NPPS Leadership Team

[Torre Wenaus <wenaus AT gmail.com>]

Anyone in PHENIX, STAR elsewhere with this skill set? (Michael Begel asks)

  Torre

The Omega Group at BNL has an opening for an engineer to program firmware and software for high-speed data acquisition electronics, including FPGA and heterogeneous devices, for Nuclear and High Energy Physics experiments.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Development of firmware and software for Nuclear and High Energy Physics Experiments.

• Design, develop, prototype, produce, and evaluate firmware for high-speed data acquisition electronics.

• Participate in system integration of multiple combined systems.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Bachelor degree or at least three (3) years equivalent experience.

• Ability to manage and execute project components independently with limited direction.

• Experience programming in VHDL or Verilog for Xilinx or Intel/Altera FPGA.

• Experience programming in high-level computer languages including C/C++ and Python.

• Knowledge of instrumentation control software development, data acquisition, and data analysis based on C/C++ and Python.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related discipline.

• At least three (3) years experience supporting scientific research programs.

• Experience programming for HPC machines, GPUs, FPGAs, or heterogeneous devices.

• Experience applying High-Level Synthesis or similar technologies to the programming of FPGA.

• Knowledge of EDA tools for circuit simulation, schematic entry, and PCB layout design.

• Experience in detector or trigger systems for particle or nuclear physics experiments.

• Hands-on problem solving skills and excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Ability to work in a large international collaboration.