Have you ever thought that you’d like to write code to model something awesome? Like rockets? Aircraft? Explosions? Advanced battery performance? That’s what we do at Illinois Rocstar! Producing tools, interfaces, and systems to run on the most advanced high performance computing platforms in the world, we are all about making High Performance Computational Science and Engineering better and easier to use. To learn more about us and three of our current open-source projects, see:
http://www.illinoisrocstar.com
The Job
In this permanent, full-time position, you’ll be working alongside a great team of computationally-savvy engineers and scientists using our custom agile development process and environment. You’ll be involved in multiple projects; you won’t be bored as there’s always something new to work on. Everyone on the team works the entire process: planning, programming, testing, documenting, and deploying. You’ll be part of the big picture. This position focuses the most attention on the programming aspect of the process.
Requirements
You must be a reasonably accomplished C++ programmer with some parallel programming experience (preferably MPI, but OpenMP or other thread-based parallelism is OK), a B.S. degree and 5+ years of directly applicable programming experience writing code on commercial-level projects. Knowledge and ability to write complex code using C++ classes and templates is required.
You must be comfortable working in a Linux development environment, compiling at the command line.
You must be a U.S. citizen or current permanent resident.
You must have good communication/writing/presentation skills.
You must be willing to live in/relocate to the Champaign, IL area.
Nice-to-Haves, But Not Required (in approximate order of importance)
Experience with enterprise-level, web-oriented database systems.
Science background in such fields as engineering, physics, math, chemistry, etc.., which will help with understanding the codes and working with our subject-matter-experts.
Knowledge of Fortran, build system and configuration management (CMake, SVN, GitHub etc.).
M.S. degree with 2+ years of directly applicable programming experience.
Other Stuff
We offer a salary + benefits package competitive in the Champaign, IL area, including 401K with company matching, vacation, holidays, subsidized health insurance, and performance bonuses. Illinois Rocstar is located in the University of Illinois Research Park (http://www.researchpark.illinois.edu/), home to a wide variety of high-tech startups and multiple Fortune 500 research organizations. The tech environment is amazing; Champaign is one of the best small cities that you’ll ever find to live in, and it’s only a short drive to Chicago, Indianapolis, and St. Louis. Come start your career as a Rocstar!
To Apply
To apply, please send your cover letter, resume, and 2 slides describing your work on a significant programming project to careers@illinoisrocstar.com.