Computational Scientist - AI & Human Health

Mount Sinai Health System•New York, NY

3d•$96,461 - $159,101

About The Position

The Computational Scientist works with scientists and researchers to effectively use MSSM HPC (high performance computing) clusters; researches and deploys codes on new technologies, and works with research groups to identify, implement and improve their computational and data workflow.

Requirements

Masters degree or equivalent in a domain science; Ph.D in a scientific domain preferred.
3 years, preferably in a scientific/academic computing environment or equivalent experience.
Experience in batch HPC cluster environment with a parallel file system
Experience installing and supporting bio and chemistry codes (NAMD, AMBER, Matlab, Gromacs, DESMOND) and laboratory equipment such as sequencers, etc.
Experience with MPI, Open MP and numerical libraries
Experience with scientific workflows
Experience with instrumenting and optimizing application codes
Experience in an academic or research community environment
Programming experience in any applicable language

Responsibilities

Works directly with scientist and research staff to efficiently and effectively use MSSM HPC clusters, to be expanded to over 10,000 cores with high bandwidth, low latency interconnects several petabytes of data storage and databases.
Works with research groups to help identify, implement and improve their computational and data workflow; assists in facilitating computing and data infrastructure solutions specific to MSSM researchers.
Participates in the research and deployment of new technologies such as GPUs, Hadoop and cloud computing.
Instruments, tunes and helps optimize researchers codes for maximum performance.
Troubleshoots isolates and resolves applications and other technical issues.
Benchmarks application codes, develops regression tests and deploys application performance tools.
Installs and manages numerical libraries and application performance tools.
Develops and implements backup policies.
Participates in the integration of HPC resources with laboratory equipment such as sequencers, etc.
Works with scientists and researchers to effectively use complementary national resources including XSEDE.
Helps define and deploy a comprehensive computational and data vision for MSSM researchers.
Writes, publishes and presents papers at national and international conferences.
Assists in developing and writing proposals.
Creates and provides clear documentation on all items.
Other relevant duties as assigned.