Description
Research Consultant, HPC Computational Scientist – Bioinformatics
 The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Office of Information Technology, High Performance and Scientific Computing Group
Market Range 13

Due to regulatory requirements the successful candidate(s) must be a U. S. citizen or legal permanent resident with a green card.

The Office of Information Technology at The University of Tennessee Knoxville seeks qualified applicants for an HPC Computational Scientist – Bioinformatics and the successful candidate will provide a key role in scientific computing support for users of the research cyberinfrastructure used to support the research mission of the University focusing on bioinformatics and related research including, but not limited to, analysis of datasets generated from various biological platforms with applications to genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, etc.  OIT operates computing resources and provides support to University researchers and their collaborators giving them the capability to investigate and solve cutting-edge and computationally challenging problems.  Under the guidance the Director, High Performance and Scientific Computing, this individual will have an in-depth knowledge of and support all aspects of scientific computing and will be part of a team that supports and manages centralized high performance computing resources, a secure research computing environment, and works with faculty and researchers to make effective use of the resources for research.

Qualifications
Major Duties/Responsibilities

The successful candidate will work closely with researchers to assist them in using the computational resources effectively and efficiently with a focus on bioinformatics and related researchers.  The position will work with users and collaborators to develop, port, and optimize scientific applications to work with the research cyberinfrastructure provided by OIT.   Responsibilities of this position includes, but is not limited to: work with and provide guidance to researchers to develop, port, and optimize scientific applications to work with the provided research cyberinfrastructure; consult with researchers on simulation, workflow and application design and development; support algorithm and application optimization; support future technology hardware and application benchmarking; provide parallel computing support; support researchers in selecting computer software and hardware to solve their research problems; provide advanced analysis and advanced problem solving to solve computational science problems; install and test scientific computing compilers, libraries, and tools; develop web-based documentation and training content; develop and teach workshops on best practices of using the research cyberinfrastructure including use of the resource management system to submit and monitor jobs, application optimization, and effective use of cpu, GPU, memory, and storage resources; provide technical support and user application and scientific computing support as needed; work with other OIT groups, such as, Networking Services, Help Desk, and Systems to support the continual, efficient, and effective use of the research cyberinfrastructure; work independently and prioritize assignments with minimal supervision, as a member of a team, and as a team leader.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

U. S. citizen or legal permanent resident with a green card.A Master's degree in Computer Science or other related scientific and/or engineering disciplineTwo years’ experience in support of bioinformatics research (including, but not limited to, genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics)Three years’ experience with one or more areas of numerical methods, data analytics, parallel algorithms, HPC software development, MPI, Fortran, or C/C++Three years’ experience with Linux in an HPC and/or research environmentThree years’ experience with supporting a scientific computing environment and installing applications, compilers, libraries, and toolsExcellent writing, communication, and interpersonal skillsThe ability to work independently and prioritize assignments with minimal supervision, as a member of a team, and as a team leaderExperience being responsive to researcher inquiries while handling these requests with courtesy and professionalism

Desired Qualifications:

Ph. D. in Computational Science or in a scientific and/or engineering discipline is preferredExperience in working with computationally challenging science and bioinformatics approaches, algorithms, and toolsUse and/or experience with genome-based systems biology tools and applications available for network analysis, pathway construction, genome alignments, assemblies, tree viewers and phylogenies, microarray and RNA-Seq viewers, genome browsers, visualization tools for comparative genomics, and tools for building visual prototypes.Teaching and/or workshop development experienceExperience with job submission and monitoring with SLURM and/or Open OnDemand and/or Jupyter NotebooksExperience with genomic data analysisExperience with one or more of the following post sequencing workflow tasks: data cleaning, filtering, assembly, alignment (de novo or reference-based), variant calling, annotation and functional predictionsExperience with one or more of Hadoop, Apache Spark, Python, and Tensorflow

UTK is an EEO/AA/Title VI/Title IX/Section 504/ADA/ADEA Employer.

Job: Research Professional
Primary Location: US-Tennessee-knoxville
Organization: Vc Info Infrastructure # Oit General
Schedule: Full-time
Job Posting: Jan 19, 2023, 11:19:41 AM