[Storage-research-list] Post-Master's Research Position in Systems Programming Available at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

[Carter, Kate A.]

The Extreme Scale Systems Center in conjunction with the Computer Science Research Group in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division, at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory seeks a Post-Master's Research Associate to perform systems programming in the field of high performance file systems and storage.
The job will require collaborating with vendors, national laboratories, and universities in building a geographically distributed, fault-tolerant data replication service.  The service will leverage experimental hardware and software configurations including storage area networks, parallel file systems, high performance interconnection networks, and wide area networks in order to share large data sets between multiple high performance computing centers.

Job Responsibilities Include:
*          Research, design, and implement techniques for building a fault-tolerant, wide area runtime system.
*          Research, design, and implement techniques for efficiently and reliably moving large data sets over long fat networks (LFN).
*          Research, design, and implement software techniques for efficiently creating and interacting with file system metadata.
*          Assist in publishing articles in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings.

Minimum Qualifications Required

*      Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineer, Mathematics or related field

*      Strong programming skills

*      Programming in C and/or C++

*      Multithreading using POSIX threads


Additional desirable skills include experience or familiarity with:
*          Experience with Python
*          Network programming using TCP sockets
*          Linux kernel/driver development
*          HPC/cluster network fabrics and programming APIs
*          Parallel and distributed file systems
*          Big Data programming models and systems such as Hadoop
*          Performance analysis, measurement, and/or modeling of distributed systems

Special Requirement:
This position requires access to technology that is subject to export control requirements. Successful candidates must be qualified for such access without an export control license.  As a result, U.S. Citizenship or LPR (Lawful Permanent Residence), is required.


This position is part of the ORNL Post-Master's Research Participation Program.  Applicants should be recent Master's degree recipients or expect to complete all requirements before starting their appointments.  Applicants who have already finished their master's degree must be within five years of graduation at the time of application.  To learn more about the ORNL Post-Master's Research Participation Program visit, http://www.orau.org/ornl/post-masters/

For further consideration please email a CV to Kate Carter, ORNL Recruiter, at carterka at ornl.gov<mailto:carterka at ornl.gov>



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