Offre d'emploi

Looking for an IT specialist to support the development of the computer code SAFIR



The Fire Safety Engineering group of Liege University has decided to hire an IT specialist to support the development of the computer code SAFIR ® .

SAFIR® ( SAFIR  ) is a non-linear finite element software developed at Liege University and Johns Hopkins University for the simulation of structures subjected to fire. The software has been developed in two departments of civil engineering by academics and researchers experts in structural fire engineering and finite element modelling. This software is occupying a niche which, years after years, allowed it to make a name for itself, being used in more than 150 universities and research centres and nearly 120 design offices around the world. It is now being used for the realisation of more and more numerous and larger and larger buildings.

 

The developers are seeking for an individual with background in computational sciences whose expertise and enthusiasm would help them further developing the software and its environment, notably in terms of user-friendliness and efficiency for its many users.

 

Context and Skills

SAFIR is written in FORTRAN and compiled in Visual Studio. In order to facilitate distribution and utilisation in civil engineering design offices, the executable is produced to run on standalone

computers under Windows O.S.

Expected tasks entail:

- Development of a new GUI environment (pre-processor) for SAFIR.

- Development of automatized procedures for code quality control and benchmarking.

- Code acceleration and parallelization. Knowledge in multithreading, OPENMP and Numerical

Conditional Reproducibility is welcome.

- Execution on distributed computers, compilation for LINUX platform.

- Support to developer team and users.

 

The person recruited should display a high level of independence and responsibility while in the same time an ability to work with a team spirit. He/she will indeed be embedded in the team of SAFIR developers, Ph. D. researchers and users with whom communication in both directions is essential. But, at the same time, she/he should bring the topic-specific IT knowledge that would make her/him the go-to person for IT-specific questions in the team. Of course, the University is the perfect environment for this person to find contacts and information among colleagues of other groups or departments in the Faculty. The possibility would be offered to continue his/her education by following one or two courses in the department of IT sciences. As the work produced by this person would be on applications of existing scientific algorithms or Open Source code such as GMSH, there will be no right of Intellectual Property of SAFIR granted to this IT specialist.

Recruitment would be for a first period of one year. Informing the developers of SAFIR about the new developments and providing them with enough information to allow maintenance of these developments in the future is thus an essential feature of this project. Continuation of the position after the initial period will be envisaged from the results obtained during this first year, but cannot be promised at this stage.

Contact: Prof. Jean-Marc Franssen, jm.franssen@uliege.be, +32 4 366.92.65.

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