The Research Computing Center invites you to join our team.
Open Positions:
The Research Computing Center regularly hires Computational Scientists who have expertise in high-end computing and a specific discipline. Computational Scientists serve as domain experts in supporting and advising faculty, post-docs, and graduate students on a wide range of research projects. They support faculty research projects, understand faculty’s research questions, and contribute to finding solutions and implementing them. Working as part of an existing talented team, you will have ample opportunity to contribute to enabling science at the University of Chicago, develop and deliver training, and other activities designed to advance research.
Application Software Developer
The Research Computing Center (RCC) is seeking a highly motivated Application Software Developer to work closely with faculty and researchers at the University of Chicago. The person in this position will be a software developer assisting with the development of and improvements to faculty and researchers’ software projects. The successful candidate will contribute to the application development team’s goal of successfully completing software development projects on time, maintain the team’s application portfolio, assist with the creation of project specifications documentation and prototypes and do well in a mentoring environment while learning new technologies and systems.
This is a hybrid position requiring 3 days per week onsite.
Computational Scientist – Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
The Research Computing Center (RCC) seeks to hire an experienced Computational Scientist – Scientific–AI and Machine Learning to serve as a domain expert in supporting and advising faculty, post-docs, and graduate students on projects in a wide range of research domains. In this role, the Computational Scientist will support research projects that needs to use machine learning and AI, understand faculty’s research questions and contribute to finding solutions and developing applications. Working as part of an existing team, the successful candidate will have ample opportunity to contribute to enabling science at UChicago, to collaborate on software development, develop and deliver training, and other activities designed to advance research through scientific visualization, machine learning, and beyond.
This is a hybrid position requiring at least 3 days of onsite work.
Computational Scientist – Climate
The Research Computing Center (RCC) seeks an experienced Computational Scientist with a focus on climate research to serve as a domain expert in supporting and advising faculty, post-docs, and graduate students on a wide range of research projects. In this role, the Computational Scientist will support faculty research projects related to climate, understand faculty’s research questions, and contribute to finding solutions and implementing them. Working as part of an existing team, the successful candidate will have ample opportunity to contribute to enabling research at the University of Chicago, develop and deliver training, and other activities designed to advance research related to climate, the earth system science and beyond.
This is a hybrid position requiring at least 3 days onsite.
Computational Scientist – Social Sciences
The Research Computing Center (RCC) seeks a highly motivated Computational Scientist to work closely with faculty and researchers in the Social Sciences Division (SSD) at The University of Chicago. The person in this position will serve as a technical domain expert, supporting and advising faculty on high-end computing and machine learning techniques for big data analysis in their research and grant writing.
This is a hybrid position requiring at least 3 days of onsite work.
Computational Scientist – Quantum Science
The Research Computing Center (RCC) is hiring a highly motivated Computational Scientist to work closely with faculty and researchers at the University of Chicago on quantum science initiatives and projects. The person in this position will support and advise faculty and researchers using quantum computing/information or simulators and classical High-Performance Computing (HPC) for their research. The successful candidate will join a team of computational scientists who support research computing at the University of Chicago and will have ample opportunity to contribute to enabling science at UChicago, deliver training, and other activities designed to advance quantum information related initiatives and projects.
This is a hybrid position requiring at least 3 days of onsite work.
Research Data Scientist & Service Delivery Manager
The University of Chicago Research Computing Center (RCC) is seeking a highly motivated Research Data Scientist & Service Delivery Manager to support faculty, post-docs, and graduate students on using high-end computing for their research projects. The person in this position will primarily coordinate the RCC level 1 support services and will also work on projects spanning a variety of tasks from multiple disciplines. The person in this role will also mentor and manage a team of talented UChicago students who assist with user and project support. The scientists will work with a multi-disciplinary team consisting of computational scientists, machine learning scientists, and application developers. Working as part of an existing team at the RCC, the successful candidate will have ample opportunity to contribute to enabling science at UChicago.
This is a hybrid position requiring at least 3 days a week onsite.
Pay Range
$68,000.00 - $88,000.00
The included pay rate or range represents the University’s good faith estimate of the possible compensation offer for this role at the time of posting.
Benefits Eligible
This position is benefits eligible and the University of Chicago offers a wide range of benefits programs and resources for eligible employees, including health, retirement, and paid time off. Information about the benefit offerings can be found in the Benefits Guidebook.
Open Student Job Opportunities:
The Research Computing Center (RCC) is seeking a highly motivated student to work with our administration team in a creative capacity. The primary project for this student employee will be creating the looping video for our annual symposium Mind Bytes (taking place on April 23rd). The looping video highlights the resources and work of the RCC in a dynamic and visually interesting way. Additionally, the student employee will learn and participate in a variety of administration and creative tasks, such as creating other flyers, PowerPoints, and graphs as well as assisting with various RCC events.
Required Knowledge/Experience/Qualities
- Microsoft Office
- Video editing software such as the Adobe Creative Suite or iMovie or another software that can create and edit videos (MP4s) (be specific in your application)
- Strong organizational skills
- Attention to detail
Preferred Knowledge/Experience/Qualities
- Photography
- Events (planning and/or execution)
Commitment and Pay
- 10-15 hours per week on site at our offices at 6054 South Drexel
- The pay range for this position is $16.25 - $17.25 per hour.
- This position is not benefits-eligible.
To apply, send your resume to jobs@rcc.uchicago.edu.
Job seekers in need of a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process should call 773-834-1841 or email talentacquisition@uchicago.edu with their request.
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