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Deploys AI and automation solutions across operational workflows. Identifies opportunities, defines AI strategy, builds agent-based workflows, coordinates delivery and rollout, trains users, measures adoption, and provides technical support. The role partners with functional leads, IT, and cross-functional stakeholders to improve productivity, reduce manual work, assess AI risks, and develop reusable automation patterns using LLMs, Microsoft tools, APIs, databases, and low-code platforms.

Leads the laboratory’s accounts payable and total disbursement function, overseeing invoice payments, travel reimbursements, controls, compliance, audits, metrics, and process improvement. Manages and develops a remote team of ten professionals while partnering with Procurement, Accounting, Business Systems, Travel, and laboratory divisions. Establishes standardized workflows, resolves escalated issues, improves systems and service delivery, and ensures compliance with DOE requirements, CAS, GAAP, OMB Circular A-123, contractual obligations, and Argonne policies.

Leads battery engineering and technical project delivery for the EcoCAR Innovation Challenge. Coordinates sponsors, university teams, research partners, schedules, deliverables, risks, and battery module validation. Supports high-voltage battery architecture, structural integration, pack safety, thermal management, student training, and workforce programming. Applies software engineering and AI/ML to engineering workflows and program operations, while representing STEP through publications, presentations, workshops, and external partnerships.

Supports commercial and non-commercial subcontract procurement from pre-award planning through closeout. Responsibilities include coordinating acquisition activities, maintaining procurement trackers, performing price and cost analyses, negotiating orders, evaluating vendors, determining pricing, ensuring regulatory compliance, and providing proactive service to internal scientific and operational customers.

Owns product backlogs and prioritization for software development projects. Collaborates with stakeholders, Product Managers, Business Application Owners, and Scrum teams to define user stories, acceptance criteria, roadmaps, milestones, and release plans. Leads Agile planning and Scrum events, coordinates user acceptance testing, accepts completed stories, gathers feedback, and drives process improvements. Requires strong leadership, analytical, communication, relationship management, and remote collaboration skills.

Administer and optimize onsite Linux/HPC infrastructure, including clusters, GPU nodes, IBM Storage Scale, InfiniBand networks, PBS Pro scheduling, Globus transfer nodes, monitoring systems, and beamline computing environments. Provide advanced user support, troubleshoot hardware and networking, maintain documentation, implement security practices, and collaborate with researchers to ensure reliable, scalable computational and experimental systems.

Develop and operate scalable AI inference solutions for scientific workflows on HPC systems and AI accelerators. Build Python REST services, integrate AI models, optimize inference performance, and support distributed workloads involving batching, scheduling, memory management, and observability. Collaborate with scientific application teams, academic and industry partners, national laboratories, and agencies to advance AI-enabled scientific computing.

Supports daily payroll transactions, including bi-weekly and monthly processing, timecard review, rate verification, data validation, employee inquiries, service requests, reporting, and records maintenance. Ensures compliance with DOE regulations, federal and state laws, and organizational policies while safeguarding confidential payroll data. Collaborates with Payroll, Human Resources, Legal, and Accounting teams.

Develop and enhance Argonne’s Python-based GREET life cycle assessment software, including architecture, data schemas, calculation engines, APIs, databases, web interfaces, and AI capabilities using LLMs. Conduct energy and environmental LCA studies, build validated data pipelines, collaborate with external researchers and sponsors, publish findings, present results, and lead projects while directing junior staff.

Supports the design, development, integration, and advancement of high-performance computing environments. Manages Linux clusters, software stacks, dependencies, programming environments, containers, compilers, build systems, and job resource managers. Develops automation and Spack package definitions, maintains CI pipelines, troubleshoots dependency conflicts, and collaborates with researchers to refine requirements and support scientific computing workflows. U.S. citizenship is required, and the role may require obtaining government access authorization.