Job Category: Fulltime Regular
Exempt Overtime Eligible: Exempt
Benefits Eligible: Benefit Based

Caltech is a world-renowned science and engineering institute that marshals some of the world's brightest minds and most innovative tools to address fundamental scientific questions. We thrive on finding and cultivating talented people who are passionate about what they do. Join us and be a part of the diverse Caltech community.

Job Summary

The Senior Software Engineer in Scientific Computing will work at the AI+Science Lab led by Prof. Anima Anandkumar at Caltech, a mission-driven multi-disciplinary environment creating cutting-edge AI methods and applying them to a wide range of scientific domains ranging from weather/climate modeling, material design and manufacturing, protein design, and autonomous drone flights.

The Senior Software Engineer will be manage efforts to train large-scale AI foundation models for science and engineering and use their skills to create lasting benefits for humanity. They will create open-source frameworks for scientific domains and help Professor Anima Anandkumar expand AI for science.

The successful candidate will interact with the scientific community at Caltech and other universities, as well as national labs and industrial partners.

The Senior Software Engineer will manage, along with Professor Anandkumar, to create workflows for data curation using numerical software and partial differential equation (PDE) solvers such as OpenFOAM. They will focus on getting accurate solutions for scientific problems and the best hardware performance, and perform other general software engineering work. The ability to work in a dynamic, product-centric environment with excellent interpersonal skills is critical for success in this role since it involves guiding student engineers and cultivating an open-source community to contribute.

Essential Job Duties

• Create efficient and complex training data generation pipelines with industrial-scale PDE solvers such as OpenFOAM and other simulation frameworks.
• Serve as a senior mentor and educate students and collaborators on numerical methods.
• Discuss numerical methods with the team and help develop hybrid algorithms that incorporate both numerical techniques and deep learning methods.
• Publish state-of-the-art results and open-source and engage with the community.

Basic Qualifications

• Master's degree with 8 years of relevant scientific research experience.
• Industry/academic experience with software engineering.
• Very strong mathematical fundamentals and algorithm skills or experience.
• Excellent programming, debugging, performance analysis, and test design skills.
• Ability to work independently.
• Excellent communication and documentation habits.

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, AI, Applied Math, or a related field.
• Advanced technical/scientific expertise doing performance analysis and tuning.
• Track record of creating HPC software for numerical methods.
• Domain expertise in areas like computational fluid dynamics, material deformation, wave propagation, etc.
• Familiarity with containers, numeric libraries, modular software design.
• Extensive experience doing performance analysis and tuning.
• Excellent C/C++ and Python programming skills.
• GPU programming would be welcome (CUDA).
• Experience in managing large open-source projects.

Required Documents

• Resume or CV
• Statement detailing software experience
• Links to open-source repositories authored

This position is eligible for a remote work option, subject to institutional review and adherence to the Institute's policies.

• An approved remote work agreement is required.
• In accordance with Caltech's remote work guidelines, responsible for having a designated work area (home office) and for any costs related to remodeling and/or the initial setup of such designated workspace.
• Equipment needs for remote work are determined on a case-by-case basis.
• Experience with Zoom and other similar video/web conference software required.
• Report to the office as necessary by operational needs.

To be considered for this position please visit our web site and apply on line at the following link: https://hr.caltech.edu/work/job_openings

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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