Research Assistant/Associate in CFD for Exascale Computing

We are a world class research-intensive university. We deliver teaching and learning of the highest quality. We play a leading role in economic, social and cultural development of the North East of England. Attracting and retaining high-calibre people is fundamental to our continued success.

Salary
Research Assistant: £32,296 to £33,882 per annum.
Research Associate: £34,866 to £45,163 per annum.

The Role
Applications are invited for a Research Assistant/Associate to support the re-engineering efforts of the UKCTRF’s SENGA+ numerical simulation suite to utilise the OPS Domain Specific Language. You will have the opportunity to work with many project partners and other universities on the EPSRC ExCALIBUR project. The aim is on advancing the capabilities of these codes both in terms of performance portability for massively parallel heterogeneous systems and applying them to achieve several key grand challenge problems in wind energy generation, green aviation, air quality leading to reach UK’s net-zero combustion goals.

This opportunity places you at the heart of the cutting-edge software development in the UK and pioneering simulations of turbulent reacting flows. You will be embedded in an inclusive, multi-national team based at Newcastle University who are involved in simulation and modelling of various aspects of turbulent reacting and multiphase flows. Colleagues in our research group have cutting-edge expertise in Computational Fluid Dynamics and multiphase turbulent flows.

We are looking for candidates who have a strong background in developing parallel applications for High Performance Computing systems. You will use this experience to contribute to the design, analysis, implementation, optimization and deployment of parallel algorithms and software for multi-core and many-core architectures on large-scale cluster systems. To be highly successful in this role you will be an enthusiastic and task/goal-oriented individual who can communicate effectively.

To apply, please upload a CV and letter of application which outlines how you can evidence the requirements set out in ‘The Person’ section of the job description found here.

We follow the Researcher Development Concordat. We enable all staff to fulfil their research potential regardless of career stage.

This is a full-time, fixed-term position until 31 October 2025.

Please contact Professor Nilanjan Chakraborty at nilanjan.chakraborty@ncl.ac.uk for informal enquiries.

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