Job Description

This is an exciting opportunity to work as a Postdoctoral Researcher on a new international research project within the Institute of Computer Science (ICS), Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH). We seek a candidate with the drive and passion to deliver high-quality R&D support in the context of the HORIZON EUROPE project “ARGOS Conceptual Design Study: Designing a Next-Generation Radio Facility For Multi-Messenger Astronomy”, funded under HORIZON-INFRA-2022-DEV-01 program. The ideal candidate will be self-motivated, have great attention to detail, with strong organizational and communication skills, and will be able to work on their own initiative. The candidate will be working in an international and multidisciplinary team, with plenty of opportunities for training and development. The role will be based at the premises of FORTH in Heraklion, on the beautiful island of Crete.

The post holder will provide comprehensive R&D support for the project, with the following key responsibilities:
> Design of large-scale hierarchical and distributed data learning schemes for high-level big data analytics.
> Develop machine/deep learning frameworks for source extraction and transient identification in time series data, in conjunction with data classification and vetting.
> Implement services built on top of unified analytics engines (e.g. Apache Spark with Akka and Scala) to achieve large-scale distributed storage and distributed processing.
> Collaborate with ARGOS-CDS’ lead system engineer to support the implementation of the relevant algorithms/software running on DSP or FPGA accelerators, and to verify the robustness of the archiving and alerting subsystem.

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