AI Research Support Engineer
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Systems Admin/Programmer IV
UF Information Technology (UFIT) is seeking an intermediate to expertlevel 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 Floridas 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 HiPerGators computing power to carry out Machine Learning research on large data sets has also dramatically increased with UFs 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 highperformance and dataintensive 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 universitys 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 researchers 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 worldclass 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 highperformance 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 researchers 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 established governance advisory committees and a set of welldefined transparent processes aiding decisionmaking UFIT strives to provide exceptional IT services in support of UFs more information about UFIT and its goals and governance visithttp:// more about UFIT at and @GoGatorsUFIT.
About the University of Florida
The University of Florida (UF) is the states oldest largest and most comprehensive land grant university with an enrollment of over 50000 students. UF ranks 6th among public universities nationally (US News and World Report 2023 and 1st among public institutions in the Wall Street Journal 2023 survey. UF is in Gainesville a city of approximately 150000 residents in NorthCentral Florida 50 miles from the Gulf of Mexico 67 miles from the Atlantic Ocean and within a 2hour drive to major cities like Orlando Tampa and Jacksonville. The beautiful climate and extensive nearby parks and recreational areas afford yearround outdoor activities including hiking biking and nature photography. UFs large college sports programs museums and performing arts center support a range of activities and cultural events for residents to enjoy. Alachua County schools are highly rated and offer a variety of programs including magnet schools and an international baccalaureate program. Learn more about what Gainesville has to offer atVisit Gainesville.
Fulltime TEAMS employees will accrue vacation leave at a rate of 6.769 hours biweekly/22 days annually and sick leave at 4 hours biweekly/13 days annually. In addition employees are eligible for 10n paid holidays each year.
Vacationaccruing TEAMS employees are eligible for four personal leave days/32 hours per year assuming fulltime status and are intended to give the flexibility to enable units to close during the December holiday closing when possible determined on a unitbyunit basis.
In addition to paid time off the University of Florida offers a very competitive benefits package.
Level III $70000 $90000; Level IV $80000 $100000; Commensurate based on education and experience.
Level III:Bachelors degree in an appropriate area and two years of relevant experience; or a high school diploma or equivalent and six years of experience. Appropriate college coursework or vocational/technical training may substitute at an equivalent rate for the required experience.
Level IV:Bachelors degree in an appropriate area and four years of relevant experience; or a high school diploma or equivalent and eight years of relevant experience. Appropriate college coursework may substitute at an equivalent rate for the required experience.
The ideal candidate will possess the following education experience and skills:
- Bachelors or Associates degree in any scholarly domain: science technology engineering arts or mathematics (STEAM)
- Experience: A variant of Linux ideally RedHat Enterprise Linux or CentOS Linux; Building complex workflows such as common in gene sequencing and machine learning; Parallel programming for shared memory (threads OpenMP) and distributed memory (MPI CUDA); Programming experience in scripting languages such as bash Perl Python and in compiled languages FORTRAN and C/C; Resource schedulers such as Kubernetes or Slurm; Contemporary workflow management systems such as Nextflow or Snakemake; Contemporary web application frameworks deployment and CI
- Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills outstanding communicator; interpersonal skills; and the ability to work collegially and interact effectively with a diverse constituency; can explain highly technical subjects to people without that particular technical background; Excellent organizational skills and an ability to prioritize and complete simultaneous projects with minimal supervision; Accuracy attention to detail and a customer serviceoriented approach and mindset
- Abilities: Work collaboratively and build strategic relationships with both other IT staff on campus and with faculty and their collaborators. Think critically and creatively have a high standard of integrity and be motivated to incorporate best practices into the organizational structure
- Provide excellent service through professional and courteous interactions with internal and external stakeholders while meeting business needs
- Can thrive in a fastpaced customerfocused critical production support and development environment
- An appreciation for and support of diversity in the workplace in all its forms
The final candidate must be able to pass a Level 2 Background Check.
This position will be based in one of our Gainesville offices and may include a hybrid schedule of 3 days in the office (Wednesday required) and 2 days remote.
Applicants are required to submit the following with their application:
- Cover Letter
- Resume or CV
- Professional References (Minimum of 3
The application must be submitted by 11:55 p.m. of the posting end date.
Employment Type
Full-Time
