My colleague Josef Weinbub and I are looking for a motivated PhD student to join our efforts as a research assistant at the Institute for Microelectronics, TU Wien. If you

• have recently completed or expect to soon complete your Master's degree in mathematics, computer science, or a related discipline
• have previous exposure to OpenCL or CUDA
• enjoy working on open source software

then apply via email to manuela.reinharter@tuwien.ac.at no later than Wednesday, November 9, 2016. Use the code "307.8.2" to reference this position.

The position is formally announced from February 1, 2017 to January 31, 2018. Funding for extending the position up to January 31, 2020, is available. Remuneration is currently 2022.40 Euros before taxes, 14 times a year. [Link to the official announcement] (in German; scroll to the very bottom)

This blog post is for calendar week 20 of my weekly blogging series for 2016.