HPC Application Specialist - Center for Research Computing

NYU Abu Dhabi is pioneering a new model of higher education for a global world, dedicated to excellence in teaching and research and to advancing cooperation and progress on humanity?s shared challenges. Drawing on the strengths of the NYU global network, it offers an outstanding liberal arts and sciences education to students from the United Arab Emirates, the United
States, and around the world, with a distinctive focus on intercultural understanding and leadership. It supports innovative research and graduate education programs that push forward the frontiers of knowledge and respond in powerful and interdisciplinary ways to vital global and local challenges.

Position Summary

Applications are welcome from all qualified candidates. In line with UAE regulations, Emirati candidates are encouraged to apply.

New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) seeks to appoint an HPC
Application Specialist reporting to the Research Computational
Scientist III.

The HPC Application Specialist will work as part of a team to provide researchers and faculty with user support, training, day-to-day assistance for the installation and configuration of HPC and data intensive applications and occasionally collaborate with researchers where the candidate’s expertise can contribute to a project’s success.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support users on a day-to-day basis including installing,

compiling and debugging research applications and provide documentation

• Respond and address all user requests, questions and queries

received via the ticketing system, email, phone or face-to-face

• Provide user training, develop and maintain training material,

and tutorials for the users. Manage the wiki and website

• Contribute to research projects with HPC technical

expertise

• Monitor HPC resource utilization and generate utilization

reports

• Proactively ensure that users are kept up to date on the system

status and any downtime that would impact the users

• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of software and HPC resource

capabilities including continuing study and attending seminars and conferences

Required Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in science or engineering

Preferred Education:

• Master's Degree in science or engineering
• Computer languages
• Linux & operating systems
• Computer architectures

Required Experience:

• 3+ years experience with HPC user support
• Knowledge in MPI and/or OpenMP
• Knowledge in CUDA programming and applications (e.g., PyTorch,

Tensor Flow)

• Knowledge in version control systems (e.g., Git, SVN, CVS,

RCS)

• Knowledge in Web content management

Preferred Experience:

• Knowledge in Linux system administration
• Knowledge in MPI and/or OpenMP
• Knowledge in CUDA programming and applications (e.g., PyTorch,

Tensor Flow)

• Knowledge in version control systems (e.g., Git, SVN, CVS,

RCS)

• Knowledge in Web content management

Other Information About NYUAD

NYU Abu Dhabi is a degree-granting research university with a fully integrated liberal arts and science undergraduate program in the
Arts, Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Engineering. NYU
Abu Dhabi, NYU New York, and NYU Shanghai, form the backbone of
NYU’s global network university, an interconnected network of portal campuses and academic centers across six continents that enable seamless international mobility of students and faculty in their pursuit of academic and scholarly activity. This global university represents a transformative shift in higher education, one in which the intellectual and creative endeavors of academia are shaped and examined through an international and multicultural perspective. As a major intellectual hub at the crossroads of the
Arab world, NYUAD serves as a center for scholarly thought, advanced research, knowledge creation, and sharing, through its academic, research, and creative activities.