HPC Application Specialist - Center for Research Computing

and research and to advancing cooperation and progress on humanity?s shared challenges. Drawing on the strengths of the NYU global network, it offers an outstanding liberal arts and sciences education to students from the United Arab Emirates, the United States, and around the world, with a distinctive focus on intercultural understanding and leadership. It supports innovative research and graduate education programs that push forward the frontiers of knowledge and respond in powerful and interdisciplinary ways to vital global and local challenges. Position Summary Applications are welcome from all qualified candidates. In line with UAE regulations, Emirati candidates are encouraged to apply. New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) seeks to appoint an HPC Application Specialist reporting to the Research Computational Scientist III. 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: Support users on a day-to-day basis 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, and tutorials for the users. Manage the wiki and website Contribute to research projects with HPC technical expertise Monitor HPC resource utilization and generate utilization reports Proactively ensure that users are kept up to date on the system status and any downtime that would impact the users Maintain up-to-date knowledge of software and HPC resource capabilities including continuing study and attending seminars and conferences Required Education: Bachelor's Degree in science or engineering Preferred Education: Master's Degree in science or engineering Computer languages Linux & operating systems Computer architectures Required Experience: 3+ years experience with HPC user support 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 Preferred Experience: 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 Other Information About NYUAD NYU Abu Dhabi is a degree-granting research university with a fully integrated liberal arts and science undergraduate program in the Arts, Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Engineering. NYU Abu Dhabi, NYU New York, and NYU Shanghai, form the backbone of NYU’s global network university, an interconnected network of portal campuses and academic centers across six continents that enable seamless international mobility of students and faculty in their pursuit of academic and scholarly activity. This global university represents a transformative shift in higher education, one in which the intellectual and creative endeavors of academia are shaped and examined through an international and multicultural perspective. As a major intellectual hub at the crossroads of the Arab world, NYUAD serves as a center for scholarly thought, advanced research, knowledge creation, and sharing, through its academic, research, and creative activities.