Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Cap-Exempt H-1B Position — No lottery required
Requisition Id 16230 **Overview:** The National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) at Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL), which hosts several of the world’s most powerful computer systems, is seeking highly qualified individuals to play a key role in designing, developing, and deploying data management tools and persistent services that support scientific and AI/ML campaigns that run on NCCS computing infrastructure, including the world’s first exaflop system, Frontier. **The Team:** As a Lead Research Software Engineer (RSE) in the Data and Platform Services (DAPS) group, you will work within the HPC Operations Section. The DAPS group designs and operates data management platforms, tools, and services for the end-to-end data lifecycle from ingestion to publication and supports several large initiatives and facilities at ORNL. Our primary development and deployment platform is the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) Slate Service, built on Kubernetes and Rancher, which provides a container orchestration service for running critical operation applications and user-managed persistent applications that run alongside our OLCF supercomputer systems and other OLCF managed HPC clusters. **The Role:** As a Lead Research Software Engineer, you will design, implement, operate, and maintain federated data platforms, data management portals, data processing pipelines, API gateways, and persistent services for the entire data lifecycle on our on-premises Kubernetes clusters, with a strong focus on innovation, scalability, reliability, and maintainability. You will also assist with AI initiatives at OLCF, evaluate and integrate key data engineering and MLOps technologies, be an individual contributor for medium sized projects, and collaborate with Platform engineers in delivering a robust set of production services for OLCF users. This role requires: significant experience with data management platforms and tools, significant experience with full stack application and