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Role: Backend Engineer Location: Houston, TX 77077Direct Hire - Onsite 2 days/week Work Authorization: and s Qualified candidates should send an updated, Word version of their resume to Cara Mason at Job Description:The Backend Engineer is responsible for developing the back end of a web application, handling the logic, database interactions, user authentication, configuration, etc. The Back End Software Engineer evaluates emerging technologies and provides strategic, innovative and cost-effective engineering solutions to increase the efficiency, reliability and integration of client services and operations. This person works semi-autonomously as part of a team that performs rapid prototyping of emerging technologies to solve industry-related problems. Essential Responsibilities and Duties:
- Develop, support and maintain our industry-leading seismic imaging code base, including HPC data-handling infrastructure and GPU-accelerated kernels
- Work with researchers to implement and develop new imaging algorithms and enhancements to existing methods
- Optimize new and existing production software to ensure ongoing high performance on cutting-edge hardware in both cloud and on-prem environments
- Investigate and ensure the integrity of our software as it is developed and commercialized
- Present results at internal and external conferences and client meetings
- Provide support to commercialization and operational teams
- Masters level degree in software engineering or equivalent
- At least five years of proven experience developing and supporting high-performance numerical software in C and CUDA, including parallel computing, performance profiling and CPU/GPU optimization
- Strong background in applied mathematics/physics/geophysics, especially in inverse problems, numerical inversion, numerical simulation, linear and nonlinear solvers, and optimization.
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Ability to work effectively with teams and stakeholders worldwide