Project manager, expert in software engineering (M/F)

Keywords: software development, high performance computing, symbolic and numeric algorithms.

Salary: between 3237 € and 4395 € gross monthly depending on experience, with a conditional bonus.

Period: October 1, 2025 until September 30, 2028, with a possible extension of one more year.

Contact

Address

Director of the laboratory: M. Damien Rohmer <damien.rohmer@polytechnique.edu>

Research team: MAX, Algebraic modeling and symbolic computation

Candidates should be highly skilled software developers. We encourage candidates of any level of seniority to apply, from junior candidates with a recent PhD or engineering degree to more senior academics or programmers.

Applications should comprise a CV, a letter of motivation, and two recommendation letters. They should be sent to Joris van der Hoeven before August 15, 2025. Feel free to contact him for more information.

Provide technical leadership for HPC software development for the ODELIX project (European ERC Advanced Grant). Promote the developed software to the academic world. Promote the associated scientific results through publications and applications.

The Computer Science Laboratory of the École Polytechnique (LIX) is a joint CNRS and École Polytechnique unit (UMR 7161), and has Inria as a partner. The recruit will be assigned to the “Algebraic Modeling and Symbolic Computation” (MAX) team, composed of six permanent researchers and lecturer-researchers, two research engineers, and several doctoral students. His/her work will be carried out under the supervision of Joris van der Hoeven (CNRS research director) within the framework of the European Advanced Grant ODELIX project (Solving differential equations fast, precisely, and reliably). Teleworking is possible for one or two days per week.

• Participation in the development of three open source HPC software libraries in C++:

  • The JIL library for fast computations with straight-line programs.

  • A library for sparse interpolation of polynomials.

  • A library for reliable numerical homotopy continuations.

• Creation of interfaces for C, Flint, Julia, and Mathemagix.

• Steering these development projects, especially their collaborative aspects.

• Documentation and assistance with website creation.

• Design and management of automatic tests.

• Organize and monitor application packaging and the distribution of our software.

• The developments carried out by the engineer mainly concern basic HPC software libraries for the ODELIX project. Other project members may use these libraries to develop their own software. The engineer will organize training and technical support for these high-level applications.

• Provide advice and expertise. In particular, help define the software design.

• Maintain a technology watch both for hardware (CPU, GPU, TPU) and for the intended or envisaged applications.

• Participation in scientific publications on the software aspects of the ODELIX project.

Knowledge

• Project management methodology (in-depth knowledge)

• Software engineering (in-depth knowledge)

• Modern HPC architectures (CPU, SIMD, GPU, TPU, MPI).

• Programming languages (C++, assembler, Julia)

• Quality methods, tools, standards and procedures (in-depth knowledge)

• Management techniques

• Technical English

Operational skills

• Exceptional software development skills

• Project management

• Teamwork

• Implement a quality approach

• Management of changes

• Evaluate an IT solution

• Lead a meeting or organize a conference

• Initiate and lead partnerships

• Monitor technological developments