Researcher On Computer Architecture For Ai – Ai4S (R2)

Context And Mission

Applications are invited for postdoc positions at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS). Research activities will be focused on one or several of the following topics, among others:

1. Virtual memory management: Acceleration of virtual to physical address translation, hardware support for OS, management of irregular workloads.

2. High-performance computing architectures: Acceleration of floating-point intensive workloads via reconfigurable or vector processors.

3. Cache management policies for graph and strongly irregular workloads.

4. Numerical libraries for scientific computing with focus on long vector architectures.

Experience in some of these topics is strongly appreciated.

The funding for these actions/fellowships and contracts comes from the European Union Recovery and Resilience Facility – Next Generation, within the framework of the General Invitation by the public business entity Red.es to participate in the talent attraction and retention programs within Investment 4 of Component 19 of the Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan.

For more information, please check: https://www.bsc.es/join-us/excellence-career-opportunities/ai4s

Key Duties

Formulate and evaluate new ideas in a rigorous way

Write technical reports and papers

Use and extend scientific code (Tensorflow, simulators, parallel runtime systems, etc.)

Requirements

Education

PhD in Computer Science or close area

Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience

Computer Architecture: micro-architecuture, instruction-set architecture, cache hierarchy, simulation techniques

Artificial Intelligence: rule-based reasoning, decision trees, support vector machines, neural networks

Programming: C/C++, OpenMP/MPI, CUDA, etc

Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience

Performance Analysis and Tuning of parallel applications

Operating Systems: Linux, scripting, OS scheduler

Competences

Ability to take initiative and prioritize

Ability to work independently and in a team

Capacity to interact and build strong relations with other research groups

Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

Conditions

The position will be located at BSC within the Computer Sciences Department

We offer a full-time contract (37.5h/week), a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art infrastructure, flexible working hours, extensive training plan, restaurant tickets, private health insurance

Duration: 4 years

Holidays: 23 paid vacation days plus 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement

Salary: 45.000,00€

Additional Expenses Grant: Each fellowship will be associated with a grant for additional expenses, such as IT equipment, travel, training, stays, etc.

Starting date: asap – the incorporation for this vacancy must be before the 16th of December 2024

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