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The Center for Computational Research (CCR) at the University at Buffalo (UB) is seeking applicants for a Senior Research Support Specialist to act as a research computing and data science (RCD) facilitator, enhancing the technical assistance provided by the CCR technical team to faculty, staff, students, and external customers of the University’s research computing facilities. In the role of RCD facilitator, you will be an integral part of the research computing team charged with providing advanced computing assistance to UB researchers. You will assist researchers and customers with accessing CCR’s clusters, writing batch scripts, utilizing various storage options, installing software, and implementing computational workflows. You will also assist with the development of documentation and training for research groups and classes. In this researcher-facing role, you will act as a liaison between the CCR technical team and the faculty and external customers that utilize CCR’s resources; translating technical concepts to non-technical people and expressing pressing research needs to the CCR systems team. This position offers opportunities to conduct research, participate on funding proposals, attend research conferences, publish scientific papers, contribute to open source software projects, and mentor students.

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Working at UB comes with benefits that exceed salary alone. There are personal rewards including comprehensive health and retirement plan options. We also focus on creating and sustaining a healthy mix of work, personal and academic pursuit - all in an effort to support your work-life effectiveness. Visit our benefits website to learn about our benefit packages.

 

The Center for Computational Research is a leading academic supercomputing center that maintains high performance computing and storage resources dedicated to supporting the university’s research activities. The staff are comprised of high performance computing (HPC) specialists, computational scientists, system administrators, programmers, software developers, and database experts from a variety of backgrounds. CCR’s mission is to enable research and scholarship at UB, provide a wide range of guidance and services to facilitate faculty led research including software development, data analytics, and parallel computing, provide education, outreach, and training at UB and in Western New York and foster economic development and job creation. This position offers a hybrid work schedule allowing the incumbent to work from their choice of locations several days per week. However, currently the State University of New York system does not offer fully remote positions. CCR’s primary location is on the University at Buffalo’s downtown medical campus with access to mass transit, restaurants, stores, and many social activities.

As an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer, the Research Foundation will not discriminate in its employment practices due to an applicant’s race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin and veteran or disability status.