AI Research Support Engineer
Job No: 530580
Work Type: Staff Full-Time
Location: Main Campus (Gainesville, FL), Remote/Flexible
Categories: Information Technology
Department: 14500000 - IT-RC RESEARCH COMPUTING
Job Description
Classification Title:
Systems Admin/Programmer IV
Job Description:
UF Information Technology (UFIT) is seeking an intermediate- to expert-level Artificial Intelligence Research Support Engineer to join Research Computing, a unit within UFIT. Employment with UFIT provides an excellent opportunity to work with other dedicated employees focused on understanding and interpreting the technological needs of the University of Florida's innovative and inspirational community.
UF has been operating HiPerGator, for close to a decade. It has grown in power over the years and is currently ranked #51 in the November 2023 Top 500 list. It is the fastest supercomputer owned and operated by a university in the USA. HiPerGator has become a critical service for UF because of the growth of the community of researchers, faculty, students, and collaborators that UFRC serves not only in size but also in the breadth of research domains. The workloads running on HiPerGator cover a wide range of research disciplines, from physical science and engineering to medicine and drug discovery, as well as arts and humanities. The demand for HiPerGator's computing power to carry out Machine Learning research on large data sets has also dramatically increased with UF's AI Initiative and the recent success of AI methods such as Deep Learning in scientific research.
This position is responsible for advanced system administration tasks including building and supporting workflows for advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems and user support on complex, high-performance, and data-intensive computing resources operated by UF Research Computing in support of advanced scientific, engineering, and scholarly research. UF is a comprehensive university offering degrees and carrying out research across a spectrum of disciplines, such as medicine, physical science, engineering, agriculture, business, law, arts and humanity, and many more. Researchers constantly try new ideas and need a flexible and powerful computational and data management platform. This position is part of a team with diverse skills to meet the diverse needs of researchers. We are seeking people with various backgrounds who are excited to join the effort to help advance the university's research and education mission and are willing to learn new subjects and techniques as they carry out their jobs. The position will be required to design efficient workflows for researchers to use existing HiPerGator services and to design and develop new features or services with colleagues in RC according to a researcher's needs. There will be ample opportunity for training on the job in the new skills required for the diverse tasks.
We are seeking people who are looking for an exciting career in supporting research by world-class faculty and their students and collaborators in their quest to solve some of the problems facing the world today.
Research teams come to UFIT Research Computing with rich data sets and a set of questions, often formulated in general terms, and with models and software that require high-performance computer hardware. The position is required to help them navigate the technical hardware and software capabilities of HiPerGator to realize their research and education objectives.
Some key responsibilities and characteristics of this position are:
• Understand and explore the problem researchers intend to solve and develop effective workflows to run on HiPerGator towards a solution; these problems can come from a very diverse set of domains and each position may need to team up with colleagues in Research Computing with matching expertise and experience
• Design new features to existing services and new services to support a researcher's workflows and participate in the implementation in collaboration with colleagues in Research Computing
• Design, implement, test, and validate the proposed workflows with the researchers: this may involve scripting, programming, using the SLURM scheduler, and using software tools available on HiPerGator
• Explore, evaluate, and test software, operating systems, and applications on workstations in labs that are used for research and often interoperate with HiPerGator services
• Work with the training team, create training materials, and conduct training for the new features and services that are developed
About UF Information Technology
UF Information Technology is comprised of eight departments reporting to the Vice President and Chief Information Officer: Academic Technology; Applications, Development, and Integrations; Business Center; Customer Experience and Resource Planning; Data Platform and Analytics; Information Security Office; Infrastructure and Communication Technology; and Research Computing. With
Location: Gainesville, FL
Posted: Oct. 29, 2024, 4:07 a.m.
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