Research engineer on estimating environmental impacts of large-scale distributed platforms

Inria Lyon; Lyon; Presencial; EUR 45.000 - 65.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

1000scholars in Lyon is seeking a research engineer to design, develop and deploy services that estimate environmental impacts of ICT usage on large-scale platforms. This role is part of the EU-funded ODISSEE project and the SLICES-FR infrastructure, focusing on energy measurement and broader life-cycle assessment.

You will build software frameworks, a carbon calculator and multi-metric tools, reporting results to platform users and collaborating with researchers across partners to enable

Formación

• Programming and scripting skills.
• English speaking.
• Autonomy and curiosity.
• Open-mindedness.
• Teamwork.
• Ability to write English reports and papers.
• Strong organizational skills, autonomy and rigor.

Responsabilidades

• Explore methodology, metrics and allocation rules for realistic environmental results.
• Contribute to software framework to provide an environmental assessment service/agent for large scale distributed platforms.
• Develop a carbon calculator and multi-metric tools to provide and report pertinent information to platform users.
• Co-design of wattmeters and their experimental deployment.
• Create the necessary ecosystem (documentation, reproducibility artifacts) to facilitate provision and deployment across all ODISSEE project partners.
• Contribute to scientific publications and dissemination of results.

Conocimientos

Programming languages

Scripting

English speaking

Autonomy

Curiosity

Open minded

Teamwork

English reports

Organization

Rigor

Descripción del empleo

Context

The recruited research engineer will be involved in the ODISSEE (Online Data Intensive Solutions for Science in the Exabytes Era) european research project. Research sectors such as high-energy physics and astronomy offer critical insights that have the potential to revolutionise research and development, leading to breakthroughs in theoretical fields. However, these areas often require intensive research, expensive tools, and substantial long-term funding, without which their results may be limited. The EU-funded ODISSEE project will bring together the efforts of three pan-European ESFRI infrastructures in the physical and computer sciences, alongside several other key sectors, to enhance European excellence and leadership in astronomy, high-energy physics, and information technology (IT). The project will provide access to essential high-quality hardware, software, R&D programmes and state-of-the-art experimental facilities to support key scientific projects and researchers, particularly those focused on the search for dark matter. Targeting such dataflow driven applications opens the way to a new range of technologies and services, feeding SLICES-RI with a unique yet representative set of specifications to progress their operational & experimental capacities at an unprecedented scale, increasing the dissemination potential. More information; https://odissee-project.eu/

Assignment

From the Grid5000 infrastructure to now SLICES-FR, Inria (Avalon team) has a long research track history on energy measurement and management (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4614-0508-5_3) of IT resources. The goal is to bypass this energy only focus and consider environmental impacts in a broader sense (life cycle vision).

We are looking for a talented engineer who will be involved in the design, the development and the deployment of services (agents) ale to estimate the environnemental impacts of ICT usage of large scale platforms. These services will be able to estimate environmental impacts (multi-metrics) of IT resources usage and to report these information to platform users. This experimental approach will be validated and deployed ont the SLICES-FR infrastructure. The SLICES-FR (Scientific Large Scale Infrastructure for Computing/Communication Experimental Studies – France) Research Infrastructure is the French node of the SLICES-RI infrastructure at the European level. It makes it possible to experiment with any new software and/or hardware approach across the entire IoT/networks/edge/cloud continuum allowing a holistic vision across the entire data chain, from its capture to its processing, including its transport and storage. SLICES-FR offers configuration, programming and measurement services on a wide range of heterogeneous equipment via single accesses. These equipment and services cover the areas of network protocols, radio technologies, the Internet of Things, services and data collection, parallel and distributed computing, edge and cloud computing for reproducible and responsible research. More information on : https://slices-fr.eu/en/

Main activities

• Explore methodology, metrics and allocation rules for realistic environmental results;
• Contribute to the creation of software framework to provide an environmental assessment service/agent for large scale distributed platforms;
• Develop a carbon calculator and multi-metric tools to provide and report pertinent information to platform users;
• Participate in the co-design of new generations of wattmeters and their experimental deployment;
• Create the necessary ecosystem (documentation, reproducibility artifacts) to facilitate the provision and deployment of this service across all ODISSEE project partners
• Contribute to scientific publications and dissemination of results;

Skills

Compétences

Skills in programming languages and scripting
English speaking
Autonomy and curiosity
Open minded
Team working
Capacity to write English reports and papers
Sense of organization, autonomy, rigor