Research Software Engineer — Astro-HPC & Open-Source

Women in HPC; Town of Cambridge; On-site; AUD 34,000 - 44,000; Part time

Job summary

The University of Cambridge invites applications for a part-time Research Software Engineer (0.5 FTE) to join the Institute of Astronomy and Kavli Institute for Cosmology. You will develop and maintain GPU-accelerated HPC software, implement testing and documentation, and coordinate shared code with partner institutions.

Work involves engaging in modern software engineering practices, contributing to open-source workflows and potential publications, with growth opportunities as the Cambridge

Qualifications

• Experience developing high-performance scientific software.
• Strong programming in C++ and Python for HPC workloads.
• Familiarity with GPU acceleration and GPU-aware tools.
• Ability to document, test and maintain codebases for collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Establish and manage reliable version-control infrastructure for group codes with migration of legacy repos.
• Coordinate external development branches and integrate selected changes into group codes.
• Tune and deploy codes on HPC clusters (AMD/NVIDIA GPUs) with profiling, benchmarking and scaling.
• Design, implement and document new physics capabilities within group codes with performance in mind.
• Prototype ML and advanced statistics methods to speed modeling and inference workflows.
• Support development of semi-analytic modelling codes and integrate into open-source frameworks.
• Implement automated testing, CI and documentation across codebases; provide training.
• Advise group leader on software strategy and compute-resource planning for grants.
• Contribute to publications and pursue new computational ideas for group projects.

Skills

C++

Python

GPU CUDA

HPC

Software engineering

Version control

CI/CD

Documentation

Bayesian methods

Machine learning

Tools

CUDA

HIP

OpenCL

Git

CI/CD tooling

Job description

The University of Cambridge invites applications for a part-time Research Software Engineer (0.5 FTE) to join the Institute of Astronomy and Kavli Institute for Cosmology. You will develop and maintain GPU-accelerated HPC software, implement testing and documentation, and coordinate shared code with partner institutions.

Work involves engaging in modern software engineering practices, contributing to open-source workflows and potential publications, with growth opportunities as the Cambridge