Chord Research Associate - Toronto, Canada - University of Toronto

University of Toronto

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Toronto, Canada

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Date Posted:06/05/2023

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 physics

EXPERIENCE:

At least one year of experience in the following:

Of relevant postdoctoral experience
Organizing a team of student researchers on complex data analyses
Some understanding of radio astronomical instrumentation and polarization calibration
Demonstrable contributions to scientific research in the capacity of highperformance computing, highlevel distributed software, or highthroughput signal processing software.
Experience developing research processes
Experience contributing to largescale 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 industrystandard development tools (e.g git) and programming best practices.
Experience working in Linux/Unixbased heterogeneous and massively parallel computing environments.

SKILLS:

Advanced skills in radio interferometry, largescale 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 massivelyparallel computation.
Experience with designing REST APIs.
Experience managing continuous integration/regression testing.
Experience with eventdriven 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.

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Closing Date:07/31/2023,11:59PM 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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