Software Engineer

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Job Summary

The candidate will fulfill the role of a Software Engineer for the Deep Synoptic Array (DSA) project. The candidate will be the lead engineer for the Chronoscope (CHR) subsystem of the project. The Chronoscope subsystem will enable a world-leading, near real time search for pulsars and fast radio bursts; the discovery of pulsars, and the discovery of the spin-down of a binary pulsar system due to gravitational radiation, were both awarded Nobel prizes. The role involves the design, implementation, and testing of GPU compute kernels, and associated host code, for the CHR real-time pipeline. Particular challenges include high-thr...