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title: "Postdoctoral Researcher — Agentic AI"
description: "Lead the agentic AI orchestration prototype for the NSF MESA project at CARC: self-hosted LLM serving, retrieval over scientific metadata, and the MCP server framework. 1.0 FTE."
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tags:
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  at: "2026-09-05T00:00:00Z"
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# Postdoctoral Researcher — Agentic AI

**1.0 FTE · CARC · MESA Goal 3 lead · UNM Jobs requisition 37416**

**[Apply for this position](https://unm.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/18/home/requisition/37416){target=_blank}**

## The role

You will lead the agentic AI orchestration prototype for
[MESA](https://idss-mesa.github.io/){target=_blank}, the NSF Integrated Data
Systems & Services project based at CARC: self-hosted large language model
serving on vLLM, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines over curated
scientific metadata, and the MESA Model Context Protocol (MCP) server framework
— sandboxing, multi-agent orchestration, and evaluation against real science
use cases from genomics to the Event Horizon Telescope. You will work directly
with the principal investigator at CARC and with partner teams at the
University of Arizona and UNC Chapel Hill / RENCI.

The prototype runs on national infrastructure that is already in place: CARC's
Easley (H100, L40S) and Hopper (A100) GPU clusters, the 5.2 PB iRODS-backed
CyVerse Data Store, and ACCESS-CI and NAIRR allocations including the
Jetstream-2 GPU cloud and the Open Storage Network. The MESA MCP stack is
public and in use against the CyVerse Data Store today.

## What you bring

* A PhD in computer science or a computational science.
* Systems-level Python.
* An interest in how LLM agents should handle petabytes of scientific data
  responsibly.

## What comes with it

A structured mentoring plan, first-author publications, and participation in
the project's TrustedCI security review.

Apply through [UNM Jobs](https://unm.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/18/home/requisition/37416){target=_blank}.
The University of New Mexico is an Equal Opportunity Employer.