Requisition Id 17087
Major Duties/Responsibilities: - Develop a vision and implement a cohesive group strategy for offering innovative workflow, data, and agentic AI ecosystem capabilities to position the group and the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) for future success in its mission.
- Lead the group's research agenda in agentic workflows, including architectures and orchestration for AI agents operating across HPC, data, and experimental facilities, and the provenance, evaluation, and trustworthiness methods needed to run them at leadership scale.
- Develop new research directions relevant to the OLCF mission and the overall health of the division.
- Collaborate with scientists within and outside of the laboratory to advance the scientific mission of our group, laboratory, the Department of Energy and other sponsors.
- Provide relevant input to assist the Section Head with staff development while providing direct and impactful mentorship to staff on a regular basis.
- Serve as immediate supervisor for staff members in the group, including performance management, career development, and workload planning.
- Write peer-reviewed papers, technical reports, and proposals for internal and external release and represent the organization by giving technical presentations in large public forums.
- Mentor emerging research staff, postdocs, and students.
- Build strong collaborations across ORNL.
- Attract a quality, diverse pool of top candidates and hire staff members who are committed to world-class R&D.
- Hold regular scientific/technical group meetings and be present in the labs and workplace.
Basic Qualifications: - Requires a Ph.D. in computer science or a related subject area, and at least ten years of relevant research experience, beyond the PhD.
- A track record of data and workflow tools and technologies development and machine orchestration methods (agentic and/or automated workflows), and HPC.
Preferred Qualifications: - Validated experience in leading R&D teams.
- Experience leading large-scale R&D projects, ideally spanning multiple institutions or DOE facilities.
- A well-established track record in leading community efforts and events leading to significant community resources.
- A strong awareness of DOE and non-DOE agencies research initiatives.
- Experience organizing workshops and conferences in an area relevant to one or more areas of expertise of the group.
- Strong knowledge of performance modeling, simulation, and benchmarking of parallel and distributed computing systems and of the workflow systems that run on them.
- Familiarity with the FAIR data and research software principles, and with producing AI-ready scientific data.
- Demonstrated experience designing, building, or deploying agentic workflows and multi-agent systems for science, including their orchestration, provenance, and evaluation.
- Experience integrating AI/ML models and services with HPC and workflow systems, such as inference serving on leadership systems, coupling of AI agents with simulation and data pipelines, or human-in-the-loop control of automated campaigns.
- Demonstrated ability to rapidly adopt emerging technologies, including LLM-based and agentic tooling.
- Outstanding communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and strong personal motivation.
Special Requirements:- Security, Credential, and Eligibility Requirements: For employment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), a Real ID compliant form of identification will be required. Additionally, ORNL is subject to Department of Energy (DOE) access restrictions. All employees must also be able to obtain and maintain a federal Personal Identity Verification (PIV) card as mandated by Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12) and Department of Energy (DOE) Order 473.1A, which requires a favorable post-employment background investigation.
To obtain this credential, new employees must successfully complete and pass a Federal Tier 1 background check investigation. This investigation includes a declaration of illegal drug activities, including use, supply, possession, or manufacture within the last year. This includes marijuana and cannabis derivatives, which are still considered illegal under federal law, regardless of state laws.
For foreign national candidates:
If you have not resided in the U.S. for three consecutive years, you are not eligible for the PIV credential and instead will need to obtain a favorable Local Site Specific Only (LSSO) risk determination to maintain employment. Once you meet the three-year residency requirement, you will be required to obtain a PIV credential to maintain employment.
This position will remain open for a minimum of 5 days after which it will close when a qualified candidate is identified and/or hired.
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