Assoc. Scientist

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Core Job Summary

The Associate Scientist, GAB supports the University’s research goals and objectives by performing laboratory experiments in his/her areas of interest, expertise or assignment. Moreover, the incumbent performs various analytical procedures involving method development and application development and synthesis.

Core Job Functions

• Contributes to basic and applied research activities including authorship of scientific publications, technical and agency reports, and patent preparations.
• Publishes in refereed journals in collaboration with department leadership or independently.
• Supervises research employees and non-exempt staff.
• Writes extramural proposals with approval of senior managing staff.
• Creates and conducts experiments and analyzes results.
• Works with other researchers to use and develop end products.
• Provides ready access to all experimental data for the faculty researchers, supervisors, and other relevant staff.
• Requests or acquires equipment and supplies for assigned project(s).
• Applies for grants to continue research and prepares materials for submission to granting agencies and foundations.
• Adheres to University and unit-level policies and procedures and safeguards University assets.

This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary.

Core Qualifications

Education:

Ph.D., M.D. or other doctoral degree in a natural science or engineering discipline, or computer science/engineering is required.

Experience:

Minimum 5 years of relevant experience required. Experience with bash scripting, high level languages such as C, C\+\+, Fortran, and awareness or experience in data science using Python or similar programming environments, and with Perl or other scripting language.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Skills in collecting, organizing, and analyzing data.
• Ability to recognize, analyze, and solve a variety of problems.
• Ability to exercise sound judgment in making critical decisions.
• Demonstrated knowledge of parallel and distributed computing technologies including programming experience in MPI, OpenMP, Hadoop, Python, and related tools.
• Familiarity with back up and disaster recovery technologies.
• Experience or understanding in cloud computing, containers, and virtualization technologies.
• Good interpersonal communication skills and written communication skills.
• Ability to work in an office and datacenter environment.
• Demonstrated ability to interact positively with and manage varied technical personalities.

Department Specific Functions:

The Associate Scientist provides consulting services for the installation, configuration, and testing of AI/ML tools and packages within a scientific research environment and assists users in advancing their research and training needs in data science and computing. Collaborates with other researchers and helps develop strategies to improve user training, outreach and engagement. This includes teaching and developing courses, external funding opportunities, conferences, and publications. The Associate Scientist evaluates new high-performance computing (HPC) architectures, systems, and software tools to determine best techniques for achieving performance, and provides application consulting and technical support to faculty, students and research staff using HPC environments.

User Recruitment, Research Development, and Outreach:

• Serves as a research facilitator and works with potential users to engage with IDSC Advanced Computing Services (ACS) services.
• Collaborates in the design and delivery of HPC and data science courses with a goal to expedite research computing.
• Reviews user-facing documentation for accuracy and completeness and makes recommendations for improvement in organization or content.
• Design, develop, and teach courses (including short courses for users) to promote computational sciences across the UM enterprise.

Grant Collaborations:

• Develops and submits grant proposals in areas that help with expediting ACS capabilities in support of the UM enterprise.
• Collaborates with UM faculty and other non-UM collaborators in improving ACS services in terms of both compute and data-driven workflows.

Strategic Priorities:

• Assists the Director with accounting and policies for charge-back through periodic ACS service utilization statements for identifying and cultivating new business development opportunities.
• Designs, revises, and updates policies on allocation management strategies for accelerating research and innovation through advanced computing.

Professional Development:

• Represents ACS and IDSC in domestic and international conferences, symposia, and other professional meetings.

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Job Status:

Full time

Employee Type:

Staff