Research Associate G6 - Manchester, United Kingdom - The University of Manchester

The University of Manchester

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Manchester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Background:

Successful applicants will work on the Horizon Europe AERO project.

AERO has started in January 2023 and will investigate how to bring up cloud-native software stacks on the new EU processor designs from the European Processor Initiative.

The project will run until December 2025, allowing for an ambitious research programme. You will join the Advanced Processor Technologies (APT) group within the School of Computer Science.

The group has made notable contributions to the development of low-power processors, interconnect technologies, chip multi-processor architectures, virtualization and binary translation, and massively parallel neural network architectures.

Overall Purpose of the Job:

This job regards the up bring and optimisation of Tornado VM on the EU processor designs. The tasks entail performance optimisations at the assembly level, GPU optimisations, and AI/ML workload optimisations.

Manchester has a long and distinguished track record in the research and teaching of core Computer Science, and across interfaces to adjacent disciplines.

Founded upon the pioneering work of Williams, Kilburn and Turing, the School was the first academic Department of Computer Science in the UK and one of the first to run an undergraduate programme.

The research strength of the school is reflected in consistently strong returns in UK research assessment exercises (5* in RAE 2000, 2nd in Research Power in RAE 2008, and ranked equal 1st for research environment in REF2014 and REF2021).

What you will get in return:

Fantastic market leading Pension scheme
Excellent employee health and wellbeing services including an Employee Assistance Programme
Exceptional starting annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays
Additional paid closure over the Christmas period
Local and national discounts at a range of major retailers

Our University is positive about flexible working - you can find out more here

Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.

Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

Name:
Christos Kotselidis

General enquiries:

Technical support:

**Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.