Director Center Advanced Research Computing; CARC

Position Summary

Director of the Center for Advanced Research Computing (CARC) posting number req
35099.

Employment Type:

Faculty. Faculty Type:
Open Rank. Hiring Department:
Ctr for Adv. Research Computing (663A). Academic

Location:

Campus Main – Albuquerque, NM. Benefits Eligible:
The University of New Mexico provides a comprehensive package of benefits including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance. In addition, UNM offers educational benefits through the tuition remission and dependent education programs. See the Benefits home page for more information.

The University of New Mexico (UNM) seeks a dynamic, innovative, results-oriented, and proven leader for the position of Director of the Center for Advanced Research Computing (CARC), one of UNM’s premier strategic research centers. The selected candidate will report directly to the Vice President for Research (VPR) and will be open rank determined by the individual’s academic background.

CARC is an internationally recognized center of excellence in advanced computing systems with a long history of research, innovation, and service in computing systems and computational science. The center’s mission is to facilitate cross‑disciplinary computational research at UNM and nationwide by leading multi‑disciplinary research and educational initiatives and by providing advanced computing services to the University community. CARC supported research at UNM includes faculty, staff, and students from many departments, colleges, research centers, and campuses, including the School of Engineering, the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Fine Arts, the Quantum New Mexico Institute, and the UNM Health Sciences Center.

CARC also actively collaborates with faculty and staff across campus and at Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories in educational initiatives to train the next generation of computational experts through programs such as the University’s Computational Science and Engineering graduate certificate program.

To facilitate and execute research and superb educational opportunities in advanced research computing, CARC supports high performance and data intensive computing facilities used by the entire UNM community. These resources, managed directly by CARC staff, include multiple compute clusters that include state‑of‑the‑art GPU resources, dedicated enterprise and high‑performance storage systems, high‑speed networking systems, and a wide range of software packages for use by the community of UNM researchers, including traditional scientific computing applications, state‑of‑the‑art data analytics and machine learning systems.

These systems are housed in CARC's dedicated research data center with multiple UPS systems and cooling systems; UNM is also in the process of upgrading these facilities to support additional computing systems to support emerging research in AI and quantum computing. For a full description of CARC and its activities, please visit (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

The University of New Mexico is classified as a Carnegie Doctoral/Research R1 University-Very High Research Activity. UNM’s fifteen colleges and schools serve a large student population of over 28,000 at its main campus in Albuquerque. UNM provides an excellent environment for research‑university education with experiential learning and training and produces highly trained researchers to our nation.

The successful candidate will:

• Prepare and implement a strategic vision and plan for CARC
• Enhance CARC’s portfolio of external funding by facilitating and catalyzing interdisciplinary computational research by UNM faculty and the acquisition of grants and contracts awarded to support this research
• Supervise CARC staff, projects, operations, facilities, and activities, including those that pertain to research administration functions and compliance with University, State, and Federal policies and regulations
• Fully integrate CARC’s research mission with graduate and undergraduate educational programs across UNM as well as outreach efforts to New Mexico schools and communities
• Establish active collaborative research partnerships both within the University (e.g., other…