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This job was posted by https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov : For more information, please see: https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov/jobs/12002081 Research Computing and Data Facilitator - NCSA

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign provides supercomputing and advanced digital resources for the nation\'s scientific enterprise. At NCSA, University of Illinois faculty, staff, students, and collaborators from around the globe use advanced digital resources to address and research grand challenges for the benefit of science and society. NCSA has been advancing one third of Fortune 50 companies for more than 30 years by bringing industry, researchers, and students together to solve grand challenges at rapid speed and scale.

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign seeks a highly qualified and motivated Research Computing and Data Facilitator. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in supporting and enhancing the research capabilities of campus scholars by providing expertise in utilizing research computing and data resources on campus, at NCSA, and nationwide. They will work to identify and advocate for new and modified services and resources required to support evolving research programs. In addition, the successful candidate will have a significant responsibility for training researchers to use research computing and data resources effectively and ensuring the availability of high-quality resource documentation and consulting services. The successful candidate will be expected to stay abreast of the latest developments in research computing and data management, ensuring that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign remains at the forefront of research innovation.

NCSA is committed to increasing the diversity of the campus community. Candidates who have experience working with a diverse range of faculty, staff, and students, and who can contribute to the climate of inclusivity are encouraged to apply.

Job Summary

Support and enhance the research capabilities of campus researchers by providing expert assistance and training to campus researchers on utilizing research computing and data resources on campus, at NCSA, and nationwide. They will work to identify and advocate for new and modified services and resources required to support evolving research programs. In addition, they will train researchers to use research computing and data resources effectively and ensure the availability of high-quality resource documentation and consulting services.

Duties & Responsibilities

Research Application Support:

Provide general and in-depth support/guidance in multiple areas of specialization, which include the following: accelerator programming, algorithm and library analysis, evaluation, selection, and implementation of application-based solutions; systems architecture, hardware, and software.

Work collaboratively with research groups to assist in enhancing the performance of their codes and applications, with a special focus on advanced cluster architectures, large shared and distributed memory systems, with special attention to ML/DL/AI applications in projects and programs such as NCSA strategic efforts, Illinois Computes, Research IT, and the c3.ai Digital Transformation Institute.

Enable users to adopt new paradigms and algorithms, such as using artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning with their scientific applications and using accelerators such as graphical processing units (GPUs) and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).

Use available software tools to analyze performance of workflows and codes, as well as assist in identifying and installing appropriate software libraries, and collaborating with users to employ them effectively.

Serve as the primary point of conta t for several science and engineering teams: understand project goals and computational and data requirements, benchmark and/or model application performance, and tune or optimize applications for specific HPC platforms.

Apply domain knowledge to improve academic research applications to help researchers define and solve leading-edge problems, provide consulting expertise to researchers across various science and engineering domains to leverage synergies across projects, and contribute to community codes to support a broad range of communities.

Training development and delivery:

Conceptualize, develop, and curate user training content covering ML/AI/DL and/or Quantum Computing applications, and advanced cyberinfrastructure systems such as HPC/HTC clusters, Kubernetes-based deployments (Jupyter Hub), and others to a wide audience.

Provide classroom- and/or web-based training, present seminars/tutorials at workshops, etc.

Mentor students through cohort programs.

Facilitate and organize training events in conjunction with academic and industry partners.

Solutions and Proposal Development:

Conceptualize and implement application solutions for classes of problems of interest to the UIUC research community.

Contribute to benchmarking efforts, participate in requirements gathering from key proposal stakeholders, a