> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Ben Stappers <ben.stapp...@manchester.ac.uk> > Date: Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 12:21 AM > Subject: SKA Pulsar Positions > To: Ben Stappers <ben.stapp...@manchester.ac.uk> > > > Dear All, > > Apologies if you get this more than once. If you could please pass on to any > potential applicants. > > Cheers - Ben > > > > The University of Manchester is looking to hire two engineers or scientists > for > the development of pulsar search technology for the Square Kilometre Array > Telescope. Working as part of the highly active SKA research group and with > the Jodrell Bank Pulsar Group, these 3-year positions would be ideally suited > to > digital signal processing engineers or pulsar astronomers with strong > technical > skills, especially in accelerated processing of time-series data using FPGAs, > GPUs or other many-core technologies. > > The deadline for application is 18th December 2013, with the positions ready > to > start immediately. To for more information and to apply, see the full advert: > > https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=6851 > > or direct informal enquiries to Dr Benjamin Stappers or by reply to this > email. > > Please forward this advert to anyone who may be interested. > > > Advert Text > =========== > > Applications are invited for two Non-imaging Processing Engineers with > experience in the modeling, design, verification, validation and > implementation > of hardware and software, for non-imaging radio astronomy, for example for > the > discovery and study of pulsars and fast transients. You will be expected to > play a significant role in the design of the non-imaging processing systems in > the Central Signal Processing (CSP) and Science Data Processing (SDP) > sub-systems for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). > > The SKA will be the most sensitive radio telescope ever built and will play a > major role in answering key questions in modern astrophysics and cosmology > (see > www.skatelescope.org). It will be one of a small number of cornerstone > observatories across the electromagnetic spectrum that will transform our view > of the Universe. The University of Manchester is one of three major UK > university contributors to the SKA, together with Cambridge and Oxford, and > its > Jodrell Bank Observatory is the designated location of the international > headquarters of the SKA Organization, the UK-based legal entity that directs > the project. The University also operates the Lovell Telescope and the > e-MERLIN > interferometer which is an SKA Pathfinder instrument. > > SKA activity in Manchester encompasses the science case and a number of > engineering developments including the hardware design, construction, and > verification of the signal & data transport sub-system (including > synchronization & timing), non-imaging processing for pulsars and transients, > and aperture array receiver design. The University of Manchester leads an > international Consortium on the signal & data transport and is leading the > team > that is responsible for the Non-Imaging Processing requirements for the SKA. > > We seek an experienced engineer with an ambition to participate in the design > and development of a state-of-the-art big science project. You must be able to > work with University and other academic and industry collaborators in the UK > and internationally, and with the central SKA Office. > > ---- > This list is known as "ralusers" to the list server. > Send e-mail to ralusers-ad...@astro.berkeley.edu > with the content "help" for more information.
