Postdoctoral Appointee – Differentiable and Portable Linear Solvers
- Argonne National Laboratory
- Location: Lemont, USA
- Job Number: 7239531 (Ref #: 418053)
- Posting Date: Apr 26, 2024
Job Description
Our 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 tackle some of the world’s largest and most complex challenges with our unique combination of supercomputing resources and computational science expertise.
Our applied mathematics group is seeking a Postdoctoral Appointee to conduct research and development on differentiable and portable linear solvers tailored for advanced numerical simulations. This role will require the postdoc to work within a multi-disciplinary setting, facilitating interactions with a diverse range of experts across a broad spectrum of scientific computing, including HPC, automatic differentiation, and optimization. You will be expected to present and publish their findings at leading scientific symposia and in prestigious journals, contributing to the advancement of scalable and efficient computational methods.
Position Requirements
Required skills and qualifications:
- A recent or soon-to-completed Ph.D. (within the last 0-5 yes) in computational science with a focus on linear solvers.
- Software development skill in programming languages such as C,C++, and Julia. Experience in GPU programming.
- Effective written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to model Argonne's core values of impact, safety, respect, integrity and teamwork.
Desired skills and qualifications:
- Experience with automatic differentiation and generation of derivatives.
- Experience with machine learning methods.
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