Senior Software Engineer

Description:

The role will focus on implementing a range of C++code/compiler optimisations and performance enhancements to high-performance (numerical) computing software. Experience with large scale computing via the use of numerical libraries (e.g. BLAS, LAPACK, Intel MKL/TBB) is essential. A working understanding of parallelism, concurrency and multi-threading is essential. Experience with calculus, linear algebra, geometry algorithms, and coordinate systems is highly desirable. Experience with implementing cross-platform (i.e. Linux and Windows) solutions on high performance computational infrastructure is desirable.

Key duties and responsibilities

Contribute to an existing open-source software package by:

• Profile, benchmark, and diagnose the ways in which memory, CPU usage and parallelism is managed, with a view to identifying performance impediments and opportunities for improvement
• Identify compiler switches and/or portions of the C++ code base that inhibit maximum performance from being realised
• Identify contemporary libraries, algorithms or computing techniques that might be implemented to improve performance
• Develop C++ code that addresses performance barriers and yields tangible improvements
• Monitor and report on application performance improvements
• Assist with implementing new features and resolving issues and defects
• Collaborate with a small team in continuous improvement and version control via GitHub

Essential criteria

1. An experienced software developer (5-10 years)

2. Familiarity with Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems

3. Knowledge of C++

4. Ability to work in an agile way utilising cloud computing assets

5. Ability to manage software development projects

6. Ability to profile and optimise code