Scientific Data Services Engineer – AI & HPC
Argonne National Laboratory7 months ago
Lemont, IL, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$94k - $147k/yr
Responsibilities
- Engineer solutions for exposing terabytes to petabytes of scientific data to users and AI models.
- Design data ingestion, indexing, search, and efficient data structures for scientific domains.
- Build highly usable web applications and high-performance APIs for data access.
- Deploy, maintain, and support high-quality software across diverse environments including HPC and Kubernetes.
- Collaborate with scientists and science application teams on scientific workflows and broader research initiatives.
- Design or operate data services and optimize their performance, integration, and analysis.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of experience, master’s degree with 3+ years, PhD with 0+ years, or equivalent.
- Degree in computer science, computational science, physical science, engineering, or a related field.
- Comprehensive programming experience in one or more languages such as Python or C/C++.
- Experience with at least one data management framework such as OpenMetadata.
- Experience deploying software in diverse environments such as Kubernetes and HPC.
- Ability to create, maintain, and support high-quality software.
- Experience with version control software such as Git.
- Preferred: recent MS or PhD, scientific data experience, parallel filesystem experience, data services design or operations, AI language model integration, performance profiling and optimization, and secure multi-user services with authentication, authorization, and API security.
- Strong collaboration, written communication, oral communication, and teamwork skills.
Benefits
- Hybrid remote work with employees typically working more than 60% of their time remotely and occasional onsite work.
- Comprehensive benefits are included as part of the total rewards package.
- Full-time regular employment.
- Employment is contingent on a background check, and the position may require government access authorization after hire.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne National Laboratory is a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science laboratory that conducts research in energy, climate, materials, computing, and national security. Headquartered in Lemont, Illinois and founded in 1946, it is managed by UChicago Argonne, LLC and operates major user facilities such as the Advanced Photon Source and the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. Work is funded by federal programs with partnerships and technology transfer to industry and academia.