Product Development Professional

This role is a Product Development Professional 3, a hybrid contract position for one year at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, offering a pay rate of 50% of $88,000 - $124,800/year. Key skills include Unix, Cloud, Big Data, and AI.

United States

The Mission of the San Diego Supercomputer Center is to translate innovation into practice. SDSC adopts and partners on innovations in industry and academia in the areas of software, hardware, computational and data sciences, and related areas, and translates them into cyberinfrastructure that solves practical problems across any and all scientific domains and societal endeavors. Cyberinfrastructure refers to an accessible, integrated network of high-performance computing, data, and networking resources and expertise, focused on accelerating scientific inquiry and discovery.

With more than 250 employees and $30‑50M of revenue a year, SDSC is a global leader in the design, development, and operations of cyberinfrastructure.

SDSC supports hundreds of multidisciplinary programs spanning a wide variety of domains, from earth sciences and biology to astrophysics, bioinformatics, and health IT. SDSC presently operates multiple large HPC systems ranging from a 120k x86 CPU core general purpose system to a system explicitly designed for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, and a nationally distributed system open for all of academia to integrate with.

SDSC offers research data services across the entire vertical stack from universally scalable storage to consulting services on FAIR, Big Data, and AI. SDSC offers a rich set of cloud services both on‑premise, in the commercial cloud, and as hybrid services across both.

SDSC has three geographic scopes, a national scope supporting cyberinfrastructure for the entire US research and education community, a California scope with a special focus on convergence research that addresses the three dominant threats to CA:
Drought, Fire, Earthquakes, and a campus scope focusing on advancing the global impact of SDSC by advancing the research objectives of the UC San Diego faculty, researchers, and students. SDSC impacts researchers at scales from 1,000’s to Millions. SDSC annually trains thousands of researchers in cyberinfrastructure tools and software, and supports thousands of individual researchers via Unix accounts on its large HPC systems.

SDSC was a leader developing the Science Gateway concept, and continues to be a global leader in its evolution. SDSC operates multiple major such gateways with user communities ranging from the tens of thousands to the millions. SDSC’s educational programs includes online courses that have been attended by more than a million students.

The Product Development Professional will use their skills as a seasoned, experienced professional with a full understanding of product / service development practices to resolve a wide range of issues. The incumbent will possess the ability to manage the development of products / services / enhancements of diverse scope, size, impact and budget and demonstrate sound judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions to design, financial, marketing, or administrative problems.

Additionally, they will engage users, domain scientists, and funders with products to improve and develop scalable computing and software solutions to emerging, complex social problems such as wildfire prediction products. They identify and appraise viewpoints and needs of a variety of stakeholders to inform product performance and planning. They will also discuss technical specifications and processes involved with lab scientists, observes demonstrations in the field, and interacts with users and funders.

The incumbent will also define improvements and future directions for products and research and scan the market for organizations providing related products and services, as well as identify, synthesize, and share best practice learnings. They will actively promote and lead enhancements to services/products based on learnings and generate both technical and lay progress reports, and create multi‑media outputs designed to…