INDUSTRY

The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) is a leading research center for advanced computational research. TACC’s mission is to enhance the research and education programs of UT Austin and its partners through research, development, operation, and support of advanced computing technologies. To fulfill this mission, TACC provides high-end computing, visualization, data storage, networking resources, and support services to researchers at UT Austin and throughout Texas and the U.S. TACC technical staff also conduct research and development activities in computing system design/architecture, programming tools and environments, and algorithm and application design with the goal of enhancing the capabilities of researchers for knowledge discovery. Job Description This position is part of the Distributed & Grid Computing (DGC) group at TACC and will perform deployment, testing, integration, support, evaluation, and development of grid computing infrastructures. The DGC group participates in a number of grid projects including UTGrid which is deploying a grid for the University of Texas at Austin, the Texas Internet Grid for Research and Education (TIGRE) which is deploying a grid across Texas institutions, and the TeraGrid which is a national grid supporting a number of scientific domains. Particular emphasis for DGC activities at TACC are grid scheduling and workflow, grid portals, information services, and data grid technologies. This position will participate in TACC DGC activities in the following ways: • deploying, testing, and evaluating grid software; • supporting the use of grid software by local and remote users; • developing new tools and techniques to deploy, maintain, and use grid software; • architecting and developing new software and services for grid computing; • integrating and packaging internally- and externally-developed grid software to provide seamless grid environments to users; and • preparing technical documentation describing the usage of internally- and externally-developed grid software; Depending on qualifications, the candidate will be appointed to the UT title of Research Engineering & Science Associate (RESA) I, II, or III. Required Qualifications The selected candidate must have the following minimum qualifications: • a bachelors degree; • three or more years of experience using grids; • two or more years of experience deploying and supporting grid environments; • proficiency with one or more programming languages related to grids including Java, C, C++, and Perl; • demonstrated expertise in working in collaborative, interdisciplinary projects; • excellent technical writing ability; and • excellent interpersonal communication skills and professional demeanor. Preferred Qualifications The following qualifications are strongly desired: • experience deploying and supporting commonly used grid computing software (Globus, Condor, etc.) and software stacks (NSF Middleware Initiative, Virtual Data Toolkit, TeraGrid CTSS, etc.); • experience developing software and services for grids; • experience with high performance computer systems; • experience with current generation grid technologies (XML, SOAP, WSDL, SSL/TLS, X.509); • experience in a research and development organization; and • advanced degree; Instructions to Applicants The University of Texas at Austin is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and actively seeks women and minority applicants for this position. This position is security sensitive; conviction verification conducted on applicant selected. Application requirements: Go to http://utdirect.utexas.edu/pnjobs/ for complete job description and follow instructions to apply for job number 05-09-13-01-4209 using your on-line resume. For additional information about this position, please contact Dr. Warren Smith at wsmith@tacc.utexas.edu.