Stanford Research Computing Center | Stanford, CA (next to Palo Alto) | Full-time | Three positions | HYBRID
The Stanford Research Computing Center (https://srcc.stanford.edu) is part of Stanford University. We are part of University IT, and have a dotted-line reporting relationship to the Vice Provost and Dean of Research. Our group does lots of stuff: We operate HPC environments for researchers, we do one-time consultations on projects (from software and pipelines, to data management, to physical building design and fit-out), and we provide contract support for individual Labs, Departments, and Schools.
We have three open sysadmin positions, all of which are in the 'contract support' part of the group.
• Research Computing Systems Specialist, Graduate School of Business: The GSB's Data, Analysis, and Research Computing (DARC) team provides a lot of direct support to GSB researchers (Faculty, Graduate students, etc.), and they rely on us to provide additional support, and to run their bespoke compute environment.
Keywords: Julia, Python, R, SAS, Stata, JupyterHub, RStudio, and MATLAB. You'll be working with one of my existing coworkers, who (among other things) maintains GSB's systems; the workload has grown to the point where we are opening a new position!
• Research Computing Systems Specialist, SDSS: The Doerr School of Sustainability is one of our largest clients. They use our primary research cluster (Sherlock); and they also have their own cluster, which you'll be responsible for. Compared to the GSB position, you'll have a lot more contact with folks in SDSS.
Keywords: Python, C, Fortran, MPI, and large jobs. You'll be working with our in-group SME, and the two sysadmins who run Sherlock.
• Stanford CryoEM Center (cEMc) Computational Resources and Data Management Specialist: Within the School of Medicine, this is a new Center, providing cryoEM equipment and services to researchers. cEMc is looking for someone who ideally has both cryoEM and Linux experience, who can advise researchers on their workflows and pipelines. You'll be a bridge between the researchers and us, helping to design workflows and pipelines that automate things as much as possible, within the limits of a shared HPC environment.
All of these cases involve working in HPC. All three positions involve working with the x64 Linux machines (either CentOS or Ubuntu). It would be great if you knew about SLURM (our job scheduler), but that's not required. For the SDSS position, it would also help if you knew MPI, as many SDSS workloads use that for inter-node communication and shared memory.
All three positions are hybrid: You can expect to be on-campus at least two or three days per week. If you don't already live in the Bay Area, I believe we do provide a relocation incentive. Depending on where you live, we provide free transit passes. Unfortunately, if you don't commute, you will have to pay for parking for the days you're on-site. Work benefits are all publicly documented at https://cardinalatwork.stanford.edu/benefits-rewards. We always get two weeks off around Christmas, through you'll have to spend one or two days on-call.
The Stanford Research Computing Center (https://srcc.stanford.edu) is part of Stanford University. We are part of University IT, and have a dotted-line reporting relationship to the Vice Provost and Dean of Research. Our group does lots of stuff: We operate HPC environments for researchers, we do one-time consultations on projects (from software and pipelines, to data management, to physical building design and fit-out), and we provide contract support for individual Labs, Departments, and Schools.
We have three open sysadmin positions, all of which are in the 'contract support' part of the group.
• Research Computing Systems Specialist, Graduate School of Business: The GSB's Data, Analysis, and Research Computing (DARC) team provides a lot of direct support to GSB researchers (Faculty, Graduate students, etc.), and they rely on us to provide additional support, and to run their bespoke compute environment.
Keywords: Julia, Python, R, SAS, Stata, JupyterHub, RStudio, and MATLAB. You'll be working with one of my existing coworkers, who (among other things) maintains GSB's systems; the workload has grown to the point where we are opening a new position!
• Research Computing Systems Specialist, SDSS: The Doerr School of Sustainability is one of our largest clients. They use our primary research cluster (Sherlock); and they also have their own cluster, which you'll be responsible for. Compared to the GSB position, you'll have a lot more contact with folks in SDSS.
Keywords: Python, C, Fortran, MPI, and large jobs. You'll be working with our in-group SME, and the two sysadmins who run Sherlock.
• Stanford CryoEM Center (cEMc) Computational Resources and Data Management Specialist: Within the School of Medicine, this is a new Center, providing cryoEM equipment and services to researchers. cEMc is looking for someone who ideally has both cryoEM and Linux experience, who can advise researchers on their workflows and pipelines. You'll be a bridge between the researchers and us, helping to design workflows and pipelines that automate things as much as possible, within the limits of a shared HPC environment.
All of these cases involve working in HPC. All three positions involve working with the x64 Linux machines (either CentOS or Ubuntu). It would be great if you knew about SLURM (our job scheduler), but that's not required. For the SDSS position, it would also help if you knew MPI, as many SDSS workloads use that for inter-node communication and shared memory.
All three positions are hybrid: You can expect to be on-campus at least two or three days per week. If you don't already live in the Bay Area, I believe we do provide a relocation incentive. Depending on where you live, we provide free transit passes. Unfortunately, if you don't commute, you will have to pay for parking for the days you're on-site. Work benefits are all publicly documented at https://cardinalatwork.stanford.edu/benefits-rewards. We always get two weeks off around Christmas, through you'll have to spend one or two days on-call.
Here are the links to apply:
• GSB position: http://m.rfer.us/STANFORDBtKL8j
• SDSS position: http://m.rfer.us/STANFORD66NL8g (more experienced) or http://m.rfer.us/STANFORDgV4L8h (less experienced)
• cEMc position: http://m.rfer.us/STANFORDPw3L8i
If you have questions, feel free to reply here or email me (the info is in my profile).