What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Computational Scientist-Radiology position at Mount Sinai Health Systems?
Description
As a member of the MSSM Scientific Computing Group, the Senior Computational Scientist partners and leads projects with other scientists and researchers to plan joint scientific projects that will effectively use MSSM HPC (high performance computing) clusters, data science tools and other modern computational and data science techniques. This individual researches scientific approaches and decides on the path forward for new applications and technologies. The incumbent is a customer-focused leader who sets a positive, productive and courteous tone for the Scientific Computing group and operates under little to no supervision.
Responsibilities
1. Partners directly with scientific and research staff to lead projects to efficiently and effectively use MSSM HPC clusters and other modern data science tools and infrastructure.
2. Improves researcher productivity through highly optimized computational and data workflows.
3. Leads the research, analysis and deployment of new applications and other technologies such as GPUs, Hadoop and cloud computing.
4. Troubleshoots, isolates and resolves technical issues as the most senior level of support.
5. Coordinates and leads benchmarking efforts.
6. Evaluates and approves application programming environments.
7. Oversees the installation infrastructure and management of numerical libraries and application performance tools.
8. Leads effort to develop a needs requirements and define and deploy a comprehensive computational and data vision for MSSM researchers.
9. Provides the highest level of courteous, productive and team-based interaction with not only the HPC team but also with the partner scientists.
10. Trains Associate Computational Scientists and Computational Scientists.
11. Conducts user surveys and assists with the allocations processs.
12. Writes, publishes and presents papers at national and international conferences.
13. Assists in developing and writing proposals. Creates and provides clear documentation on all items.
14. Other relevant duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Ph.D. in a scientific domain required.
- 7 years (higher preferred) in a scientific/academic computing environment.
- Experience in batch scientific computing HPC cluster environment with a parallel file system.
- Experience installing and supporting bio, genomics and chemistry codes (NAMD, AMBER, Matlab, Gromacs, DESMOND).
- Experience with MPI, OpenMP and numerical libraries.
- Experience with scientific workflows.
- Experience with GPUs.
- Experience with data science, containers and cloud environments.
- Experience with instrumenting and optimizing application codes.
- Experience in an academic or research community environment.
- Programming experience in any applicable language.
Employer Description
Strength Through Diversity
The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:
- Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
- Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
- Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.
At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization. We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally.
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“About the Mount Sinai Health System:
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.
The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.”
EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans
Compensation
The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $132000 - $198065 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.
Salary : $132,000 - $198,065
