Postdoctoral Research Associate

Postdoctoral Research Associate

About Northeastern:
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experiential approach empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create impact far beyond the confines of discipline, degree, and campus.

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Northeastern's comprehensive array of undergraduate and graduate programs— in a variety of on-campus and online formats—lead to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools. Among these, we offer more than 195 multi-discipline majors and degrees designed to prepare students for purposeful lives and careers.

About the Opportunity:
The Goodwill Computing Lab researches on a variety of computer systems topics including HPC resilience, data center power management, large-scale job scheduling and performance tuning, parallel storage systems and scientific data management. Recent research project details and outcomes can be found in computer systems conference proceedings, such as HPCA, FAST, SC, DSN, HPDC, IPDPS, and DAC.

Responsibilities:
Performs basic or applied research of a limited scope, primarily using existing theories and methods. Assists the supervisor in the interpretation and publication of results and grants. Maintains the laboratory and may exercise functional supervision over supporting research staff. Primary responsibility is ensuring that the research is complete.

The major responsibilities of the post-doctoral candidate includes contributing to multiple projects including resilience-aware scheduling, deep learning workload job scheduling, and storage system performance tuning. The candidate will have the opportunity to engage in multiple projects lead by the graduate students in the group and co-advise the graduate students. The candidate is expected to publish and present research findings in the computer science research conferences.

Qualifications:
PhD in computer science with file systems, GPU architecture experience. Proven ability to articulate research work and findings in peer-reviewed proceedings. Knowledge of systems programming skills and concepts Experience with fundamental OS and storage concepts. Experience with programming heterogenous architecture.


Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with CUDA programming; Experience programming distributed systems; Experience with parallel and distributed File Systems (e.g., Lustre, GPFS, Ceph) development.

Advanced experience with high-performance computing and/or large-scale data centers; Advanced experience with large-scale software development and support; Advanced knowledge of Linux kernel internals and systems programming methods; Advanced knowledge of large-scale application and/or kernel debugging techniques.

Salary Grade:
10

Additional Information:
Northeastern University is an equal opportunity employer, seeking to recruit and support a broadly diverse community of faculty and staff. Northeastern values and celebrates diversity in all its forms and strives to foster an inclusive culture built on respect that affirms inter-group relations and builds cohesion.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

To learn more about Northeastern University's commitment and support of diversity and inclusion, please see www.northeastern.edu/diversity.


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