Specialist - Research-Continuing

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Work type: Faculty/Academic Staff
Major Administrative Unit / College: Research And Innovation
Department: Institute For Cyber Enabled Research 10059322
Sub Area: FAS- Fac./Acad Staff
Salary: 75000.00-90000.00 Salary Commensurate with Experience
Location: East Lansing
Categories: Information Technology, Continuing System Academic Staff, Full Time (90-100%), Non-Union

Position Summary

This facilitation includes direct user support as well as broader participation in project development and research activities. The core duties and responsibilities in this role include:

• Engaging and collaborating with MSU and Henry Ford Health researchers who use (or plan to use) advanced computational resources in their research, including MSU's High Performance Computing Center (HPCC), NSF ACCESS resources, high-throughput computing, and cloud computing.

• Facilitating the utilization of a high-security computing cluster that will be used for research using restricted data (e.g., human medical data, export-controlled data).

• Supporting MSU HPCC users through one-on-one and small-group interactions, through the HPCC Help Desk, and via online or in-person office hours.

• Collaborating with MSU and Henry Ford Health researchers to develop proposals, papers, public datasets, and open-source software to conduct and disseminate research. This may include extended collaborative support efforts as well as performing research.

• Developing, implementing, and refining training materials relating to research computing and research data through synchronous and asynchronous workshops, web-based tutorials, and documentation.

• Engaging with the broader national research computing effort through participation in workshops, conferences, and training and networking activities.

Research Computing Facilitators typically work with researchers both in person and remotely, and ICER works in a hybrid (partially in-person) work environment. While we anticipate that a successful applicant would start in Fall 2026, a later start date may be possible.

For consideration under this posting, a candidate must be a U.S. citizen.

Required Degree

Doctorate -PhD in any field that included a significant research computing component.

Minimum Requirements

• A PhD in any field that included a significant research computing component.

• Research experience that includes the application of advanced computing to solve research problems.

• Strong technical and problem-solving skills, including Linux command line experience and programming experience with a modern language such as R, Python, or C++.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Desired Qualifications

In addition to the required qualifications, it is desired that a successful applicant would have one or more of the following qualifications:

• Experience with computational research relating to human health (e.g., genomics, medical imaging).

• Experience with creating and using virtual machines (with, e.g., VirtualBox or Parallels Desktop), software containers (with, e.g., Docker, Singularity, or a similar tool), and/or creating workflows using these tools.

• Experience in developing research-focused software applications, particularly using modern software development tools such as version control and continuous integration.

• Experience with developing data analysis and/or data management pipelines in high-level scripting languages.

• Experience with the management or coordination of research software development projects, particularly in an open source/community context.

• Experience using machine learning and/or artificial intelligence techniques to solve scientific problems (including, e.g., the use of common tools such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, scikit-learn, Hugging Face).

• Training in, or professional experience contributing toward, the development of skills such as research facilitation, conflict negotiation, communication, teamwork, leadership, and/or project management in the context of multidisciplinary research teams.

• Experience with proposal development and/or coordination.

Required Application Materials

Resume, cover letter and three professional references.

Special Instructions

Application Review

Applications will be reviewed beginning September 14, 2026. Late submissions will be considered if a suitable candidate pool is not identified by the deadline. Please contact Dr. Brian O'Shea, ICER Director, at [email protected] for more information.

Review of Applications Begins On

09/14/2026

Website

ICER.MSU.EDU

Advertised: Aug 4, 2026 Eastern Daylight Time
Applications close: Aug 4, 2028 Eastern Daylight Time