Senior Computational Scientist-Radiology

As a member of the MSSM Scientific Computing Group, the Senior Computational Scientist partners and leads projects with other scientists and researchers to plan joint scientific projects that will effectively use MSSM HPC (high performance computing) clusters, data science tools and other modern computational and data science techniques. This individual researches scientific approaches and decides on the path forward for new applications and technologies. The incumbent is a customer-focused leader who sets a positive, productive and courteous tone for the Scientific Computing group and operates under little to no supervision.

1. Partners directly with scientific and research staff to lead projects to efficiently and effectively use MSSM HPC clusters and other modern data science tools and infrastructure.

2. Improves researcher productivity through highly optimized computational and data workflows.

3. Leads the research, analysis and deployment of new applications and other technologies such as GPUs, Hadoop and cloud computing.

4. Troubleshoots, isolates and resolves technical issues as the most senior level of support.

5. Coordinates and leads benchmarking efforts.

6. Evaluates and approves application programming environments.

7. Oversees the installation infrastructure and management of numerical libraries and application performance tools.

8. Leads effort to develop a needs requirements and define and deploy a comprehensive computational and data vision for MSSM researchers.

9. Provides the highest level of courteous, productive and team-based interaction with not only the HPC team but also with the partner scientists.

10. Trains Associate Computational Scientists and Computational Scientists.

11. Conducts user surveys and assists with the allocations processs.

12. Writes, publishes and presents papers at national and international conferences.

13. Assists in developing and writing proposals. Creates and provides clear documentation on all items.

14. Other relevant duties as assigned.

• Ph.D. in a scientific domain required.
• 7+ years (higher preferred) in a scientific/academic computing environment.
• Experience in batch scientific computing HPC cluster environment with a parallel file system.
• Experience installing and supporting bio, genomics and chemistry codes (NAMD, AMBER, Matlab, Gromacs, DESMOND).
• Experience with MPI, OpenMP and numerical libraries.
• Experience with scientific workflows.
• Experience with GPUs.
• Experience with data science, containers and cloud environments.
• Experience with instrumenting and optimizing application codes.
• Experience in an academic or research community environment.
• Programming experience in any applicable language.

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The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:  

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization.  We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally.

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