The work place

KTH in Stockholm is the largest and oldest technical university in Sweden. No less than one-third of Sweden’s technical research and engineering education capacity at university level is provided by KTH. Education and research spans from natural sciences to all branches of engineering and includes architecture, industrial management and urban planning. There are a total of just over 15,000 first and second level students and more than 1,600 doctoral students. KTH has almost 4,300 employees.

KTH Computer Science and Communication is Sweden’s leading research and education institution in Information Technology, with activities at both KTH and Stockholm University. The activities of the school focus on higher education and research within the traditional core areas of numerical analysis and computer science; from theory building and analysis of mathematical models to algorithm construction, implementation and simulation. Other core areas of growing importance are technology and methods for the support of human communication and computer mediated cooperation. The applied research includes scientific computing, computer science, computer vision, robotics, neuroinformatics and neural networks, human-computer interaction, media technology, and communication through speech and music. For more information, go to www.kth.se/csc and follow the link to our “international website”.

Assignment

PDC-HPC  is the leading Swedish supercomputing center hosted by CSC. It operates state-of-the-art computational and storage resources for a variety of scientific application domains, including mechanics, computational chemistry, life sciences, climatology, and physics. Amongst these systems is the currently largest supercomputer in the Nordics, Lindgren, a 305 TF Cray XE6 system with over 36,000 cores.

The successful candidate will join the PDC support team working closely with with academic researchers in the field of bioinformatics and focusing particularly on the needs of SciLifeLab ( www.scilifelab.se /). The work will include the installation and maintenance of bioinformatics applications at PDC and SNIC resources, the development of user-friendly interfaces to those applications and the exploration of new computing and storage strategies for bioinformatics, like for instance cloud systems. The successful candidate is expected to spend part of his/her working time at SciLifeLab.  

Candidates need to have an academic education (preferably PhD) in computer science, bioinformatics, or related fields and proven experiences in maintaining and improving bioinformatics applications on shared Linux-based environments. Good knowledge of Linux and security mechanisms are required.

Employment

Form of employment: Time-limited
Work time: Full time
Start date: According to agreement.
Number of positions: 1
KTH applies probationary employment.

Qualifications

Candidates need to have an academic education (preferably PhD) in computer science, bioinformatics, or related fields and proven experiences in maintaining and improving bioinformatics applications on shared Linux-based environments. Good knowledge of Linux and security mechanisms are required. Fluent English is also a required.

Application

Application deadline: March 29, 2012 
Employer's reference number: D-2012-0056

Application shall include the following documents:

1. Cover letter

2. Curriculum vitae

3. Transcripts from university/university college

4. References

Please observe that all material needs to be in English.

Applications via email to:  susanneb@csc.kth.se   Write reference number in the email subject. (CV, etc should be sent as attachments, as pdf-files.)

Alternatively applications by ordinary post should be sent to:

KTH, CSC
Att: Susanne Bergman
Lindstedtsvägen 3, floor 4
SE-100 44 Stockholm
Sweden

We are currently gathering information to help improve our recruitment process. We would, therefore, be very grateful if you could include an answer to the following question within your application: Where did you initially come across this job advertisement?

Contact(s)

Queries concerning employment at KTH can be directed to:

Eva-Lena Åkerman, HR Manager
Phone: +46 8 790 91 06
Email:  ela@csc.kth.se

Queries concerning PDC-HPC can be directed to:

Erwin Laure, Director PDC-HPC
Phone: +46 8-790 6914
Email:  erwinl@pdc.kth.se

Gert Svensson, Dep. Director PDC-HPC
Tel: +46 8-790 7884
Email:  gert@pdc.kth.se

Union representative

David Spangenberg, SACO
Phone: +46 8 790 9437
Email:  davidspa@kth.se

 Niclas Carlsson, ST  
Phone: +46 8 790 8416 
Email:  nc@kth.se

 Per-Ove Öster, LO/SEKO 
 Phone: +46 70 690 8382  
Email:  perove@admin.kth.se