Position Summary:
This position will lead research computing efforts in the College of Engineering at UW-Madison. We are growing our services to support researcher needs in computing, storage, consulting, and more. We are hoping that you can work with researchers to help them find the best existing resources, advocate for improvements, and document new service offerings intended for the College of Engineering’s research community. The person in this position will also connect with similar individuals across around the UW-Madison campus to understand the broader research computing landscape and help better leverage resources and services outside the college.
Responsibilities:
Advises researchers in the best use of various state-of-the-art cyber infrastructure (CI) systems, tools, and software to enable research productivity. Partners with facilitators and researchers to co-create and co-learn research activities and relevant advanced computing and data capabilities both locally and nationally. Coordinates projects with technical teams to ensure delivery and improvement of research CI services, contributes to strategy for engaging with faculty research groups and building facilitation capacities, and participates in cross-functional management teams and projects. Informs partnerships with other technology groups, internal and external, and contributes to communication with stakeholders.
- Organize and document our research computing services
- Gather information from researchers on their selection and use of relevant computing services, systems, tools, and computing strategies
- Advise researchers on optimal use of research computing resources
- Translate researchers needs into recommendations to technical staff for new research services or refinement of existing services
- Coordinate with other researcher computing providers and facilitators to improve research computing in the college and at campus-level
- Document, train on, and demonstrate research computing services
- Frame and draft operating principles and policies to promote equitable, reliable, secure, and scalable research computing services
Required qualifications:
- Two years of experience in research computing facilitation or research experience in a compute-intensive area
- Experience with documenting and/or providing workshops on effective ways to integrate compute into research
- Demonstrated strong oral and written communication skills, with attention to interpersonal relationships and professionalism.
- Demonstrated interest and prior experience in enabling the work of others.
Experience in one or more of the following:- Facilitate research compute models with science work
- Advising researchers on appropriate data management
- Framing technology solutions that are informed by researcher input
Preferred qualifications:
- Significant experience with applications of computing for research purposes (e.g. machine learning, bioinformatics, parallel computing techniques)
- Prior usage of large scale, batch computing systems
- Familiarity with higher education research computing centers/services or the OSG Consortium
- Significant experience and demonstrated interest in education, curriculum development, mentoring, consulting, community-building and/or formal communication activities
- Demonstrated experience participating in a research lab environment leveraging computing models and systems