Snr Execution Framework Engineer - - Cape Town City Centre

Qualifications:

Degree/ Masters/ PHD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Astronomy or Astronomy techniques, Physics, or related fields

Experience:

Degree coupled 9 years relevant working experience, or Masters Degree coupled with 7 years relevant working experience or PHD coupled with 5 years relevant working experience in software engineering, high performance algorithms development
Experience with distributed data-intensive processing and algorithm development, ideally both from a design and application perspective
Expertise in hybrid software development in Python and C/C++ programming languages.

Knowledge:

Experience with profiling and optimization techniques, especially how to build high performance pipelines overlapping I/O and processing.
Experience with physical data modelling, both for efficient in-memory & network data exchange as well as storage (e.g. ApacheArrow, HDF5 or equivalent)
Understanding of data processing algorithms, such as Fourier transformations, gridding and (de)convolution methods. Knowledge of radio astronomy data processing pipelines and their scaling properties would be advantageous.
Common radio astronomy instrumentation: spectrometers, correlators, beamformers and pulsar timing machines and transient search machines.
Systems Engineering processes.

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