st: professional position available @ BC

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA, USA)  is constructing a high  
performance computing facility for general University use, and our  
Director of Research Services is seeking to fill a new position of  
Senior Research Associate to support the facility:

--- official statement ---
Research Services provides assistance, consultation, support and  
training to researchers in their computing projects.  Research  
Services is expanding to provide support for computing on Linux  
clusters and other platforms and has an open full-time permanent  
position for an expert in Scientific Computation. The Senior Research  
Associate will: assist faculty research groups in developing,  
porting, tuning, debugging and parallelizing codes on Linux clusters  
and other platforms; give tutorials/workshops; write documentation on  
how to use BC's Linux clusters including use of queues; write scripts  
to make job submissions and other procedures easier for users;  
benchmark systems; and assist researchers with grant applications as  
related to computing technologies.

The Senior Research Associate will be able to grasp complex technical  
issues, synthesize them into appropriate responses, and have the  
ability to convey results to diverse audiences. The successful  
candidate will be oriented to developing innovative approaches to  
problem solving and will partner with academic researchers to  
accomplish desired research objectives.
	
Requirements
	
The following expertise and experience is required:
*  Expertise in writing and porting Fortran, C, or C++ codes in a  
UNIX/Linux environment.
*  Expertise in writing codes using mathematical libraries.
*  Experience writing parallel codes using OpenMP and/or MPI.
*  Experience debugging parallel codes using tools such as TotalView.
*  Ability to work in a team environment that aspires to service  
excellence with strong individual, organizational, and planning skills.
*  Ability to coordinate and oversee multiple tasks at one time in a  
fast-paced environment.
*  Demonstrated skill in providing excellent customer service and  
effective management.
*  Excellent written, interpersonal, and oral communication skills.

Master's degree, Ph.D. preferred, in Chemistry, Physics, Engineering,  
Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or equivalent area and at  
least four to six years of progressively responsible experience in an  
information technology environment, preferably in an academic  
setting, with a focus on superior customer support.
--- end official statement, sans the usual boilerplate re AA/EO etc. ---

For info, http://www.bc.edu/jobs, reference 002298.  If you have  
colleagues or acquaintances with these skills who might be interested  
in a Boston-area position of this sort, please let them know.  
Additional unadvertised requisite: must be able to deal with  
demanding, irascible faculty members like yours truly, but on the  
flip side, never a dull moment in this job!

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html


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