Postdoctoral Appointee - Scientific Computing
- Argonne National Laboratory
- Location: Lemont, IL
- Job Number: 7108398 (Ref #: 413929)
- Posting Date: Aug 19, 2022
- Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
Job Description
The Laboratory for Applied Mathematics, Numerical Software, and Statistics (LANS) in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division (MCS) at Argonne is seeking postdoctoral candidates to develop robust and efficient algebraic solvers, time integrators, numerical optimizers, and related technologies in the open-source PETSc/TAO library targeting exascale supercomputers -- such as the Aurora machine slated to be fielded at Argonne -- and other novel high-performance computing (HPC) architectures.
Position Requirements
- Recent or soon-to-be completed PhD (typically within the last 3 years) in computer science, applied mathematics, or another scientific or engineering field with a strong emphasis on computation.
- Effective communication skills, and a mixture of experience and interest in learning some of the following topics:
- Scalable algebraic solvers, time integrators, numerical optimization and related numerical methods, including mixed-precision and batched solvers; familiarity with using the implementations from or implementing new methods inside PETSc/TAO is a plus
- Collaboration with domain scientists using tools such as PETSc/TAO to solve computational science problems at scale
- Maintainable, high-performance programming techniques for CPUs and GPUs
- Distributed memory parallel programming using MPI
- Cutting-edge HPC architectures and the interplay between architecture and algorithmic design decisions
- Collection and analysis of performance data to guide performance optimization or, in some cases, to completely redesign the parallel codes
- Collaborative software development and devops (Git, continuous integration, etc.), particularly using C or C++
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