing documentation, technical assistance and mentorship to researchers and technical staff; communicates software engineering concepts to domain experts with varying degrees of software engineering knowledge.
• Develops own knowledge through independent research and mentors junior team members through discussions and studying existing code bases. Maintains and expands knowledge of current and future software development tools and techniques, programming languages and computing hardware.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

(Annual Salary: $104,045 - $169,075)

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems or a related field and eight (8) years of related experience required. Work experience may NOT substitute for education requirement. Master's degree preferred.

Preferred knowledge, skills, and abilities:

• Advanced knowledge and/or experience in high performance computing environments (on prem and cloud), research computing, research security, or research compliance.
• Advanced knowledge of working in and/or securing Linux-based environments.
• Experience applying ML/AI approaches to research domains
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work across multidisciplinary teams to achieve results.

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