Computational Scientist - Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

The University of Chicago Research Computing Center (RCC), a unit in the Office of Research, provides high-end research computing resources to researchers at the University of Chicago. It is dedicated to enabling research by providing access to centrally managed High Performance Computing (HPC), storage, and visualization resources. These resources include hardware, software, high-level scientific and technical user support, and the education and training required to help researchers make full use of modern HPC technology and local and national supercomputing resources.

The Office of Research oversees the conduct of sponsored research, research program development, and contract management functions.

The RCC is part of the University of Chicago’s Office of Research and provides centralized HPC, storage, visualization, and related support to researchers across disciplines.

The 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 need 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.

• Support applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in various research disciplines and serve as the domain expert.
• Work closely with faculty to identify, develop, and implement useful computational methods and resources that support or advance their research. Independently and proactively propose and execute practical solutions to research challenges.
• Develop and implement AI and machine-learning based methods for different use cases: images, video, speech, unstructured text, etc.
• Develop, maintain, and support data analysis, AI and Machine Learning pipelines.
• Confidently solve regression, classification, clustering, forecasting, and anomaly detection problems using established machine learning techniques.
• Independently propose and execute practical solutions to various research challenges.
• Communicate highly technical information to numerous audiences, including faculty, students, researchers, and staff. Teach others and learn new techniques.
• Help faculty with grant proposals by contributing sections describing the interplay between research objectives and new or expanded data resources.
• Create and present tutorials, hands-on workshops, and documentation to train the research community.
• Develops and presents technical training materials and web-based documentation. Ensures timely systems support and updates. Assist in conducting information security assessments and risk analysis of computing environment.
• Evaluates past and present technologies to help develop new tools. Ensures all the new tools have been through quality control reviews.
• Performs other related work as needed.

• Education:
  
  Minimum qualifications include a college or university degree in related field.
• Work Experience:
  
  Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through 2-5 years of work experience in a related job discipline.

• Education:
  
  Ph.D. in computer science, computer engineering, data science, or similar.

• Experience with one or more machine learning and deep learning frameworks such as Tensor Flow, PyTorch, or Keras.
• Experience applying latest AI/ML techniques in computer vision and image classification analysis.
• Experience with one or more following AI/ML domains:
  Causal AI, Reinforcement Learning, Generative AI, NLP, Dimension Reduction, Computer Vision, Sequential Models.
• Experience using AI/ML…