Missions

Provide technical leadership for HPC software developments for the European ERC Advanced Grant ODELIX project. Promote the software to the academic world. Promote associated scientific results through publications and applications.

Activités

• Participation in the development of three open source HPC software libraries in C++:
∘ The JIL library for fast computations with straight-line programs.
∘ A library for sparse interpolation of polynomials.
∘ A library for reliable numerical homotopy continuations.
• Creation of interfaces for C, Flint, Julia, and Mathemagix.
• Steering these development projects, especially their collaborative aspects.
• Documentation and assistance with website creation.
• Design and management of automatic tests.
• Organize and monitor application packaging and the distribution of our software.
• The developments carried out by the engineer mainly concern basic HPC software libraries for the ODELIX project. Other project members may use these libraries to develop their own software. The engineer will organize training and technical support for these high-level applications.
• Provide advice and expertise. In particular, help define the software design.
• Maintain a technology watch both for hardware (CPU, GPU, TPU) and for the intended or envisaged applications.
• Participation in scientific publications on the software aspects of the ODELIX project.

Compétences

Knowledge
• Project management methodology (in-depth knowledge)
• Software engineering (in-depth knowledge)
• Modern HPC architectures (CPU, SIMD, GPU, TPU, MPI).
• Programming languages (C++, assembler, Julia)
• Quality methods, tools, standards and procedures (in-depth knowledge)
• Management techniques
• Technical English
Operational skills
• Exceptional software development skills
• Project management
• Teamwork
• Implement a quality approach
• Management of changes
• Evaluate an IT solution
• Lead a meeting or organize a conference
• Initiate and lead partnerships
• Monitor technological developments

Contexte de travail

The Computer Science Laboratory of the École Polytechnique (LIX) is a joint CNRS and École Polytechnique unit (UMR 7161), and has Inria as a partner. The recruited engineer will be assigned to the “Algebraic Modeling and Symbolic Computation” (MAX) team, composed of six permanent researchers and lecturer-researchers, two research engineers, and several doctoral students. His/her work will be carried out under the supervision of Joris van der Hoeven (CNRS research director) within the framework of the European Advanced Grant ODELIX project (Solving differential equations fast, precisely, and reliably). Teleworking is possible for one or two days per week.

Contraintes et risques

None.