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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: 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.