Associate User Researcher Jobs in Utah (NOW HIRING)

Job Summary:
The University of Utah is a world-renowned research institute seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher with expertise in AI technologies and data science. The role involves developing systems for AI model discovery and scholarly knowledge extraction, while collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to enhance research workflows.
Responsibilities:
• Work with faculty, staff, and students in designing and developing computational tools in support of research projects.
• Aid in the specification of software requirements in coordination with faculty or team leads.
• Develop user interfaces, APIs with web front-end technologies like HTML5, SCSS, Vue, React, Typescript, D3.js, node.js, chart.js
• Back end server component development with technologies such as Flask, Django, CKAN, ArangoDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and Elasticsearch.
• Create and maintain build, testing, and deployment systems with Git, Github, Slack, Docker, AWS, Circle-CI, webpack, npm and many others.
• Develop high quality and well documented code.
• Build CI/CD workflows to validate changes across multiple targets
• Profile and optimize performance for data throughput and latency
• Interface with collaboration partners and participate actively in a collaborative work environment to turn requirements into optimal solutions on a large scale.
• Contribute actively to team discussions on architectural design and solutions by continuously looking for improvements.
• Research and stay current with project-related scientific literature.
• Identify and implement creative solutions to overcome problems.
• Mentor postdocs, students, and junior software developers for best software practices.
• Support the end-user community by responding to user questions posted on the discussion list, fixing bugs, and incorporating feature requests.
• Help with the project website and discussion boards for user support, developer support, and announcements.
• Contribute to teaching activities by preparing and presenting educational seminars
Qualifications:
Required:
• PhD in Computer Science, Scientific Computing, Data Science, Informatics, AI/ML, or a closely related area, or equivalent research experience.
• Solid background and working knowledge of computer science fundamentals including algorithms, data structures, and object-oriented programming.
• Experience with HTML and web technologies.
• Good knowledge of server technology and databases.
• Working with large codebases
• Containerization (Docker) and building software for web deployment
• Strong understanding of Linux toolchains and debugging tools
• Debugging and critical thinking skills including identifying bottlenecks, and bugs and devising solutions to these problems.
• Experience with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar CI/CD systems.
• Able to work in a collaborative software development environment as well as working independently with minimal supervision and direction.
• Able to learn new tools and technologies.
• Being self-motivated and having good organizational, communication, and teamwork skills is essential.
• Willingness and ability to collaborate in a highly diverse, multi-disciplinary environment.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills necessary to effectively work in a multidisciplinary team environment.
• Communication and presentation skills to engage technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong interpersonal abilities and teamwork skills.
• Highly motivated to support research projects.
• Ability to manage time across simultaneous tasks.
Preferred:
• Experience contributing to scientific computing frameworks
• Knowledge of RDMA, libfabric, or similar low-level communication APIs
• MCP and NLP integration
• UI/UX design
• Scientific visualization
• CyberSecurity and AAI (OAuth2, Keycloak, etc)
• Cloud deployment and Kubernetes
Company:
The University of Utah, located in Salt Lake City in the foothills of the Wasatch Mountains, is the flagship institution of higher learning in Utah. Founded in 1850, the company is headquartered in Salt Lake City, ut, US, , with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.