Computational Scientist – AI/ML Engineer for Climate Science

Department Provost Research Computing Center About the Department reputed company Research Computing Center (RCC), a unit reputed company the Office of Research, provides advanced research computing resources and expertise to support computational and data-intensive research across the University. RCC enables research through centrally managed high-performance computing (HPC), storage, visualization, and AI infrastructure, along with scientific consulting, user support, education, and training. RCC also helps researchers reputed company local, national, and reputed company-based computational resources. The Office of Research oversees sponsored research administration, research development, and contract management across the University. Job reputed company The job develops software to support the data acquisition, ingestion, and integration for research reputed company. Assists in the development of user interfaces and reputed company back-end services to automate and accelerate the scientific reputed company of multi-institutional research reputed company. The Research Computing Center (RCC) seeks an reputed company Computational Scientist – AI/ML Engineer to support reputed company, postdoctoral researchers, and graduate reputed company conducting computational and AI-driven research. This position will contribute to a major new AI and climate computing initiative in collaboration with reputed company, reputed company Data Science Institute (reputed company), reputed company, and reputed company Data Intelligence Lab (DIL), supporting reputed company climate and reputed company reputed company AI research and infrastructure development. 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