Experiments:CERN-LHC-ATLAS
Region: North America
Job description:
Position Description
The High Energy Physics Division at Argonne National Laboratory invites applications for a Software Engineer, at the tenured RD3 level, to work on the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. The successful candidate is expected to contribute in a leadership role to the design, development, and deployment of the use of DOE supercomputers (HPCs) for simulation and analyses in support of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Argonne offers world-class opportunities in the area of High Performance Computing. The laboratory hosts the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) and has a strong Mathematics and Computer Science Division (MCS). The ALCF will house A21, a new supercomputer that will be the first exascale system in the U.S. for open science, offering new and exciting opportunities for the HEP community to carry out science at the cutting edge of high-performance computing and addressing the computational and big data challenges. This position is in part in support of a larger effort to build new pathways for particle physics to the deep computing expertise and infrastructure at Argonne National Laboratory. Additional responsibilities of the candidate are to provide day-to-day operational maintenance and effort to monitor and improve the performance of ATLAS jobs, and provide support and development of the PanDa Harvester Edge Service with the ATLAS Event Processing Service model inside docker-style containers. The successful applicant is expected to provide documentation to support these activities, expert support to physicists who use HPCs and their supporting software, and to develop new ideas for computing within ATLAS and the HEP community more broadly. Some travel, both foreign and domestic, will be required.
The Argonne High Energy Physics group has significant responsibilities in operation of the TileCal hadronic calorimeter, Trigger/DAQ (TDAQ) and software and computing for the ATLAS experiment, and in ATLAS detector upgrades for the HL-LHC including the DAQ system, and the Inner Tracker (ITk). The group has significant responsibilities for ATLAS core software including metadata, I/O and persistence mechanisms, in the use of DOE supercomputers for ATLAS simulation and analysis, in collaboration with computer scientists and software engineers at Argonne’s Leadership Computing Facility, and in applying machine learning techniques to physics object identification. Current physics research activities within the group include Higgs studies, Standard Model measurements, and searches for new phenomena.Position Requirements
Successful candidates will have:
- Doctorate in High Energy Physics, Computational Science or an equivalent related field.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work well in a team environment with physicists and computing professionals from within the Laboratory as well as remote institutions.
- Fluency in the C++ programming language, familiarity with the Python scripting language, and versatility with respect to programming languages and operating systems.
- Good analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to write results-oriented applications for use over long time periods in widely diverse collaborations.
- Strong oral and written communications skills.
- Good: Familiarity with and interest in emergent and advanced technologies and the ability to recognize where they may benefit current project.
- Familiarity with LHC analysis frameworks and distributed systems is highly desirable
- Familiarity using MPI, multi-threading concepts, containerized workflows is desirable
Applicants should send their curriculum vitae and a statement of research interests through the Argonne National Laboratory application system http://www.anl.gov/careers with Requisition Number 403637 and arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent to hep_letters@anl.gov. The position is open until filled.
For further information, contact Dr. James Proudfoot at proudfoot@anl.gov.
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