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Post Doc Res Assoc

Position Number: 7194426
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Position Type: Science - Computer Science

Post Doc Res Assoc

Job Summary

The Kahlert School of Computing at the University of Utah invites applications for one a 1-year post-doctoral researcher, renewable up to 4 years, for interdisciplinary work applying tile-based programming abstractions to an adaptive mesh refinement computation.

Salary Range: $63K - $73K - Post-doc funding depending on experience, with additional benefits.

Responsibilities
This position has several responsibilities. The successful candidate will:
1. Contribute to the development of the HashBrick library, an open source framework for adaptive mesh refinement, written in CUDA and supporting one-sided communication for scalability. The target architecture is a supercomputer with AMD MI300A GPU+CPU.
2. Perform benchmarking studies to enhance scalability and achieve high node-level efficiency, surpassing existing AMR frameworks. 3. Contribute to communication optimizations and code generation strategies for scalability on an exascale platform.

Qualifications

The Kahlert School of Computing is seeking a highly talented and committed individual with a demonstrated ability to work well with minimal supervision and with PhD students and external collaborators. Experience related to performance analysis and optimization, GPU architecture, and code generation are highly valuable. Opportunities are available for teaching training and experience.
The candidate selected will contribute to the School's world-class research and software development efforts and have the opportunity to develop their research, publication, and presentation skills under mentorship from established faculty investigators. Please contact Prof. Mary Hall (mhall@cs.utah.edu) for further information, and send all applications to both Prof. Hall and Chris Coleman (chris.coleman@utah.edu), Administrative Manager for the Kahlert School of Computing.

U.S. Citizenship is required.

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Requisition Number: PRN45165B
Full Time or Part Time? Full Time
Work Schedule Summary:
Department: 00062 - School of Computing
Location: Campus
Pay Rate Range: 63000 to 73000
Close Date: 6/29/2026
Open Until Filled:

To apply, visit https://utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/202723