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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.