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KTH in Stockholm is the largest and oldest technical university in Sweden. No less than one-third of Sweden’s technical research and engineering education capacity at university level is provided by KTH. Education and research spans from natural sciences to all branches of engineering and includes architecture, industrial management and urban planning. There are a total of just over 15,000 first and second level students and more than 1,600 doctoral students. KTH has almost 4,300 employees.

KTH Computer Science and Communication is Sweden’s leading research and education institution in Information Technology, with activities at both KTH and Stockholm University. The activities of the school focus on higher education and research within the traditional core areas of numerical analysis and computer science; from theory building and analysis of mathematical models to algorithm construction, implementation and simulation. Other core areas of growing importance are technology and methods for the support of human communication and computer mediated cooperation. The applied research includes scientific computing, computer science, computer vision, robotics, neuroinformatics and neural networks, human-computer interaction, media technology, and communication through speech and music. For more information, go to  www.kth.se/csc and follow the link to our "international website”.

Assignment

PDC - Center for High Performance Computing is the leading Swedish supercomputing center and is hosted by the KTH School of Computer Science and Communication in Stockholm. It operates state-of-the-art computational and storage resources for a variety of scientific application domains, including mechanics, computational chemistry, life sciences, climatology, and physics. Amongst these systems is the currently largest supercomputer in the Nordics, Lindgren, a 305 TF Cray XE6 system with over 36,000 cores.

PDC also participates in several research and development activities ranging from hardware-focused to software- and process-focused projects covering most aspects of large-scale scientific computing.

The successful candidate will join the team of research and system engineers at PDC responsible for designing, developing and operating a scientific computing environment that strives to be second to none. Depending on the profile of the applicant the positions can be combined with research and development projects.

Employment

Form of employment: Time-limited
Work time: Full time
With maximum extension until: Two years. KTH applies probationary employment.
Start date: The starting date is open for discussion, though ideally we would like the successful candidate to start as soon as possible
Number of positions: 2

Qualifications

• Master of Science in Computer Science (or equivalent experience).
• Experience of scripting and C-programming in Unix-like environments.
• Experience of high-performance computing (HPC).
• Experience of high-performance and large scale computer storage protocols and products.
• Experience of scientific computing programming standars (e.g. MPI and OpenMP).
• A good working knowledge of computer architecture – particularly I/O subsystems and memory hierarchies.

Application

Application deadline: March 20th, 2012
Employer's reference number: D-2011-0527

Applications via email are to be sent to:  susanneb@csc.kth.se .

Write reference number in the email subject. (CV, etc should be sent as an attachment as pdf-files.)

We also accept hard copy applications sent to:

KTH, CSC
Att. Susanne Bergman,
Lindstedtsvägen 3, 4th floor,
SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden

Application shall include the following documents:

1. Curriculum vitae
2. Transcripts from university/university college
3. Brief description of why the applicant is interested in the position.

Please observe that all material needs to be in English, apart from the official documents.

We are currently gathering information to help improve our recruitment process. We would, therefore, be very grateful if you could include an answer to the following question within your application: Where did you initially come across this job advertisement?

Contacts

For enquiries about employment conditions at CSC please contact:

Eva-Lena Åkerman, HR Manager
Phone: +46 8 790 91 06
Email:  ela@csc.kth.se

For enquiries about the project please contact:

Erwin Laure, Director PDC
Phone: +46 8 790 6514
Email: erwinl@pdc.kth.se

or

Gert Svensson, Deputy Director PDC
Phone: +46 8 790 7884
Email:  gert@pdc.kth.se

Union representatives

David Spangenberg, SACO
Phone: +46 8 790 9437
Email:  davidspa@kth.se      

 Niclas Carlsson, ST  
Phone: +46 8 790 8416 
Email:  nc@kth.se

Per-Ove Öster, LO/SEKO  
Phone: +46 70 690 8382  
Email:  perove@admin.kth.se