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Comment author: RolfAndreassen 27 August 2013 10:36:06PM *  4 points [-]

Does anyone know of any job opportunities with constraints reasonably like this?

  • In the US (ideally California, for the climate)
  • Software development, ideally on GPUs (not graphics, but massively parallel number-crunching)
  • Reasonably low risk (no two-person startups)?

My qualifications are, extremely briefly, a physics PhD and two years' experience as architect and lead developer of the GooFit framework for maximum-likelihood fits.

Edit to clarify: I'm not asking people to google for me! I was thinking more in terms of networking, as in "do you know someone who might consider me based on your recommendation, and would you be willing to recommend me based on forum acquaintance?" Perhaps I should have added my LW karma to the list of qualifications. :)

Comment author: moridinamael 28 August 2013 12:00:45AM 3 points [-]

The NERSC suoercomputing facility, which I believe is adjunct to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, would be worth looking into. Or the Computational Research Division also at LBNL. I know other California national labs are heavily into supercomputing as well. It's a government job so the risk is pretty low.

Comment author: RolfAndreassen 28 August 2013 03:35:11PM 0 points [-]

Come to think of it, I have a network connection there; I will shake it and see if anything falls out.

Comment author: VincentYu 28 August 2013 06:39:34AM 1 point [-]

D. E. Shaw Research hires algorithm and software developers:

Candidates should have a demonstrated track record of academic, industrial, and/or open-source accomplishments. Relevant areas of expertise might include parallel computing on high performance computing systems employing multi-core, GPU, or special-purpose architectures, numerical analysis, C/C++, or Python programming, data-intensive computing, compilers, operating systems, or distributed systems, but specific knowledge of and level of experience in any of these areas is less critical than exceptional intellectual ability.

They are in NYC. I've heard that they offer outstanding salaries (considering the wealth of the founder, they are unlikely to run out of funds).

Comment author: RolfAndreassen 28 August 2013 03:34:29PM 0 points [-]

Thanks, I will give it a shot.

Comment author: gwern 28 August 2013 03:48:51PM 0 points [-]

If you do manage to get a job at Shaw, I'd be grateful if you could get me numbers on how much energy their Anton supercomputer uses. (Their publications don't seem to say, and my emails have gotten no responses.)

Comment author: RolfAndreassen 09 September 2013 08:38:17PM 1 point [-]

Sorry, they turned me down.

Comment author: gwern 09 September 2013 11:19:32PM 1 point [-]

Thanks for counterfactually asking for me.

Comment author: Nornagest 27 August 2013 11:02:07PM 1 point [-]

I've seen a few similar positions recently. Haven't been paying that much attention to them, since they're usually looking for deeper graphics experience than I have, but I expect you ought to be able to find something.

This Monster posting seems representative.

Comment author: RolfAndreassen 27 August 2013 11:43:24PM 0 points [-]

I'll edit my post to clarify, but my experience is not with graphics per se, it is with use of GPUs for general processing, ie number-crunching.

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