[x3d-public] Job Opening at Virginia Tech Visionarium

[Nicholas Polys]

*Please feel free to email me with your questions and interest!*




 Visualization and Virtual Reality Specialist


 Full-time

The Visionarium Lab at Virginia Tech is an international leader in
immersive and web virtual reality visualization who supports science,
engineering and design activities across the University –
https://vis.arc.vt.edu/ . We are looking for motivated candidates who want
to use 3D graphics and scientific visualization to solve the big problems
at the cutting-edge of research. As part of the Advanced Research Computing
(ARC) group – http://www.arc.vt.edu , the advertised position will work
closely with computational faculty and students and Information Technology
teams to provide high-performance visualization environments.



The position is responsible for maintaining and developing visual computing
systems and solutions for the broad community of Virginia Tech faculty and
student stakeholders; these solutions will be strategic and driven by ARC
leadership. Strong communication skills are valued for interdisciplinary
work. The successful candidate must have experience in the following:
Linux/Unix system administration, Windows system administration,
programming (such as OpenGL, C++, python) and some scene graph technology
for interactive 3D graphics. A BS/BA in Computer Science or a related
engineering discipline is required. Prior experience with immersive VR
systems, software development, SQL/scripting, and/or web standards is a
plus.



Job Training opportunities are available. Salary is commensurate with
experience.



The breakdown of the percent effort for this position is as follows:



*30 % Maintenance, Testing, Quality Assurance*
• Maintain VisCube and lab machines (with patches, new installs, etc.)
• Maintain common user authentication, directory structures and
network-accessible file system (with backups)
• Maintain Visual Computing webservers and multi-user collaboration services
• Maintain common lab equipment such as displays and input devices



*40 % Deployment / Support*
• Deploy and improve the software stack for the Visionarium platforms
• Support day-to-day operations including responding to help tickets

• Provide basic consulting for other visualization and graphics activities
around campus
• Fulfilling user requests such as assisting faculty and students with
setting up visualization pipelines and toolkits
• Support education and outreach activities for interactive 3D
visualization (e.g. online how-tos)

 *20% Development*
• Communication and 3D user interface components for input devices and
output displays
• Script wrappers and processing pipelines for visualizing scientific data
• Services and documentation for visualization processing and rendering



*10% Research*

• Pursue a research agenda and collaborate with other researchers to create
opportunities and proposals for external grants consistent with the goals
of ARC






-- 
Nicholas F. Polys, Ph.D.

Director of Visual Computing
Virginia Tech Research Computing

Affiliate Professor
Virginia Tech Department of Computer Science
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