Our Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) is a joint effort of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. Established in 1986, PSC is supported by several federal agencies, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and private industry and is a leading partner in XSEDE (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment), the National Science Foundation cyberinfrastructure program.

PSC provides university, government and industrial researchers with access to several of the most powerful systems for high-performance computing, communications and data storage available to scientists, engineers and scholars nationwide for unclassified research. We advance the state of the art in high-performance computing, communications and data analytics and offer a flexible environment for solving the largest and most challenging problems in computational science.

We are seeking a Senior Computational Scientist to join our team. In this role, you will have the opportunity to support research applications, solving problems with internal and external users as they accomplish discovery on modern high-performance computing platforms. You will provide in-depth consultation and may lead a team to help address users' research and support questions. Your services may also include proposal development and technical training to ensure that allocations are managed, and outputs are working accurately. You will ensure the satisfaction of our customers by advising them on configurations, practices and policies that may favorably impact software performance.

Core responsibilities include:

• Collaborating with research teams in developing, installing, documenting, porting, debugging and optimizing application-level research software in your field of scientific expertise.
• Providing solutions to issues reported by PSC’s community of users, referred to you by the PSC helpdesk because of your expertise, in a timely manner.
• Learning and keeping current with high performance computing technologies.