Position available at New York University - Abu Dhabi campus

HPC Application Specialist - Center for Research Computing (Fixed-Term for 3 Years) 

New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) seeks to appoint a HPC Application Specialist, reporting to the Senior Director, Center for Research Computing. The HPC Application Specialist will work as part of a team to provide researchers and faculty with user support, training, day-to-day assistance for the installation and configuration of HPC and data intensive applications and occasionally collaborate with researchers where the candidate’s expertise can contribute to a project’s success.

Key Responsibilities:

• Day-to-day user support including Installing, Compiling and debugging research applications and provide documentation
• Respond and address all user requests, questions and queries received via the ticketing system, email, phone or face-to-face
• Provide user training, develop and maintain training material, how-tos and tutorials for the users. Manage the wiki and website
• Monitor HPC resource utilization and generate utilization reports
• Proactively insure that users are kept up to date on the system status and any downtime that would impact the users
• Contribute to research projects with HPC technical expertise
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of software and HPC resource capabilities including continuing study and attending seminars and conferences

Required Education:

• Bachelor’s with a minimum of 3 years’ experience or Master’s degree in Science or Engineering
• Proficient in programming, and/ or scientific applications

Preferred Education:

• Computer languages
• Linux & operating systems
• Computer architecture

Required Experience:

• Experience in installing applications and tools in scientific computing environments
• Programming skills in the “C” or Fortran languages
• Programming skills with scripting languages (e.g., Unix shell, Python, or Perl)
• Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Presentation and documentation writing skills
• Strong communication, interpersonal and analytical skills

Preferred Experience:

• Experience with HPC user support
• Experience with standard scientific software (ex. MATLAB, MATHEMATICA)
• Experience with HPC resource managers (e.g., Slurm, LSF, PBS, SGE)
• Knowledge in Linux system administration
• Knowledge in MPI and/or OpenMP
• Knowledge in Cuda programming and applications (e.g., PyTorch, Tensor Flow)
• Knowledge in version control systems (e.g., Git, SVN, CVS, RCS)
• Knowledge in Web content management

Please apply at NYU Abu Dhabi.