Tips on how to recruit data scientist in Ohio

[Mads]

Living and working in Norway I am not sure about this; What would be the best way to recruit personnell (US citizens only due to security clearance requirements) with work experience in things like scientific computing, ray tracing/wave propagation simulation, tomography type of analysis - using C++/C# and GPUs (CUDA/OptiX e.g). in Ohio?

(My first guess for this would be to look at former students from the mechanical or biomedical departments at the local Universities, but the feedback I have had so far on that is that the top students from UC and OU typically get recruited quickly and relocate...and that perhaps this would better fit someone with a computer science background...)

The work involves data acquisition, signal analysis and motion control which are things LabVIEW-developers often have experience with, and hearing about this recruitment challenge I first thought about JKI e.g., but the company in question wants to  recruit someone to work in-house, be located in Cincinnati (no relocation package)...and implement some heavy lifting using CUDA/OptiX or similar, so it is not a LabVIEW or consultancy job.

Any tips (apart from hiring a local recruitment firm...), or someone who knows any suitable candidates (again - US citizens only)?

[crossrulz]

6 hours ago, Mads said:

(My first guess for this would be to look at former students from the mechanical or biomedical departments at the local Universities, but the feedback I have had so far on that is that the top students from UC and OU typically get recruited quickly and relocate...and that perhaps this would better fit someone with a computer science background...)

The work involves data acquisition, signal analysis and motion control which are things LabVIEW-developers often have experience with, and hearing about this recruitment challenge I first thought about JKI e.g., but the company in question wants to  recruit someone to work in-house, be located in Cincinnati (no relocation package)...and implement some heavy lifting using CUDA/OptiX or similar, so it is not a LabVIEW or consultancy job.

My part of the world! Unfortunately, I don't have any connections to the realm you are talking about. But I would look at Northern Kentucky University (just across the Ohio river) as they have a good CS program (or at least used to). There is also Miami University (not to be confused with the one in Florida), Wright State University (where I got my MSE), and University of Dayton about an hour north of here in the Dayton area. University of Kentucky is about 2 hours south (Lexington, Kentucky), which is about the same distance from Ohio University (Athens) or THE Ohio State University (Columbus).

[jyoung8711]

My part of the world as well! (Columbus based)

How committed is the company to hiring someone directly? My company has resources that could potentially help with this.  It's outside of my personal wheelhouse, but I am relatively local and can travel to the client.  The resources we have are a bit scattered, but I could be a local face.  The project itself specifically seems to align pretty closely with work our CTO has before (wave equation, imaging analysis & CUDA work) -- everyone would be US citizens as well.

So it might be a good fit skill wise, but unsure if they'd be willing consider something like this.  

If you think it might work, happy to provide some contact information and we can move this chat elsewhere!