Computer Scientist - BF-HPC Partners Data Systems
Dallas, TX

Job Description

Security

This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code 51.215, which authorizes UT

Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information

Salary

Salary Negotiable

Experience and Education

M.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field OR B.S. with demonstrated experience in leading software development projects/teams. Four (4) years post-graduation experience in software development.

Job Duties

Lead BioHPC technical efforts in one or more areas of HPC technologies such as job schedulers, high performance interconnects, parallel file systems, cyber security, cluster management, VM infrastructure, networking, performance tuning, support of scientific applications, or data center planning

* Develop and implement innovative and complex solutions for HPC research, ensuring that upgrades and changes comply with established guidelines and processes.
* Lead group projects to implement and deploy new technologies and services.
* Design and Develop high performance web applications.
* Diagnose and resolve difficult problems in the configuration, tuning, and management of the HPC systems
* Research, evaluate, and develop new technologies
* Provide project management leadership and technical guidance to other team members
* Apply in-depth HPC and Linux expertise to collaborate with stakeholders across IT and domain disciplines to expand HPC use in support of world class, cutting-edge scientific research
* Oversees and contributes to the implementation of computer code for scientific software packages, both in individual assignments and in team efforts with multiple developers.
* Formulates code design specifications of scientific software packages using state-of-the-art programming languages.
* Analyzes, curates, and debugs codes written by other programmers and scientists.
* Redesigns the logic of codes written by other programmers and scientists.
* Evaluates, analyzes and integrates existing commercial and open-source software solutions with tailored in-house software solutions.
* Formulates data models and oversees their implementation in databases using state-of-the-art languages to access databases.
* Oversees the integration of scientific software packages with database solutions.
* Designs and evaluates user interfaces to scientific software packages.
* Designs and evaluates web- and app-interfaces to scientific software packages.
* Performs other duties as needed.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities


* Work requires proficiency in methods of software code design and implementation, using state-of-the-art programming languages.
* Work requires familiarity with database design and query, using state-of-the-art languages to access databases
* Work requires accuracy and exercise of considerable judgment.
* Work requires ability to identify and clarify for themselves and others individual responsibilities and objectives within the framework of the common goal.
* Work requires excellent communication skills within software developer teams.

Working Conditions

Security

This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code 51.215, which authorizes UT

Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information

Salary

Salary Negotiable

Work is performed in general office environment or lab.

* Research, evaluate, design, develop and lead BioHPC technical efforts in one or more areas of HPC technologies.


* Develop and implement innovative and complex solutions for HPC research, ensuring that upgrades and changes comply with established guidelines and processes.


* Lead group projects to implement and deploy new technologies and services; Diagnose and resolve difficult problems in the configuration, tuning, and management of the HPC systems.


* Provide project management leadership and technical guidance to other team members.


* Collaborate with stakeholders across IT and domain disciplines to expand HPC use in support of world class, cutting-edge scientific research.


* Oversees implementation of computer code for scientific software packages with multiple developers.


* Analyzes, curates, and debugs codes written by other programmers and scientists.


* Redesigns the logic of codes written by other programmers and scientists.


* Performs other duties as needed.



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