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Current Open Positions
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Postdoctoral Research Associate – Advanced Computing for Chemistry and Materials CCSD
The Advanced Computing for Chemistry and Materials group is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to perform leading-edge computational materials research and development. The role will focus on the development, efficient parallel implementation, and application of first principles methods to multiscale modeling of advanced materials. The scientific effort will focus on modeling nanomaterials, phase-transformations, and microstructure evolution in materials with applications in energy, manufacturing, and electronics.
Postdoctoral Research Associate – Advanced Computing for Chemistry and Materials
The Advanced Computing for Chemistry and Materials group is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to perform leading-edge computational chemistry/materials research and development for applications in the energy sciences and biophysics. The successful candidate will be mentored and teamed with staff in the National Center for Computational Sciences.
Senior HPC Linux Clusters Engineer
The National Center for Computational Sciences is hiring a Senior HPC Linux Clusters Engineer to support numerous activities of the center. Major duties of this role include defining and implementing best practices within the organization; automating systems administration tasks using open-source configuration management tools; and assist with designing, building, and maintaining HPC Linux systems.
DevOps Engineer
The HPC Clusters Group is seeking a DevOps Engineer to play a key role in improving the security, performance, and reliability of the NCCS computing environments. The HPC Clusters group administers and supports the division's HPC computing infrastructure, which includes system installation, deployment, acceptance, performance testing, upgrades, problem diagnosis, and troubleshooting.
Group Leader, Advanced Computing for Chemistry and Materials
The National Center for Computational Sciences is seeking a Group Leader for the Advanced Computing for Chemistry and Materials group within the Science Engagement section. This role provides Research and Development leadership to a group of chemistry and materials science researchers with the primary goal of pursuing global scientific leadership in these fields, nurtures ORNL's culture among group members, and continues to build and scale up individual excellence and impact in R&D.
HPC Engineer – System Acceptance & User Environment
The National Center for Computational Sciences is seeking an HPC Engineer to support the System Acceptance and User Environment Group. This group ensures the functionality, performance, and usability of new NCCS systems through activities as test development, acceptance, software installation, documentation, and early user support for all NCCS pre-production systems.
Senior Research Scientist – HPC Performance Engineering
The National Center for Computational Sciences is hiring a Senior Computer Scientist, Applied Mathematician, or Computational Scientist specializing in performance analysis and optimization of HPC software to join the Algorithms and Performance Analysis Group.
HPC Storage Systems Engineer, Clusters Group
The HPC Clusters Group is hiring an HPC Storage Systems Engineer to play a key role in improving the security, performance, and reliability of the NCCS computing environments.
Machine Learning Data Engineer
The Analytics and AI Methods at Scale Group is seeking a Machine Learning Data Engineer for the broad area of AI fr science projects. Research and development activities include scientific data collection, transformation, feature engineering, and large-scale natural modeling and understanding.
Postdoctoral Research Associate – Advanced Computing for Chemistry and Materials
The Advanced Computing for Chemistry and Materials group is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate. The role will involve development, efficient parallel and GPU-enabled implementation and application of novel artificial intelligence and machine learning methods to model interactions in liquids and at interfaces.
Full Stack Software Developer – Analytics and AI Methods at Scale
The Analytics and AI Methods at Scale (AAIMS) group is seeking a Full Stack Software Developer to work with staff scientists to design and develop scalable data pipeline and web-based interactive visual analytic applications to drive toward operational intelligence.
Senior HPC Linux Systems Engineer, Infrastructure and Networking
The HPC Infrastructure and Networking group is seeking a Senior HPC Linux Systems Engineer to support all activities of the supercomputer center.
HPC Storage Systems Engineer, Technical Staff Member
The HPC Storage and Archive Group is seeking a Storage Systems Engineer to play a key role in the administration and support of massive parallel distributed filesystems, along with the accompanying storage subsystems and underlying Infiniband and Fibre-channel based SAN infrastructure.
HPC Storage Systems Engineer, Associate Technical Staff Member
The HPC Storage and Archive Group is seeking a Storage Systems Engineer to play a key role in the administration and support of massive parallel distributed filesystems, along with the accompanying storage subsystems and underlying Infiniband and Fibre-channel based SAN infrastructure.
Edge Computing Software Engineer
The Technology Integration group is looking for an Edge Computing Software Engineer to develop software, tools, and infrastructure to help tie scientific instruments to edge computing systems.
Full Stack Software Developer – Data Lifecycle and Scalable Workflows
The Data Lifecycle and Scalable Workflows Group is seeking a Full Stack Software Developer to add to our team. In this role, you will provide products and services for scientific data management at leadership-class scale.
Senior Research Scientist, HPC and AI
The Analytics and AI Methods at Scale group is seeking senior and distinguished research scientist in the broad areas of High-Performance Computing and AI and their intersection.
Lead Full Stack Software Developer
The Data Lifecycle and Scalable Workflows Group is seeking a Full Stack Software Developer to provide products and services for scientific data management at leadership-class scale. The ideal candidate is a full-stack developer that is comfortable working across multiple technologies.