Computational Scientist

Boston, NH - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 86490 - 122163

Posted on: 14 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About the Opportunity

Job Summary:
The Research Computing (RC) team at Northeastern University (NU) seeks a motivated self-starting individual to be a member of our dynamic team as a Computational Scientist. The successful candidate will be a key link between the RC team and the research community at NU including faculty and students across a broad range of departments as well as outside users and partners to help them leverage RC resources for their research and teaching.

As a Computational Scientist at NU your primary objective will be to support and enhance the research enterprise through direct interaction with faculty and students. You will assist research groups in taking full advantage of Discovery NUs high performance computing (HPC) cluster installed at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC). You will help with optimization of code and utilization of scheduler features to maximize throughput of addition you will work with research groups to help identify implement and improve their computational workflow as well as assist in facilitating scientific computing solutions specific to NU researchers. As a PhD level scientist you will also participate in grant funding opportunities author research papers and presentations with NUs faculty members carry out independent research at RC and supervise student staff as needed.

Minimum Qualifications

Requirements

Ph.D. in science (chemistry physics biology etc.) or engineering required
7 years of experience in computational physics or related area
Proven experience coding in C/C Fortran and/or Python
Proven experience with multiple parallel programming paradigms including but not limited to; MPI OpenMP and CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture)
Experience in a batch HPC environment with a parallel file system using Slurm
Experience working with researchers students and scientific workflows
Experience with instrumenting optimizing and implementing application codes
Excellent interpersonal communication skills
Ability and willingness to learn new technologies and remain current with developing trends in the scientific computing community
Demonstrated strong writing skills with an ability to document and communicate solutions to users clearly
Desire for continuous self-improvement and maintenance of skills through training workshops and/or conferences
Self-starter with a proven track-record for formulating strategy to solve problems based on user requirements
Ability to prioritize multiple projects and work-streams in a fast-paced environment

Preferred Qualifications

Postdoctoral or industry equivalent work at a computing facility or using/managing HPC resources
Experience working with large scale machine learning models
Experience with performance optimization debugging and checkpointing on massively parallel &/or high throughput codes with tools such as HPCToolkit Vampir GDB Intel VTune and DMTCP.
Experience installing and supporting bio and chemistry codes such as NAMD GAMESS NWChem QBox Quantum Espresso Gaussian GROMACS LAMMPS etc.
Strong publication record in their area of expertise

Position Type

Research

Additional Information

Northeastern University considers factors such as candidate work experience education and skills when extending an offer.

Northeastern has a comprehensive benefits package for benefit eligible employees. This includes medical vision dental paid time off tuition assistance wellness & life retirement- as well as commuting & transportation. Visit for more information.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race religion color national origin age sex sexual orientation disability status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Compensation Grade/Pay Type:

111S

Expected Hiring Range:

$86490.00 - $122163.75

With the pay range(s) shown above the starting salary will depend on several factors which may include your education experience location knowledge and expertise and skills as well as a pay comparison to similarly-situated employees already in the role. Salary ranges are reviewed regularly and are subject to change.

Required Experience:

About the OpportunityJob Summary:The Research Computing (RC) team at Northeastern University (NU) seeks a motivated self-starting individual to be a member of our dynamic team as a Computational Scientist. The successful candidate will be a key link between the RC team and the research community at ...