Working title:

Scientific Programmer

Official title:

SR SYSTEMS PROGRAMMER(T32BN) or SYSTEMS PROGRAMMER(T32DN) or ASSOC SYSTEMS PRGRMMR(T32FN)

Degree and area of specialization:

B.S. required, preferably in Computer Sciences or Electrical/Computer Engineering.

Minimum number of years and type of relevant work experience:

Must have experience in Unix, C/C++, Unix scripting. Some Unix systems administration experience a big plus. Experience developing and maintaining a large software package using C/C++, and/or experience with Unix systems administration, Linux, Windows, Java, and/or scientific computing applications is an advantage but not required given either solid academic or work experience. Must have excellent oral and written communication skills. Must have ability to work well in a team environment and with minimal supervision.

Principal duties:

If advancing the state of the art of distributed computing in an academic environment interests you, LMCG and the Condor Project at the University of Wisconsin offers you a unique working environment. Working with Prof. David C. Schwartz and Prof. Miron Livny and their staff, you will be working at the interface between the Laboratory for Molecular and Computational Genomics (LMCG) and the Condor Project in the Department of Computer Sciences working on new systems and software for personal genomics requiring cluster computing. LMCG is a multidisciplinary laboratory working on the development and application of single molecule techniques for powering the new age of personal genomics. The Condor Project is a research team of faculty, staff, and students who work to develop, implement, maintain, support, and deploy current and future versions of Condor, a distributed resource management system, and other distributed workload management systems encompassing both scientific and enterprise computing.

**LMCG Activities 50%
-Active engagement with all other computer science/programmers/information processing consultants,
-Development of overall system architecture
-Oversight of network design and implementation of changes and new designs, algorithm development and software development
-Communication with vendors
-Collaboration with funding agencies regarding design of genome analysis systems

**Condor Project Activities 50%
-Develop, implement, maintain, support and deploy current and future versions of "Condor" and other distributed workload management systems encompassing both production computing and research missions
-Interact with LMCG to help install and utilize Condor Project software tools
-Interact with LMCG researchers on the development of new distributed computing technologies and software tools
-Work with the rest of the Condor Team on code development, research including writing papers on results discovered, maintenance, and/or porting by performing systems-level coding/development in C/C++ using state of the art tools on a wide variety of computing platforms and operating systems
-Perform some light systems administration work on Unix and/or Windows

Additional Information:

Our project's homes are in the UW-Madison Department of Computer Sciences and The UW-Biotechnology Center (Departments of Chemistry and Genetics), which are all internationally recognized departments consistently ranked in the top ten across the USA; this position will afford you the opportunity to interact closely with both department faculty and students to translate novel ideas into production quality software. The software you will be working on is used by LMCG scientists and engineers, plus parts used by hundreds of institutions-- from universities to national laboratories, and from large hi-tech corporations to small animation teams.
Occasional travel is required.
We don't care if you are about to graduate, just graduated, or have many years of solid experience; if you are a self-motivator who loves all things related to computing we want to talk with you!