Co-Director, CSC, Head Computation Strategies, California Nanosystems Institute

The Center for Scientific
Computing (CSC) is housed within CNSI and managed jointly by CNSI and the Materials Research Lab (MRL). CSC provides High Performance
Computing (HPC; both hardware and technical expertise) to the UCSB research community in both campus available, and dedicated condo’
clusters. It currently serves approximately 100 campus faculty and 300 individual users, spanning 24 different campus departments and
research organizations; the CSC has been cited over 1,000 times in peer-reviewed journals. The CSC Co-Director serves triple roles as the
primary system administrator of these clusters (including management of the CSC data center, a 1300 square foot raised-floor dedicated
machine room with 40 racks and 66 tons of cooling), as a research computing consultant, and as a partner in the strategic planning of the
center, in collaboration with the Director of CNSI and the CSC faculty advisory committee. The Co-Director assists in the writing of grants
to replace/upgrade HPC resources, organizes quarterly instructional workshops and occasional conferences on HPC topics and research
computing, and is responsible for assuring CSC compliance with applicable federal, state and campus regulations, policies and procedures. As
one of the few high-level research computing professionals on the UCSB campus, the Co-Director participates in campus-wide IT governance,
through service on various standing and ad hoc committees. The Co-Director oversees a secondary system administrator and a user-support
specialist.

The Head of CNSI Scientific Data & Computation Strategies is responsible for managing computer systems within CNSI’s
shared experimental facilities and individual research laboratories that are integrated with lab equipment and/or workflows (LIMS or data
analytics, e.g.), and identifying new technologies and tools that assure CNSI lab capabilities remain at the cutting edge. Elings Hall also
has a number of shared facilities managed by other entities and the incumbent works with those facilities managers as well to advance
research capabilities. UCSB is known for its wide ranging, cross disciplinary research. As such, this position works closely with other IT
groups on campus to assure that researchers enjoy a seamless, easy-to-use IT ecosystem. Further, the Head manages CNSI-UCSB computing
interactions with various off-campus organizations, including the CNSI-UCLA sister site and the National Research Platform. The Head is also
responsible for developing strategies for CNSI to integrate AI into its research computing infrastructure and to identify new
AI-enabled
opportunities for the provision of recharge services.

Qualifications

Basic
qualifications (required at time of application)