Position Description
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) has an immediate opening for a postdoctoral researcher to work on novel data-driven scientific discoveries for cancer research targeting our forthcoming exascale supercomputer, Aurora. The ALCF enables breakthroughs in science and engineering by providing supercomputing resources and expertise to the research community.
You will collaborate with scientists in the Early Science Program (ESP) to solve some of the most challenging scientific problems on America’s first Exascale supercomputer, Aurora, to be deployed in 2021. The successful candidate will work with an inter-disciplinary team of scientists to develop data-driven techniques using machine learning and deep learning for drug design and predictive models for drug response to help in the treatments of cancer patients. You will work in a multi-disciplinary and collaborative environment consisting of computational scientists, experimental and computational biologists, computer scientists, applied mathematicians, and ML/DL experts.
In this role you will:
Research and develop data-driven models for drug design and predictive models for drug response that can be used to optimize pre-clinical drug screening and drive precision medicine-based treatments for cancer patients.
Research and develop novel high-throughput workflows to effectively scale the drug-design model on supercomputers.
Position Requirements
A PhD + 0-3 years in computational sciences including chemistry, computer science, physics, iology, or in a related field.
Comprehensive experience programming in one or more programming languages such as C, C++, and Python.
Experience with data-driven modeling.
Knowledge of numerical methods, parallel programming, machine learning/deep learning methods and frameworks.
Knowledge of parallel algorithms, distributed memory architectures, and parallel performance evaluation of domain specific implementations.
Ability to create, maintain, and support high-quality software.
An ideal candidate would have published their scientific software in a public repository (e.g. GitHub)]
Interpersonal and communication skills required to interact effectively, tactfully and discreetly with all internal/external contacts and to develop effective working relationships.
Must have considerable ability to proactively identify issues, investigate, and recommend solutions.
Ability to think quickly and problem-solve when managing difficult situations.
Ability to model Argonne’s Core Values: Impact, Safety, Respect, Integrity, and Teamwork.