University of Wisconsin–Madison
CoE Research Computing Lead
University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, us, 53774
Job Summary:The College of Engineering at UW-Madison seeks a research computing lead to expand both our research computing services, and to help researchers access those services quickly and efficiently. This position will help define the technical services needed to support researchers, consult on scientific computing needs, advocate for campus-level computing services on behalf of our researchers, as well as lead a team supporting research computing. This position will be expected to perform the following tasks as a part of their responsibilities: 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.
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.
40% Engages with researchers in their selection and use of relevant CI services, systems, tools, and computing strategies. Leverages an understanding of specific research activities and their use of CI solutions to serve as a liaison between research projects and collaborators. Recommends enhancements to workflows, software, and tools, and provides in-depth consultation to research projects in cooperation with supervised staff.
20% Connects and coordinates interactions between researchers and technology providers. Provides regular communications to and leads collaborations with systems and software/data professionals on the design of service enhancements.
10% Contributes to the design and content development of documentation and advanced curricula, and instructs at workshops for researchers to maximize their use of CI. Serves as a subject matter expert for trainings relevant to specific areas of science domain and technology, software, or tools.
5% Communicates with internal and external collaborators around facilitation and service models. Contributes to research CI community best practices documentation, presents at conferences, and/or publishes in peer reviewed journals.
10% Provides consultation and expertise for research proposals. May serve as Co-Principal Investigator for a research proposal or Principal Investigator on proposals around facilitation functions.
5% Provides regular communications to researchers and other internal and external stakeholders. May advise institutional or divisional leadership on research CI topics.
10% Contributes to monitoring of staff performance goals.
Institutional Statement on Diversity:Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.
Education:Required:Bachelor's Degree (STEM preferred)Preferred:Master's Degree (STEM preferred)
Qualifications:Required:
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 experience in one or more of the following:
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.
Work Type:Full Time: 100%It is anticipated this position requires work be performed in-person, onsite, at a designated campus work location.
Appointment Type, Duration:Ongoing/Renewable
Salary:Minimum:
$96,000 ANNUAL (12 months)Depending on QualificationsEmployees in this position can expect to receive benefits such as generous vacation, holidays, and paid time off; competitive insurances and savings accounts; retirement benefits. Benefits information can be found at
https://hr.wisc.edu/benefits/
How to Apply:Please click on the "Apply Now" button to start the application process. Applicants will be asked to upload a resume and cover letter outlining relevant qualifications and experience as it pertains to the required and preferred qualifications outlined in this job posting.
Contact:Rob Kohlhepprob.kohlhepp@wisc.edu608-263-7674Relay Access (WTRS): 7-1-1. See RELAY_SERVICE for further information.
Official Title:Research CI Facilitator III(RE079)
Department(s):A19-COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING/COMPUTER AIDED ENGR
Employment Class:Academic Staff-Renewable
Job Number:303638-AS
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, including but not limited to, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, disability, or status as a protected veteran and other bases as defined by federal regulations and UW System policies. We promote excellence through diversity and encourage all qualified individuals to apply.
Employment may require a criminal background check. It may also require you and your references to answer questions regarding sexual violence and sexual harassment.
The University of Wisconsin System will not reveal the identities of applicants who request confidentiality in writing, except that the identity of the successful candidate will be released. See Wis. Stat. sec. 19.36(7).
The Annual Security and Fire Safety Report contains current campus safety and disciplinary policies, crime statistics for the previous 3 calendar years, and on-campus student housing fire safety policies and fire statistics for the previous 3 calendar years. UW-Madison will provide a paper copy upon request; please contact the University of Wisconsin Police Department.
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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.
40% Engages with researchers in their selection and use of relevant CI services, systems, tools, and computing strategies. Leverages an understanding of specific research activities and their use of CI solutions to serve as a liaison between research projects and collaborators. Recommends enhancements to workflows, software, and tools, and provides in-depth consultation to research projects in cooperation with supervised staff.
20% Connects and coordinates interactions between researchers and technology providers. Provides regular communications to and leads collaborations with systems and software/data professionals on the design of service enhancements.
10% Contributes to the design and content development of documentation and advanced curricula, and instructs at workshops for researchers to maximize their use of CI. Serves as a subject matter expert for trainings relevant to specific areas of science domain and technology, software, or tools.
5% Communicates with internal and external collaborators around facilitation and service models. Contributes to research CI community best practices documentation, presents at conferences, and/or publishes in peer reviewed journals.
10% Provides consultation and expertise for research proposals. May serve as Co-Principal Investigator for a research proposal or Principal Investigator on proposals around facilitation functions.
5% Provides regular communications to researchers and other internal and external stakeholders. May advise institutional or divisional leadership on research CI topics.
10% Contributes to monitoring of staff performance goals.
Institutional Statement on Diversity:Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.
Education:Required:Bachelor's Degree (STEM preferred)Preferred:Master's Degree (STEM preferred)
Qualifications:Required:
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 experience in one or more of the following:
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.
Work Type:Full Time: 100%It is anticipated this position requires work be performed in-person, onsite, at a designated campus work location.
Appointment Type, Duration:Ongoing/Renewable
Salary:Minimum:
$96,000 ANNUAL (12 months)Depending on QualificationsEmployees in this position can expect to receive benefits such as generous vacation, holidays, and paid time off; competitive insurances and savings accounts; retirement benefits. Benefits information can be found at
https://hr.wisc.edu/benefits/
How to Apply:Please click on the "Apply Now" button to start the application process. Applicants will be asked to upload a resume and cover letter outlining relevant qualifications and experience as it pertains to the required and preferred qualifications outlined in this job posting.
Contact:Rob Kohlhepprob.kohlhepp@wisc.edu608-263-7674Relay Access (WTRS): 7-1-1. See RELAY_SERVICE for further information.
Official Title:Research CI Facilitator III(RE079)
Department(s):A19-COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING/COMPUTER AIDED ENGR
Employment Class:Academic Staff-Renewable
Job Number:303638-AS
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, including but not limited to, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, disability, or status as a protected veteran and other bases as defined by federal regulations and UW System policies. We promote excellence through diversity and encourage all qualified individuals to apply.
Employment may require a criminal background check. It may also require you and your references to answer questions regarding sexual violence and sexual harassment.
The University of Wisconsin System will not reveal the identities of applicants who request confidentiality in writing, except that the identity of the successful candidate will be released. See Wis. Stat. sec. 19.36(7).
The Annual Security and Fire Safety Report contains current campus safety and disciplinary policies, crime statistics for the previous 3 calendar years, and on-campus student housing fire safety policies and fire statistics for the previous 3 calendar years. UW-Madison will provide a paper copy upon request; please contact the University of Wisconsin Police Department.
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