Research Scientist III - Computational Chemistry Facilities Manager

The UNT Chemistry Department invites applications for a full-time Research Scientist III position in High-Performance Computing. The role of the position is to manage the department’s High-Performance Computing facility, maintain its computer servers and infrastructure, and train and support users. Applicants should have a strong background in computational chemistry or a closely related area. Experience managing, installing, and/or upgrading modern HPC facilities is strongly preferred.

Job duties include coordinating maintenance and upgrades of computing equipment and support system, managing user access and training, providing research support for users, managing billing, installing and updated codes/software needed by users, and working with users to obtain funding for facility upgrades.

• Manage and maintain physical infrastructure for departmental high performance computing (HPC) facility.
• Manage and coordinate access to the Computational Chemistry Instructional Laboratory (CCIL).
• Provide information about computational facilities to chemistry researchers for purposes of writing publications and grant proposals.
• Support HPC users with software and hardware needs.
• Provide technical support for research groups doing computational chemistry.
• Manage research access to HPC systems and manage queues for computational research jobs.
• Obtain quotes for needed upgrades and repairs to HPC facility, and oversee such upgrades/repairs.

Ph.D. in Computational/Theoretical Chemistry or a related area.

Experience managing and maintaining multi-user high performance computing facilities

Strong record of published research in Computational/Theoretical Chemistry or related areas.