All, In Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann (LJK) [1] in Grenoble [2], we have an opened research engineer position in scientific computing [3]. Below you will find the translation of the job description. The application deposit is open until July 9 2008 at 17h (French Time). You have some questions answered here [4] and a document for the candidate [5] unfortunately in french only. A Phd is required to apply to this position.
You will notice that, as part of the job, the successful candidate will have to strongly interact with the Debian community and in particular the two projects debian-science and pkg-scicomp. Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions regarding this position. 1. http://ljk.imag.fr 2. http://www.grenoble.fr/ 3. http://www.sg.cnrs.fr/drhita/concoursita/consulter/resultats/consulter.htm (job number 74, Region Alpes, third position) 4. http://www.sg.cnrs.fr/drhita/concoursita/savoir/savoir01.htm 5. http://www.sg.cnrs.fr/drhita/concoursita/guide_du_candidat.pdf o Mission: ======== The mission of the research engineer will revolve around 2 axes. On the one hand, she or he will work in research projects in scientific computing, mathematical methods and means to solve problems associated with applications, often as part of multidisciplinary collaborations. On the other hand, it will be the leading person for the use, maintenance, updating and development of a Gforge like development plateform and monitoring of projects, thus streamlining, sustainability and distribution of computational codes developed LJK. o Activities: ========= Key activities: -- Formalize, or help a researcher to formalize a scientific problem, for its modelling, its representation, and its treatment -- Choose the software and hardware, taking into account their performance and their relevance in the context of a given problem or a research project -- Maintain and update the platform LJKforge development, monitoring and testing software -- Facilitate the steering committee of this platform -- To assist researchers in project management and implementation of software tools within the platform -- To promote and facilitate the transfer of knowledge and know-how around this platform -- Participate in the training of numerical intensive computing users and users of LJKForge platform Related Activities: -- Disseminate and develop methods and tools of calculation developed in the laboratory. -- Engaging actively in the Linux Debian distribution, both for programs and libraries for scientific computing platform components Gforge -- Ensure a technology watch on the evolution of hardware architectures, systems and concepts -- Ensure the organization of data from calculations and monitor their operation until they display -- Participate in the maintenance of systems and networks of laboratory and support for users -- Participate in the selection, acquisition and operation of servers calculation o Skills: ====== Skills main Knowledge general, theoretical or disciplinary -- Knowledge and practical depth of the physical modeling and numerical methods for solving PDEs -- Good knowledge and practice of modern tools of development, testing and monitoring software calculation -- Good knowledge and practice of programming techniques, parallelization and optimization codes -- Good knowledge of libraries programmes Scientific Computing -- Good knowledge in scientific visualization software -- General knowledge of computer architecture, distributed systems and operating systems Know-how operational -- Integrating its activities in the evolution of mathematical methods, tools and disciplines of application -- Understand and analyze the scientific problem posed. Evaluate and control the degree of ¿approximation methods used -- Good knowledge in optimization techniques for scientific computing -- Identify the criteria for selecting methods and testing the appropriate scientific issues -- Implement programming languages, including languages C / C + + / Fortran, and techniques parallelization (MPI, OpenMP) -- Working in interaction with one or several research teams in a multidisciplinary context. -- Controlling all methodologies for conducting project Skills associated -- General knowledge in virtualization technology and database -- General knowledge in hotel computer systems ENGLISH -- Writing and Listening: Level 2 -- Reading and Listening: Level 2 o Background: ============ The LJK is a new laboratory in scientific computing, involving teams of mathematicians and specialists in applied computer graphics and computer vision. It develops methods and codes for scientific computing and visualization for a wide variety of applications (mechanical, biology, environment ..). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
