Mount Sinai Health System · 21 hours ago
Computational Scientist - AI & Human Health
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$96K/yr - $159K/yr
3+ years expMount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, and they are seeking a Computational Scientist to work with scientists and researchers on high performance computing clusters. The role involves optimizing computational workflows, deploying new technologies, and collaborating with research groups to enhance data management and processing capabilities.
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Responsibilities
Works directly with scientist and research staff to efficiently and effectively use MSSM HPC clusters, to be expanded to over 10,000 cores with high bandwidth, low latency interconnects several petabytes of data storage and databases
Works with research groups to help identify, implement and improve their computational and data workflow; assists in facilitating computing and data infrastructure solutions specific to MSSM researchers
Participates in the research and deployment of new technologies such as GPUs, Hadoop and cloud computing
Instruments, tunes and helps optimize researchers codes for maximum performance
Troubleshoots isolates and resolves applications and other technical issues
Benchmarks application codes, develops regression tests and deploys application performance tools
Installs and manages numerical libraries and application performance tools
Develops and implements backup policies
Participates in the integration of HPC resources with laboratory equipment such as sequencers, etc
Works with scientists and researchers to effectively use complementary national resources including XSEDE
Helps define and deploy a comprehensive computational and data vision for MSSM researchers
Writes, publishes and presents papers at national and international conferences
Assists in developing and writing proposals. Creates and provides clear documentation on all items
Other relevant duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
Masters degree or equivalent in a domain science; Ph.D in a scientific domain preferred
3 years, preferably in a scientific/academic computing environment or equivalent experience
Experience in batch HPC cluster environment with a parallel file system
Experience installing and supporting bio and chemistry codes (NAMD, AMBER, Matlab, Gromacs, DESMOND) and laboratory equipment such as sequencers, etc
Experience with MPI, Open MP and numerical libraries
Experience with scientific workflows
Experience with instrumenting and optimizing application codes
Experience in an academic or research community environment
Programming experience in any applicable language
Company
Mount Sinai Health System
Mount Sinai Health System delivers integrated medical care, research, and medical education through its network.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$41.9MKey Investors
National Institutes of HealthHearst Health Prize.Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation
2024-11-11Grant· $7M
2024-06-06Grant· $0.1M
2023-11-02Grant· $7M
Leadership Team
Vincent Tammaro
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
David Feinberg
Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer
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