Job Offer

The Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich, Department of Mathematics, is advertising a

in the field of financial and insurance mathematics with special IT duties. The position is commencing at the earliest convenience for a term of 2 years with possible extension.

Job Description

The successful candidate is expected to actively contribute to the research activities in the field of financial and insurance mathematics at the department of mathematics.

I addition to your research activities, you will be involved in the construction, design and operation of a computer laboratory for computational finance. The major purpose of the computer laboratory is to strengthen the applied mathematical finance component in our study programs and to enable teaching of computational finance in close connection to industry best practice. The laboratory consists of 30 desktop computers, partly with GPGPUs. It is embedded in a Linux-infrastructure with file and compute servers. Depending on teaching requirements the use of Windows may be considered.

• Contact person for students using the computer laboratory.
• Administration of the more specialized software configuration.
• Supporting the construction and development of the infrastructure.
• Supporting the construction and development of services (e.g., databases).

Requirements

We welcome applications from motivated and highly-qualified candidates from all countries.

• hold a M.Sc. or equivalent degree in mathematics, computer sciences, physics or statistics with results significantly above average.
• show strong interest in mathematical finance (precognition in mathematical finance is preferable but not prerequisite)

• Experience in the management of computer pools, ideally in heterogenic environments (e.g. debian Linux and Windows).
• Experience in configuration management for software development (IDEs (Java, C++, CUDA), Subversion, Mercurial, Hudson).
• Experience in software development with object oriented languages.
• Experience in design and operation of web services (HTML5, CSS, Application Server)

How to apply

The University of Munich is an equal opportunity employer and aims to increase the number of female faculty members. The applications of female candidates are explicitly encouraged.

Disabled candidates with essentially equal qualifications will be given preference.

Your application should include a letter of motivation, curriculum vitae, a list of publications, and documentation of academic degrees and certificates. Please send your application electronically in pdf format to the following addresses (please include both e-mail addresses)

Alternatively, you can send your application by mail quoting reference number E13 FinLab to

Application deadline is October 1, 2012. As the return of documentation will not be possible it is requested that important documents be submitted as copies only.

For any further administrative questions you can contact Christina Broza, Phone: 0049 (0)89 21804493.

Any further technical questions can be addressed to the e-mails mentioned above (please include both e-mail addresses).