Software Engineer position at ASIAA

A full-time software engineer position is available to work on software development and data management for the Greenland Telescope Project (GLT). The Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) group at ASIAA is working on the GLT project in collaboration with international partners, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) with Sub-millimeter Array (SMA), and the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii, to observe directly the supermassive black holes for the first time. Under the EHT collaboration, the VLBI group is further joining in the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Phase-up Project (APP), for which our roles are the developments of the DiFX (Distributed FX-style software correlator) enhancement and the VLBI data simulator. For these projects, the VLBI group is looking for a software engineer who is interested in astronomy and is willing to learn VLBI techniques.

Work together with scientists to develop softwares for the GLT project and the APP project.

Manage the software correlator DiFX at ASIAA, including Linux cluster maintenance, expansion, software installation, and upgrade.

Perform data correlation for the GLT commissioning and VLBI observations.

Academic thinking skills

Master degree in Computer Science or Mathematics or physics

Programming experience with several programming languages, such as C/C++, Python and bash shell scrip

Fluent in English (oral and written)

Experience with Linux

Experience with parallel computing (OpenMP and/or MPI) and/or CUDA is a plus

In accordance with Academia Sinica system, depending on the degree of qualification.

Applicants should submit personal resume, transcript and arrange at least two letters of recommendation via email to Dr. M. Inoue (email：inoueasiaa.sinica.edu.tw), by November 30, 2015. All the documents should be provided in English.

Dr. M. Inoue, email：inoueasiaa.sinica.edu.tw