Snr Execution Framework Engineer

SUMMARY:
A well-established national research foundation is seeking to appoint a Snr Execution Framework Engineer.

POSITION INFO:

Minimum Education and Experience:

• Degree/ Masters/ PHD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Astronomy or Astronomy techniques, Physics, or related fields
• Degree coupled 9 years relevant working experience, or Masters Degree coupled with 7 years relevant working experience
• or PHD coupled with 5 years relevant working experience in software engineering, high performance algorithms development
• Experience with distributed data-intensive processing and algorithm development, ideally both from a design and application perspective.
• Expertise in hybrid software development in Python and C/C++ programming languages.
• Experience with profiling and optimisation techniques, especially how to build high performance pipelines overlapping I/O and processing.
• Experience with physical data modelling, both for efficient in-memory & network data exchange as well as storage (e.g. Apache Arrow, HDF5 or equivalent)
• Understanding of data processing algorithms, such as Fourier transformations, gridding and (de)convolution methods.
• Knowledge of radio astronomy data processing pipelines and their scaling properties would be advantageous.
• Common radio astronomy instrumentation: spectrometers, correlators, beamformers and pulsar timing machines and transient search machines.
• Systems Engineering processes.

• Design, implementation and verification of high-speed digital computer and electronics hardware and systems.
• System Engineering life cycle processes, including documentation, requirement analysis, architecture design, implementation, integration, and acquisition.
• Parallel implementations of Data Processing components, pipelines, and astronomy algorithms
• Comprehension of MPI, DASK and other High Performance Computing frameworks and interfaces
• Linux operating system and standard tools.