Undergraduate Student Assistant

Undergraduate Student Assistant (software engineering, hourly)

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Undergraduate Student Assistant

Remote, Part-time Position

PACE provides hardware, software, and user support for campus-wide HPC (high-performance computing) clusters used by hundreds of Georgia Tech researchers. Our cluster provide massively-parallel hardware, including multi-core and GPU. Researchers run novel simulation, data analytics, and AI/ML workflows.

Job Description

In this position, you will contribute to user-facing web portals for our campus-wide HPC (high-performance computing) clusters. These web portals are used by researchers to develop and run high-performance simulations, data analytics, and AI/ML workflows.

Responsibilities

• Develop additional capabilities of PACE’s Open OnDemand (https://openondemand.org/) instances
• Use bash, Python, and JavaScript to expand capabilities of existing OnDemand applications (such as our Jupyter and RStudio services)
• Use bash, Python, and JavaScript to introduce new OnDemand applications (such as TensorBoard and ParaView)
• Use JavaScript, HTML and CSS to improve the UI/UX of the OnDemand portal

Qualifications

Requirements:

  • Registered undergraduate student

Preferred qualifications:

  • Familiarity with Linux command line and bash scripting
  • Familiarity with Python
  • Familiarity with or ability to learn JavaScript
  • Ability to learn new technologies based on developer documentation

Interview requirements: If you are offered an interview, you will be required to do the following:

  • Prior to interview, complete a take-home coding challenge in bash and Python
  • During the interview, demonstrate your ability to use the Linux command line in response to the interviewers’ questions

Citizenship Requirements

  • Students must be a U.S. person (U.S. citizen or permanent resident)
  • Due to regulatory and security requirements, we are only able to hire individuals classified as “United States persons”. For more information, see item 3 “Who is considered a U.S. Person?” of the Oversight section of the nsa.gov FAQ: https://www.nsa.gov/about/faqs/sigint-faqs/#oversight3

Interested?

This role follows the email application process. Please take note of the citizenship requirements.

Application Deadline

April 30, 2024

Hiring Manager

Partnership for an Advanced Computing Environment (PACE)

Ronald Rahaman

Research Scientist II

rrahaman6@gatech.edu

Specifications

Hours

10-20 hours per week

Rate

$16.00-$20.00/hour

Location

Remote 

Duration

May 12, 2024 – August 3, 2024

Perks of the Job

Competitive Industry Experience

Gain experience comparable to industry-level software engineering

Teamwork

Join a team of student assistants and learn to collaborate with like-minded colleagues in a fun and friendly work culture

Technical Growth

Gain real-world experience to further your career as a developer, research software engineer, or Ph.D. researcher

Perks

A Step Towards Success

Student assistants who have worked in this Undergraduate Student Assistant role have moved on to full-time roles and internships at some pretty awesome companies.