Research Performance Engineer Irish Centre for High-End Computing, NUI Galway National University of Ireland Galway

Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for a full-time, fixed term position as a Research Performance Engineer with the Irish Centre for High End Computing (ICHEC) at the National University of Ireland, Galway.  The successful candidate can choose to be based in ICHEC’s offices in either Dublin or Galway.  The position is available immediately to contract end date of 31^st December 2020, subject of one year probationary period.  

Job Description:

ICHEC is the national High-Performance Computing (HPC) in Ireland and is a centre of domain, systems and software expertise that provides high performance software solutions to academia, industry and state bodies, through partnership, knowledge transfer, project delivery and service provision. ICHEC operates the national HPC service providing compute resources and software expertise for the research communities across all the main science disciplines through collaborative partnerships and programmes of education and outreach.  

Working with industry partners, the job will focus on investigating new approaches, developing new software, as well as refactoring/optimizing existing software (performance engineering), with the general goal of increasing the performance and energy efficiency of software applications on a range of emerging many-core platforms, including emerging extreme scale systems.  

Qualifications:

Applicants must have a Ph.D. or equivalent experience (min. 4+ yrs.) in computational science/computer science, or a related discipline. In particular the candidate should be able to demonstrate a track record in an R&D environment, with strong software development experience in C/C++, CUDA, OpenMP, OpenCL being highly desirable. The ideal candidate would have; in-depth knowledge of parallel programming and performance analysis at node and cluster levels, as well as scaling and optimising applications on at least one of the following platforms (GPU, Xeon Phi, FPGA). Experience in scaling applications on large-scale clusters as well as development experience in a technical computing domain (e.g., oil & gas, finance, weather, machine learning). Candidates should also have excellent communication and organisational skills; be highly motivated to develop and enhance software; and have strong documentation, oral and interpersonal skills.   

Salary: €51,716 per annum        Start date: Post is open, Immediate.   

Continuing Professional Development/Training:  Researchers at NUI Galway are encouraged to avail of a range of training and development opportunities designed to support their personal career development plans.   

For information on moving to Ireland please see www.euraxess.ie

Further information on NUI Galway is available at http://www.nuigalway.ie/our-research/

Informal enquiries concerning the post may be made to Dr Michael Lysaght, michael.lysaght@ichec.ie 

To Apply:

Applications to include a covering letter, CV,and the contact details of three referees should be sent, via e-mail (in word or PDF only) to recruit@ichec.ie Please put reference number NUIG 052-17 in subject line of e-mail application. 

Closing date for receipt of applications is 4.00 pm Tuesday 2^ndMay 2017. 

National University of Ireland, Galway is an equal opportunities employer.

All positions are recruited in line with Open, Transparent, Merit (OTM) and Competency based recruitment.