Postdoctoral Appointee – Super Computing and Python
- Argonne National Laboratory
- Location: Lemont, IL
- Job Number: 7106367 (Ref #: 413782)
- Posting Date: Jul 26, 2022
- Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
Job Description
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility’s (ALCF) mission is to accelerate major scientific discoveries and engineering breakthroughs for humanity by designing and providing world-leading computing facilities in partnership with the computational science community. We help researchers solve some of the world’s largest and most complex problems with our unique combination of supercomputing resources and computational science expertise.
Novel technologies, including JAX, numba and GPU-accelerated numpy, are rising in prominence in the high-performance computing space. ALCF’s data science group seeks a post-doctoral appointee to port and develop software into portable, interoperable applications in python using high performance python packages. The successful candidate will collaborate with diverse colleagues and researchers from the data science team and with computer scientists and domain scientists within and outside Argonne. The candidate will be expected to present and publish their work at major conferences and journals.
In this role, you will:
- Create workloads and benchmarks to ensure portable and performant application of data science workloads across a variety of hardware systems, including Polaris and Aurora.
- Collaborate with domain scientists to improve and enable their workloads on highly accelerated systems.
- Explore python interoperability practices, including GPU preprocessing and copy-free data movement between frameworks such as numpy and tensorflow.
- Expect your work to span a wide variety of science domains and to be at the forefront of data-centric computing.
Position Requirements
Required skills and qualifications:
- A recent Ph.D. (typically completed within 3 years) in computer science, computational science, or a related field
- Experience with Python programming
- Ability to quickly assimilate new subject areas and effectively interact with experts in those areas
- Effective written and communication skills
- Experience and skills in interdisciplinary teams involving mathematicians, and discipline scientists
- Collaborative skills including the ability to work well with other laboratories and centers, and industry
Preferred skills:
- Experience with any python key libraries such as JAX, Numba, NumPy, SciPy, TensorFlow and/or PyTorch
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