Responsibilities

The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) , located at SLAC, will begin operation this year as the world's first x-ray free-electron laser, producing ultra-fast pulses of coherent x-rays with unprecedented brightness. A suite of x-ray instruments for exploiting the unique LCLS scientific capabilities will be produced. All these different instruments will adopt a common control and data acquisition system. Our group is responsible for developing the control and DAQ systems for the different LCLS experiments. This is a heterogeneous system comprised of VME, cPCI and ATCA single board computers running EREMS and clusters of machines running Linux. The successful candidate will design and develop tools for system deployment, will diagnose and resolve complex systems configuration, perform software and hardware installs, patches, updates, create and maintain policies that improve internal services, manage existing and new network solutions, monitor the network stability and up-time, participate in 24x7 pager rotation. This position has the possibility of converting to regular ongoing position.

Required Skills

The candidate must posses and advanced degree (MS or PhD) in computer science, science, mathematics, physics, engineering or related field or equivalent combination of education and training. Solid understanding of networking and distributed computing in required. The applicant must have extensive programming skills with scripting languages, experience with PC hardware, knowledge of the Linux kernel, ability to tweak kernel parameters for special applications, hand-on experience with installing hardware and software, experience with DNS, DHCP, HTTP, SMTP, LDAP, NFS, IPMI, kickstart, Puppet. Preference will be given to candidates who also posses the following skills: experience with kernel driver programming, high-availability architectures, file system technology, RAID technologies, relational databases, parallel computing, cyber security. Excellent communication skills and ability to work well in a research and development team are required.