Chord Research Associate

2 weeks ago

Toronto, Canada University of Toronto Full time

**Date Posted**:05/12/2023
**Req ID**: 31266
**Faculty/Division**: Faculty of Arts & Science
**Department**: Dunlap Inst. for Astronomy & Astrophysic
**Campus**: St. George (Downtown Toronto)

**Description**:
At the Long Wavelength Lab (LW Lab) we build some of the world’s largest radio correlators. Under the general direction of Prof. Keith Vanderlinde, the responsibilities of this position centre around design and implementation of high-throughput signal processing software for use on the Canadian Hydrogen Observatory and Radio-transient Detector (CHORD)’s GPU-based correlator and beamformer, and on outlying antenna stations. The CHORD correlator will continuously process ~10 Tb/s of radio data, performing Peta-scale processing on a dedicated supercomputer cluster with 100+ GPUs and 1000+ CPU cores. With this position you will have the opportunity to work with cutting edge software and hardware, contribute to open-source software projects, and help to enable groundbreaking scientific discoveries. This position interacts with and supports other members of the CHORD collaboration, located at several universities across Canada & the US. In all these activities, there is the expectation that the appointee will supervise the work of undergraduates and graduate students.

The appointment is for two years, renewable for at least another two and further as funding allows. The start date is July 1, 2023 or as mutually agreed.

The Dunlap Institute, DADDAA and CITA together host more than 150 staff and students in astronomy, who conduct a diverse research program across instrumentation, observation, computation and theory. The Dunlap Institute is located on a beautiful 19th century campus in the heart of one of the world’s great cities. Rated as having one of the highest standards of living in the world, Toronto offers a huge range of indoor and outdoor pursuits, outstanding food and music, and a vibrant and diverse cultural community.

**Qualifications**:
**MINIMUM**:
**EDUCATION**:

- PhD or equivalent certification in astrophysics, astronomy, physics, computer engineering or computer science

**EXPERIENCE**:

- Experience organizing a team of student researchers on complex data analyses.
- At least one year of relevant postdoctoral experience
- Some understanding of radio astronomical instrumentation and polarization calibration
- Demonstrable contributions to scientific research in the capacity of high-performance computing, high-level distributed software, or high-throughput signal processing software.
- Experience developing research processes
- Experience contributing to large-scale astrophysics research
- Demonstrated track record of academic and/or research excellence
- Experience with analyzing, designing, testing, installing, debugging, modifying, upgrading, operating and maintaining custom software environments.
- Experience working with industry standard development tools (e.g git) and programming best practices.
- Experience working in Linux/Unix based heterogeneous and massively parallel computing environments.

**SKILLS**:

- Advanced skills in radio interferometry, large-scale distributed data processing, radio astronomy pipelines or transient science
- Demonstrated excellence at scientific writing and publishing
- Demonstrated ability to work with students
- Demonstrated ability to handle several tasks, and effectively prioritize and meet multiple deadlines.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively with a team

**OTHER**:
Assets (non-essential)
- Experience with GPU programming (CUDA or OpenCL).
- Experience with massively-parallel computation.
- Experience with designing REST APIs.
- Experience managing continuous integration/regression testing.
- Experience with event driven programming models.
- Familiarity with using Docker containers.

This role is currently eligible for a hybrid work arrangement, pursuant to University policies and guidelines, including but not limited to the University of Toronto’s Alternative Work Arrangements Guideline.”

If you have any questions about Alternative Work Arrangements in general, please visit:
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**Closing Date**:06/09/2023,11:59PM ET
**Employee Group**: Research Associate
**Appointment Type**: Grant - Term
**Schedule**: Full-Time
**Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone**:R01 - Research Associates (Limited Term): $47,287 - $88,663
**Job Category**: Research Administration & Teaching

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