Job Opportunities
MCS Positions
- Systems Administration Specialist
- Computational Scientist
- Postdoctoral Researcher - Statistical Analysis of Very Large Scale Data Sets
- Postdoctoral Researcher - Optimization Algorithms and Software for Communication
- Postdoctoral Researcher - Performance Tuning
- Computational Postdoc Fellowships
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Wilkinson Fellowship 2009
The Wilkinson Fellowship is intended to encourage scientists actively engaged in state-of-the-art research in scientific computing. The benefits of the appointment include a highly competitive salary, moving expenses, and a generous professional travel allowance. For additional details, including past recipients, see webpage and description below.
Systems Administration Specialist
MCS Core Systems Group
Argonne National Laboratory invites candidates to apply for a Systems Administration Specialist position in the Core Systems Group in the Mathematics and Computer Science (MCS) Division.
As a member of the MCS Systems Group, the successful candidate will participate in the technical operation and support of the divisional computing infrastructure and High Performance Computing (HPC) facilities in order to enhance the productivity of the scientific staff, administrative staff, and research colleagues of the division. With the MCS technical staff and colleagues at other labs and universities, assists with the coordination of similar systems. Special emphasis of this position is to lead efforts in building and maintaining Linux and Solaris servers, running and maintaining common services (mailing lists, NFS, tape backup, web services), managing virtual machine infrastructure, assisting in HPC resource management and maintenance, creating technical documentation for end-users and internal use, and general day-to-day support activities of the Systems group.
Comprehensive knowledge of and expertise in UNIX systems administration, with emphasis on Linux and Solaris. Comprehensive knowledge of and expertise in networked file systems including NFS and SMB. Comprehensive knowledge and expertise in systems adminstration tools such as Nagios, syslog-ng, and Ganglia and languages of Perl, Python, C, PHP, Java, and shell. Considerable knowledge of current IT services, including TCP/IP and related protocols. Good familiarity with the hardware and software of mass storage systems and technologies used such as RAID, iSCSI, Fibre Channel.
Applicants should possess a B.S. degree and 6-8 years experience or an M.S. degree and 2-3 years experience or a PhD with 0-1 year of experience. To apply via the Argonne website under job openings for job requisition 315767 candidates should submit a resume/curriculum vitae and the names of three references.
The MCS Division offers an excellent computational environment for this work, including several large Linux clusters, a world-renowned distributed systems laboratory, and a virtual environments laboratory. For more information, see the MCS Web page. http://www.mcs.anl.gov.
Argonne is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity in our workforce. A U.S. Department of Energy laboratory managed by UChicago Argonne, LLC.
Computational Scientist
Petascale computers are revolutionizing our ability to address complex problems in science and engineering. To exploit the growing numbers of opportunities, Argonne's Leadership Computing Initiative is seeking outstanding individuals to build and expand successful computational science and engineering groups at Argonne.
Who is eligible?
The typical candidates will have a Ph.D. In a relevant field (listed below) and 15 years of experience, or the equivalent.
What are the focus areas?
The focus areas of the new initiative span a wide range of disciplines at the leading edge of basic and applied research:
* including materials science (e.g., materials discovery and design; catalyst design; nanoscience)
* X-ray science
* accelerator science and technology
* energy technologies (e.g., energy storage, transportation, solar, and nuclear),
* biological systems (e.g., genomics and protein science)
* climate change (e.g., high-resolution models, ecosystems, energy, economics)
* fundamental science and engineering (e.g., nuclear physics, high energy physics, chemistry, process engineering.
How does computational science fit in?
The selected candidates will lead and conduct basic or applied research in one of the focus areas, using innovative computational methods on leadership-class scalable parallel computers. They will develop multidisciplinary initiatives, drawing on the wide array of expertise of Argonne researchers and colleagues in other labs, universities, and industry.
What high-performance facilities are available for research?
Argonne operates a full spectrum of high- performance computing resources that are upgraded regularly. At the top is the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, which currently operates a 557-teraflops IBM Blue Gene/P system for production scientific and engineering computing and another 14-teraflops Blue Gene/P system for software development, software testing, and tool and application porting. Argonne also provides a 26- teraflops computing cluster to facilitate mid-range computing in all of the scientific programs of the laboratory. Many divisions and groups operate clusters as well. Complementing these resources are Argonne's high-performance computing tools, libraries, and solvers, which enable researchers to address complex problems on advanced computing platforms. Moreover, Argonne has just completed a new Theory and Computing Sciences (TCS) building designed to house the laboratory's state-of-the-art computational resources and provide scientists a venue for interdisciplinary meetings.
How does one apply?
Interested candidates should apply online for the position of Sr. Computational Scientist #314962 and submit the following for full consideration:
* Curriculum vitae
* Research accomplishments (up to 5 pages)
* List of publications, major software developed, and significant presentations
* Brief statement of research interests
The home research division will be determined based on the candidate's discipline and areas of interest. Joint appointments with universities may also be considered. For technical questions, please contact Dr. Raymond Bair at rbair@anl.gov.
Postdoctoral Researcher – Statistical Analysis of Very Large Scale Data Sets
Postdoctoral Appointee, LANS
The Mathematics and Computer Science (MCS) Division at Argonne National Laboratory invites outstanding candidates to apply for a postdoctoral position focusing on the development of new statistical analysis methods for very large scale data sets.
The successful candidate will be part of an integrated team led by Dr. Mihai Anitescu of Argonne and Prof. Michael Stein of the University of Chicago that includes computational mathematicians, statisticians, computer scientists and domain scientists. Research topics include novel covariance functions for spatio-temporal data sets and scalable linear algebra and optimization methods for the analysis of large scale data sets. The successful candidate will participate at all the stages of the implementation of the resulting methods from prototyping in high-level languages to the development in a high performance computing environment.
The position requires comprehensive expertise in a scientific programming language (C, C++, Fortran) and either computational mathematics or statistics. The position requires considerable knowledge in one or more of the following areas: Numerical Optimization, Numerical Linear Algebra, Statistics, Scientific Programming Languages (one of C,C++, Fortran), High-level Programming Language (one of Matlab, R), Parallel Programming with MPI.
The appointment will be in the MCS Division, which has strong programs computational mathematics, scientific computing, and software tools. Argonne is located in the southwestern Chicago suburbs, offering the advantages of affordable housing, good schools, and easy access to the cultural attractions of the city.
Candidates should submit an application via the Argonne website under division postdoctoral job openings for job requisition 315781. The application must include a curriculum vitae; list of publications, abstracts, and significant presentations; and the names of three references, other than Argonne staff, who can attest to the candidate's ability and potential.
For further information about division postdoctoral appointments at Argonne, see the http://www.dep.anl.gov/Postdocs/divisionpostdoc.htm. Questions can be addressed to Dr. Mihai Anitescu, MCS Division at Argonne or Prof. Michael Stein at the University of Chicago by e-mail to anitescu@mcs.anl.gov or stein@galton.uchicago.edu.
A U.S. Department of Energy laboratory managed by UChicago Argonne, LLC, Argonne is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity in our workforce.
Postdoctoral Researcher -- Optimization Algorithms and Software for Communication
Postdoctoral Appointee, LANS
The Mathematics and Computer Science (MCS) Division at Argonne National Laboratory invites outstanding candidates to apply for a postdoctoral position focusing on the development of new optimization methods for automatic tuning of high performance computing codes on future extreme scale architectures.
The successful candidate will work as part of a multidisciplinary research team involving mathematicians, computer scientists, and computational scientists through the newly formed CACHE Institute. Candidates should have a background in one or more of the following: numerical analysis, optimization, scientific computing, and Fortran/C/C++. Experience with the development of nonlinear and integer optimization techniques is a plus.
The appointment will be in the MCS Division, which has strong programs in scientific computing, software tools, and computational mathematics. Argonne is located in the southwestern Chicago suburbs, offering the advantages of affordable housing, good schools, and easy access to the cultural attractions of the city.
Candidates should submit an application via the Argonne website under division postdoctoral job openings for job requisition 315780. The application must include a curriculum vitae; list of publications, abstracts, and significant presentations; and the names of three references, other than Argonne staff, who can attest to the candidate's ability and potential.
For further information about division postdoctoral appointments at Argonne, see the website. Questions can be addressed to Stefan Wild or Paul Hovland, MCS Division, by e-mail to wild@mcs.anl.gov or hovland@mcs.anl.gov.
A U.S. Department of Energy laboratory managed by UChicago Argonne, LLC, Argonne is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity in our workforce.
Postdoctoral Researcher – Performance Tuning
Postdoctoral Appointee, LANS
The Mathematics and Computer Science (MCS) Division at Argonne National Laboratory invites outstanding candidates to apply for a postdoctoral position focusing on researching new methods and developing tools for semi-automated performance tuning of scientific applications. This work will involve extending or interfacing to existing open-source compiler software and program analysis libraries to obtain the data dependence information required for valid source transformation.
The appointment will be in the MCS Division, which has strong programs in scientific computing, software tools, and computational mathematics. Candidates should have a background in one or more of the following: program analysis and compiler design, designing and developing large software packages, C, C++, and Python programming under Unix. Considerable knowledge in one or more of the following areas: performance analysis, component software, parallel computing is a plus.
Internationally recognized for innovative research in high-performance computing, the MCS Division supports an excellent computational environment that includes access to a scientific visualization laboratory and a distributed computing laboratory. Argonne is located in the southwestern Chicago suburbs, offering the advantages of affordable housing, good schools, and easy access to the cultural attractions of the city.
Candidates should submit an application via the Argonne website under division postdoctoral job openings for job requisition mcs-314106. The application must include a curriculum vitae; list of publications, abstracts, and significant presentations; and the names of three references, other than Argonne staff, who can attest to the candidate's ability and potential.
For further information about the Argonne division postdoctoral appointments, see the website. Questions can be addressed to Dr. Giselle Sandi in the Division of Educational Programs, by e-mail to gsandi@anl.gov.
A U.S. Department of Energy laboratory managed by UChicago Argonne, LLC.
Argonne is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity in our workforce.
Computational Postdoctoral Fellowship
Advanced computers are revolutionizing our ability to address complex problems in science and engineering. To stimulate research in computational science, Argonne has inaugurated an exciting new Computational Postdoctoral Fellowship program for outstanding new Ph.D.s.
Fellows will carry out research in a computational science or engineering discipline, selected from a wide variety of areas including biological science, chemistry, earth science, engineering, materials science, nuclear energy, physics, and energy science. The home research division of each fellow will be determined based on discipline and areas of interest.
Fellows will develop and implement advanced computational approaches aimed at scaling applications for high-end computing systems. Using these advanced approaches, the fellows will conduct large-scale simulations on leadership-class computers with the objective of producing breakthrough research in the scientific disciplines of interest. Fellows will interact with both divisional researchers and staff of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) to best utilize high-performance computers.
The ALCF operates a 557-teraflop IBM Blue Gene/P system for production scientific and engineering computing and a 13.9-teraflop IBM Blue/Gene P system for system software development, software testing, and tool and application porting. Argonne also has a teraflop-class computing cluster, called Jazz, to facilitate mid-range computing in all of the scientific programs of the laboratory.
Ph.D. requirements must be completed by commencement of appointment. Fellows must have received their Ph.D. recently. Interested candidates should apply to cpf-fellow@anl.gov. The subject line should include the candidate's name and discipline of interest. Application packages must consist of the following:
- Curriculum vitae
- Research proposal (< 2 pages)
- List of publications and significant presentations
A multidisciplinary selection committee will review application material. Fellows will be selected based on their academic background, knowledge of and expertise in high-performance computational science, and possible impact to a particular research program as described in their proposal. Fellowships are awarded for a one-year term, with possible renewal for a second year.
Argonne offers an excellent compensation and benefits package. For full consideration, please send a curriculum vitae, statement of research interests, list of publications, and professional references to the Argonne job website for Requisition CLS-314633. Argonne is a U.S. Department of Energy laboratory managed by UChicago Argonne, LLC.
Argonne is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity in our workforce.
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Wilkinson Fellowship 2009
The Mathematics and Computer Science (MCS) Division of Argonne National Laboratory invites outstanding candidates to apply for the J. H. Wilkinson Fellowship in Scientific Computing. The appointment is for one year and may be renewed for another year.
This fellowship was created in memory of Dr. James Hardy Wilkinson, F.R.S., who had a close association with the Mathematics and Computer Science Division as a consultant and guiding spirit for the EISPACK and LINPACK projects. The Wilkinson Fellowship is intended to encourage scientists actively engaged in state-of-the-art research in scientific computing. Candidates must have received a recent Ph.D. prior to the beginning of the appointment. The benefits of the appointment include a highly competitive salary, moving expenses, and a generous professional travel allowance. For additional details, including past recipients, see webpage.
The appointment will be in the MCS Division, which has strong programs in scientific computing, software tools, and computational mathematics. Of special interest are algorithms and software for linear algebra, optimization, differential equations, computational differentiation, stochastic systems, and unstructured mesh computations; software tools for parallel computing; and numerical methods for computational science problems. For further information, see LANS website.
Internationally recognized for innovative research in high-performance computing, the MCS Division supports an excellent computational environment that includes large Linux clusters, a distributed systems laboratory, and a virtual environments laboratory. Researchers also have access to a Blue Gene/L supercomputer.
Argonne is located in the southwestern Chicago suburbs, offering the advantages of affordable housing, good schools, and easy access to the cultural attractions of the city.
Candidates should start the application process at this link. The application must include a curriculum vitae; statement of research interests; a list of publications, abstracts, and significant presentations; and three letters of recommendation. Applications will be accepted starting August 31, 2009. Applications received before December 15, 2009, are assured maximum consideration. The closing date for applications is January 15, 2010. Application material will be reviewed by a selection committee and a candidate announced in March 2010.
Argonne Positions
For other current job opportunities at Argonne National Laboratory, see the Argonne Web page.
NOTE: The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) has open positions; please see the Web page.
