PhD CFD Co-op - GPU Turbulent Combustion & HPC

Analytical Mechanics Associates; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 40,000 - 45,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Vision insurance

Long term disability

Tuition reimbursement

401(k)

Job summary

Analytical Mechanics Associates (AMA) seeks a highly motivated Graduate Co-op to help NASA Ames Research Center with GPU-accelerated combustion modeling in the LAVA CFD solver, focusing on GPU-resident methods and a robust numerical scheme. The role requires a Ph.D.

track in a relevant field with strong background in combustion, HPC, and GPU programming. The co-op is part-time and based in Mountain View, CA, offering collaboration with the ASSESS contract and exposure to Cart3D/LAVA solvers,

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Expertise in combustion physics and modeling.
• Programming proficiency in C/C++ and CUDA.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with CFD experts to integrate GPU enhancements into solvers such as Cart3D and LAVA.
• Conduct hardware-level GPU optimizations, including occupancy tuning, register usage, memory hierarchy improvements, and asynchronous stream utilization.
• Improve I/O performance, including potential compression and in-situ analysis.
• Design and implement a GPU-accelerated library tailored to linear solvers for implicit CFD analysis.
• Profile and analyze performance using tools such as Nsight Systems and Nsight Compute to ensure efficient use of GPU resources.
• Document work and present progress to the Computational Aerosciences Branch team.

Skills

Fluid dynamics

Combustion modeling

C/C++ programming

CUDA / GPU programming

MPI / OpenMP

Git / GitLab

Linux / HPC environments

Communication

Education

Ph.D. student in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related

Tools

CUDA

MPI

OpenMP

Nsight Systems/Compute

Job description

Analytical Mechanics Associates (AMA) seeks a highly motivated Graduate Co-op to help NASA Ames Research Center with GPU-accelerated combustion modeling in the LAVA CFD solver, focusing on GPU-resident methods and a robust numerical scheme. The role requires a Ph.D.

track in a relevant field with strong background in combustion, HPC, and GPU programming. The co-op is part-time and based in Mountain View, CA, offering collaboration with the ASSESS contract and exposure to Cart3D/LAVA solvers,