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You will work at an establishment that probably has the highest concentration of mathematicians in the country. Your work will be integral to our core business of intelligence analysis and communications security. You will work on the analysis of complex signals and data, code-breaking techniques and code construction. The tasks you will be involved with will be varied and challenging, and largely of a practical nature. The foundation for much of the work will be mathematics (algebra, especially finite field theory; combinatorics; number theory; and probability and statistics), but software and systems knowledge is of ever-growing importance. Many of the posts involve the development, implementation and support of very efficient algorithms on high performance computers and some experience of programming is desirable in all cases and essential for some of the posts, particularly as communications are becoming more and more software based. Some areas where you may become involved include: investigation of cryptographic algorithms and their implementation in secure systems; designing and assessing "robust" software; developing statistical pattern recognition techniques for data mining; demodulating and recovering digital signals which have been received over a noisy channel; examining the use of a cryptographic chip for a particular government application; or costing the efficient implementation of a range of sample subroutines on a massively parallel computer. You will have the opportunity to take on management responsibility - or if you prefer the chance to become a technical expert. We'll throw you in at the deep end on day one and give you all the refresher training you need to keep you up to speed. |
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