HPC System Support Specialist

HPC System Support Specialist

College of Humanities, Arts & Sciences

NOTE: to apply for this position, please go to https://jobs.uni.edu/pands/view/53314 

This is a part-time position of 20 hours/week. Scheduled hours to be agreed upon by the department and selected candidate. This is a grant-funded, term position scheduled to end July 31, 2028.

Impact & Responsibilities: Develops training materials for faculty and students regarding managing jobs in the High Performance Computing (HPC) system; collaborates with faculty and students to understand their scientific tasks and identify computing requirements; advises faculty, staff, and students on how to organize, prepare, and obtain data sets for analysis; provides guidance on the use of techniques such as data visualization, statistical analysis, machine learning, and data mining to answer research questions; assists and trains faculty in composing and assembling reproducible workflows and protocols; and assists researchers with job requests, environment, execution, and troubleshooting.

Requirements: Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, statistics, or related field; ability to interact with students and faculty to facilitate their use of the HPC system; experience with Linux based clustered computing environments such as RedHat and Rocky Linux; proficiency in shell scripting (Bash, Python) and at least one of the following: R, C, C++, Perl, or Java.

Student experience will be considered.

Preferred: Master's degree in information technology, computer science, statistics, or related field; experience working with a range of audiences; experience providing support and/or training; proficiency in setting up jobs for parallel execution, e.g., allocating adequate CPU cores and memory to meet specific requirements; experience with Linux account management and application support; and proficiency with job submission systems such as Slurm, PDB, and LSF. Student experience will be considered.

UNI actively seeks to enhance diversity and is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. The University encourages applications from persons of color, women, individuals living with disabilities, and veterans. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, creed, disability, ethnicity, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, national origin, political affiliation, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other basis protected by federal and/or state law.

The University offers an excellent benefits package including a vacation plan, employer sponsored retirement plans, health and dental insurance, and life and disability insurance. Benefits package details can be viewed at uni.edu/jobs/why. Application materials received by Tuesday, June 11th will be given first consideration. For more information or to apply, visit http://jobs.uni.edu. Criminal and other relevant background checks required. UNI is a tobacco free campus.