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<p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Requisition Id 16738 </span></p><p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><strong>Overview:</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">The National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) at Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL), which hosts several of the world’s most powerful computer systems, is seeking highly qualified individuals to play a key role in developing, and deploying data management tools and persistent services that support scientific and AI/ML campaigns that run on NCCS computing infrastructure, including the world’s first exaflop system, Frontier.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><strong>The Team:</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">As a Senior Research Software Engineer (RSE) in the Data and Platform Services (DAPS) group, you will work within the HPC Operations Section and closely collaborate with other Lead Software Engineers on various software engineering projects. The DAPS group designs and operates data management platforms, tools, and services for the end-to-end data lifecycle from ingestion to publication and supports several large initiatives and facilities at ORNL. Our primary development and deployment platform is the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) Slate Service, built on Kubernetes and Rancher, which provides a container orchestration service for running critical operation applications and user-managed persistent applications that run alongside our OLCF supercomputer systems and other OLCF managed HPC clusters.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><strong>The Role:</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">As a Senior Research Software Engineer, you will implement, operate, and maintain federated data platforms, data management portals, data processing pipelines, API gateways, and persistent services for the entire data lifecycle on our on-premises Kubernetes clusters, with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, and maintainability. You will also assist with AI initiatives at OLCF, integrate key data engineering and MLOps technologies, be an individual contributor for small-medium sized projects, and collaborate with Platform engineers in delivering a robust set of production services for OLCF users. This role requires: significant experience with full stack application and API development, working knowledge of Kubernetes and containerization. Knowledge of current AI/ML tools and workflows is preferred but not required.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><strong>Major Duties/Responsibilities:</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><u>Application Development and Deployment</u></span></p> <ul type="disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Gain working expertise with federated data management (e.g., Pelican, Rucio), data catalog solutions (e.g. CKAN, DKAN, Schema.org), streaming data (e.g., Kafka), and data movement (XRootD, Globus, S3) tools and technologies.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Design and implement web portals and API services for data management using a combination of modern web technologies.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Develop, implement, and maintain Kubernetes deployment recipes for data portals, catalogs, API gateways, and other ancillary services like key-value stores and databases.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Implement solutions for MLOps including model lifecycle management and storage, as well as integration with existing platforms like MLFlow.<br></span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><u>Collaboration</u></span></p> <ul type="disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Partner closely with internal platforms, cybersecurity, and account management teams to ensure the platform meets security, compliance, role-based access controls, and usability expectations.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Participate in cross-functional projects related to platform enhancements and cluster lifecycle automation.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Be able to represent the DAPS team with internal collaborators and partners across the lab.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><strong>Basic Qualifications:</strong></span></p> <ul type="disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">BS degree with some relevant experience or equivalent experience.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">At least two years of experience with data management platform and tools development.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">At least two years of experience with full stack application and API development.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Experience with CI/CD tooling, GitOps, and Kubernetes.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Experience with code review and familiarity with tools like git, GitHub and GitLab.<br><br></span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> <strong>Preferred Qualifications:</strong></span></p> <ul type="disc"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Excellent interpersonal/communications skills, and the ability to work as part of a team.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Experience implementing and maintaining highly available systems/services.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Experience with PHP, Python, modern Javascript frameworks (React, AngularJS, NodeJS).</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">5+ years of experience in addition to the degree.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Experience with modern software practices such as test-driven development, Agile software development practices and a firm, proven knowledge of software development lifecycles.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Demonstrated activity within the broader open-source software community.</span></li> </ul> <div> <div> <div id="_com_1"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> </span></div> </div> </div><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">This position will remain open for a minimum of 5 days after which it will close when a qualified candidate is identified and/or hired.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">We accept Word (.doc, .docx), Adobe (unsecured .pdf), Rich Text Format (.rtf), and HTML (.htm, .html) up to 5MB in size. Resumes from third party vendors will not be accepted; these resumes will be deleted and the candidates submitted will not be considered for employment.</span></p> <p><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">If you have trouble applying for a position, please email [email protected].</span></p> <p><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt;color:black">ORNL is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants, including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans, are encouraged to apply. UT-Battelle is an E-Verify employer.</span></p>