<p></p><p><span>The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility’s (ALCF) mission is to accelerate major scientific discoveries and engineering breakthroughs for humanity by designing and providing world-leading computing facilities in partnership with the computational science community. We help researchers solve some of the world’s largest and most complex problems with our unique combination of supercomputing resources and computational science expertise.</span></p><p><br><span>The ALCF has an opening for a data services engineer working in the space of enabling AI for science, specifically targeting large-scale scientific data management. The successful candidate will join the Data Services and Workflows group, which focuses on scientific workflows that combine large-scale data, simulations, analysis, and AI. In this position, the candidate can expect to engineer solutions that expose terabytes to petabytes of scientific data to users and to AI models, emphasizing data ingestion, indexing, and search of diverse data. Working together with scientists, you will work to understand data from target science domains, how to structure it efficiently for search according to project requirements, and expose it to users through highly-usable web applications, and to AI applications through high-performance APIs.</span></p><p><br><span>The Data Services and Workflows group--and this position--involves work in a highly collaborative environment involving science application teams, academia and industry, as well as other national labs and agencies, to solve some of the world’s largest and most complex problems in science and engineering. The candidate will engage with science application teams and contribute to broader scientific initiatives. </span></p><p></p><p><span>This position qualifies as "Hybrid Remote Work - Occasionally Onsite": which applies to employees typically working more than 60% of their time remotely. </span></p><p style="text-align:inherit;"></p><p style="text-align:inherit;"></p><p style="text-align:left;"><b>Position Requirements</b></p><p></p><p><span>Required skills and qualifications</span></p><ul><li><p>RD2: Bachelors and 5+ years of experience, Masters and 3+ years, or PhD and 0+ years, or equivalent</p></li><li><p>Degree <span>in computer science, computational science, a physical science, engineering, or related field</span></p></li><li><p>Comprehensive experience programming in one or more programming languages such as Python, C/C++</p></li><li><span>Experience with at least one data management framework (e.g. OpenMetadata)</span></li><li><span>Experience with deployment in diverse environments (e.g. Kubernetes, HPC)</span></li><li><span>Ability to create, maintain, and support high-quality software is essential</span></li><li><span>Experience with version control software such as git</span></li><li><span>Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment</span></li><li><span>Effective written and oral communications skills</span></li><li><span>Ability to model Argonne’s core values of impact, safety, respect, integrity and teamwork</span></li></ul><p></p><p>Preferred skills and qualifications</p><ul><li><span>A recent MS or PhD in computer science, computational science, a physical science, engineering, or related field</span></li><li>Experience working with scientific data in one or more domains</li><li>Experience working with parallel filesystems</li><li>Experience designing or operating data services, including deployment, analysis, and integration with AI language models</li><li>Experience profiling and optimizing data services for performance</li><li>Familiarity with secure, multi-user services, including authentication/authorization, and API security</li></ul><p style="text-align:inherit;"></p><p style="text-align:inherit;"></p><p style="text-align:left;"><b>Job Family</b></p>Research Development (RD)<p style="text-align:inherit;"></p><p style="text-align:inherit;"></p><p style="text-align:left;"><b>Job Profile</b></p>Software Engineering 2<p style="text-align:inherit;"></p><p style="text-align:inherit;"></p><p style="text-align:left;"><b>Worker Type</b></p>Regular<p style="text-align:inherit;"></p><p style="text-align:inherit;"></p><p style="text-align:left;"><b>Time Type</b></p>Full time<p style="text-align:inherit;"></p><p style="text-align:inherit;"></p><h3></h3>The expected hiring range for this position is $94,486.00 - $147,398.94.<h3></h3><p style="text-align:inherit;"></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span><span>Please note that the pay range information is a general guideline only. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as, but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, business considerations, internal equity, and external market pay for comparable jobs. Additionally, comprehensive benefits are part of the total rewards package. </span></span></p><p style="text-align:inherit;"></p><p style="text-align:left;">Click <a href="https://www.anl.gov/hr/healthcare-insurance"><span>here</span></a> to view Argonne employee benefits!</p><h3></h3><p style="text-align:inherit;"></p><p><span>As an equal employment opportunity employer, and in accordance with our core values of impact, safety, respect, integrity and teamwork, Argonne National Laboratory is committed to a safe and welcoming workplace that fosters collaborative scientific discovery and innovation. Argonne encourages everyone to apply for employment. Argonne is committed to nondiscrimination and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law.</span></p><p style="text-align:inherit;"></p><p style="text-align:inherit;"></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p style="text-align:left;">Argonne employees, and certain guest researchers and contractors, are subject to particular restrictions related to participation in Foreign Government Sponsored or Affiliated Activities, as defined and detailed in United States Department of Energy Order 486.1A. You will be asked to disclose any such participation in the application phase for review by Argonne's Legal Department.  </p><p style="text-align:inherit;"></p><p style="text-align:left;">All Argonne offers of employment are contingent upon a background check that includes an assessment of criminal conviction history conducted on an individualized and case-by-case basis.  Please be advised that Argonne positions require upon hire (or may require in the future) for the individual be to obtain a government access authorization that involves additional background check requirements.  Failure to obtain or maintain such government access authorization could result in the withdrawal of a job offer or future termination of employment.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>

<p class="break-words white-space-pre-wrap t-black--light text-body-medium">Argonne National Laboratory, one of the U.S. Department of Energy's national laboratories for science and engineering research, employs 3,400 employees, including 1,400 scientists and engineers, three-quarters of whom hold doctoral degrees. Argonne's annual operating budget of around $1 billion supports upwards of 200 research projects. Since 1990, Argonne has worked with more than 600 companies and numerous federal agencies and other organizations. Argonne's mission is to apply a unique mix of world-class science, engineering and user facilities to deliver innovative research and technologies. We create new knowledge that addresses the most important scientific and societal needs of our nation. We actively seek opportunities to work with industry to transfer our technologies to the marketplace through licensing, joint research and many other collaborative relationships. Argonne is managed by UChicago Argonne, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. We are located on 1,500 acres (6.9 sq. km) in southwest DuPage County, Illinois 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Chicago. The site is completely encircled by the beautiful Waterfall Glen Forest Preserve.</p>

Scientific Data Services Engineer – AI & HPC

<p></p><p><span>The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility’s (ALCF) mission is to accelerate major scientific discoveries and engineering breakthroughs for humanity by designing and providing world-leading computing facilities in partnership with the computational science community. We help researchers solve some of the world’s largest and most complex problems with our unique combination of supercomputing resources and computational science expertise.</span></p><p><br /><span>The ALCF has an opening for a data services engineer working in the space of enabling AI for science, specifically targeting large-scale scientific data management. The successful candidate will join the Data Services and Workflows group, which focuses on scientific workflows that combine large-scale data, simulations, analysis, and AI. In this position, the candidate can expect to engineer solutions that expose terabytes to petabytes of scientific data to users and to AI models, emphasizing data ingestion, indexing, and search of diverse data. Working together with scientists, you will work to understand data from target science domains, how to structure it efficiently for search according to project requirements, and expose it to users through highly-usable web applications, and to AI applications through high-performance APIs.</span></p><p><br /><span>The Data Services and Workflows group--and this position--involves work in a highly collaborative environment involving science application teams, academia and industry, as well as other national labs and agencies, to solve some of the world’s largest and most complex problems in science and engineering. The candidate will engage with science application teams and contribute to broader scientific initiatives. </span></p><p></p><p><span>This position qualifies as "Hybrid Remote Work - Occasionally Onsite": which applies to employees typically working more than 60% of their time remotely. </span></p><p></p><p></p><p><b>Position Requirements</b></p><p></p><p><span>Required skills and qualifications</span></p><ul><li><p>RD2: Bachelors and 5+ years of experience, Masters and 3+ years, or PhD and 0+ years, or equivalent</p></li><li><p>Degree <span>in computer science, computational science, a physical science, engineering, or related field</span></p></li><li><p>Comprehensive experience programming in one or more programming languages such as Python, C/C++</p></li><li><span>Experience with at least one data management framework (e.g. OpenMetadata)</span></li><li><span>Experience with deployment in diverse environments (e.g. Kubernetes, HPC)</span></li><li><span>Ability to create, maintain, and support high-quality software is essential</span></li><li><span>Experience with version control software such as git</span></li><li><span>Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment</span></li><li><span>Effective written and oral communications skills</span></li><li><span>Ability to model Argonne’s core values of impact, safety, respect, integrity and teamwork</span></li></ul><p></p><p>Preferred skills and qualifications</p><ul><li><span>A recent MS or PhD in computer science, computational science, a physical science, engineering, or related field</span></li><li>Experience working with scientific data in one or more domains</li><li>Experience working with parallel filesystems</li><li>Experience designing or operating data services, including deployment, analysis, and integration with AI language models</li><li>Experience profiling and optimizing data services for performance</li><li>Familiarity with secure, multi-user services, including authentication/authorization, and API security</li></ul><p></p><p></p><p><b>Job Family</b></p>Research Development (RD)<p></p><p></p><p><b>Job Profile</b></p>Software Engineering 2<p></p><p></p><p><b>Worker Type</b></p>Regular<p></p><p></p><p><b>Time Type</b></p>Full time<p></p><p></p><h3></h3>The expected hiring range for this position is $94,486.00 - $147,398.94.<h3></h3><p></p><p><span><span>Please note that the pay range information is a general guideline only. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as, but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, business considerations, internal equity, and external market pay for comparable jobs. Additionally, comprehensive benefits are part of the total rewards package. </span></span></p><p></p><p>Click <a href="https://www.anl.gov/hr/healthcare-insurance"><span>here</span></a> to view Argonne employee benefits!</p><h3></h3><p></p><p><span>As an equal employment opportunity employer, and in accordance with our core values of impact, safety, respect, integrity and teamwork, Argonne National Laboratory is committed to a safe and welcoming workplace that fosters collaborative scientific discovery and innovation. Argonne encourages everyone to apply for employment. Argonne is committed to nondiscrimination and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law.</span></p><p></p><p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p>Argonne employees, and certain guest researchers and contractors, are subject to particular restrictions related to participation in Foreign Government Sponsored or Affiliated Activities, as defined and detailed in United States Department of Energy Order 486.1A. You will be asked to disclose any such participation in the application phase for review by Argonne's Legal Department.  </p><p></p><p>All Argonne offers of employment are contingent upon a background check that includes an assessment of criminal conviction history conducted on an individualized and case-by-case basis.  Please be advised that Argonne positions require upon hire (or may require in the future) for the individual be to obtain a government access authorization that involves additional background check requirements.  Failure to obtain or maintain such government access authorization could result in the withdrawal of a job offer or future termination of employment.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>

Scientific Data Services Engineer – AI & HPC

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