Chord Computing Specialist

2 weeks ago

Toronto, Canada University of Toronto Full time

**Date Posted**:03/14/2023
**Req ID**: 30264
**Faculty/Division**: Faculty of Arts & Science
**Department**: Dunlap Inst. for Astronomy & Astrophysic
**Campus**: St. George (Downtown Toronto)
**Position Number**: 00051789

**Description**:
**About us**:
The Faculty of Arts & Science is the heart of Canada’s leading university and one of the most comprehensive and diverse academic divisions in the world. The strength of Arts & Science derives from our combined teaching and research excellence in the humanities, sciences and social sciences across 29 departments, seven colleges and 46 interdisciplinary centres, institutes and programs.

We can only realize our mission with the dedication and excellence of engaged staff and faculty. The diversity of opportunities and perspectives within the Faculty reflect the local and global landscape and the need for curiosity, innovative thinking and collaboration. At Arts & Science, we take pride in our legacy of innovation and discovery that has changed the way we think about the world.

At the Long Wavelength Lab (LW Lab) we build some of the world’s largest radio correlators. Under the general direction of the Principal Investigator, this position supports the research team with the 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 withand supports other members of the CHORD collaboration, located at several universities across Canada & the US.

**Your opportunity**:
Under the general direction of the Principal Investigator, this position supports the research team with the 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. This position interacts with and supports other members of the CHORD collaboration, located at several universities across Canada & the US.

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Writing complex technical code; Designing, testing, and modifying programming code
- Writing complex specifications based on system requirements
- Testing and analyzing new and upgraded software and/or hardware
- Analyzing and making recommendations for programming enhancements
- Evaluating programming code to ensure it has validity, compatibility, and that it meets appropriate standards
- Creating complex and technical documentation anduser support guides
- Serving as a resource on specific issues to a group of specialists

**Essential Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering or computer science, or an acceptable equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Minimum four years of recent and related experience with writing modern, high performance, and multithreaded C/C++ software.
- 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.
- Strong working knowledge of Linux/Unix operating systems, computing hardware, networking, systems design and management.
- Excellent organizational and time management skills.
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to handle several tasks, and effectively prioritize and meet multiple deadlines.

**Assets (Nonessential)**:

- Experience with GPU programming (CUDA or OpenCL) is an asset.
- Experience with designing REST APIs.
- Experience managing continuous integration/regression testing.
- Experience with event driven programming models.
- Familiarity with using Docker containers.

**To be successful in this role you will be**:

- Approachable
- Communicator
- Efficient
- Organized
- Problem solver
- Team player

**Closing Date**: 03/22/2023, 11:59PM ET
**Employee Group**: USW
**Appointment Type**: Grant - Term
**Schedule**:
**Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone**:
**Job Category**: Information Technology (IT)
**Recruiter**: Nastassia Jasinski

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