HPC Engineer for Earth Sciences applications (RE1)

31 Mar 2024
Job Information

Organisation/Company

BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER

Research Field

Computer science

Researcher Profile

First Stage Researcher (R1)

Country

Spain

Application Deadline

30 Apr 2024 - 23:59 (Europe/Madrid)

Type of Contract

Permanent

Job Status

Full-time

Hours Per Week

37,5

Offer Starting Date

1 May 2024

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

Not funded by an EU programme

Reference Number

113_24_ES_HPCES_RE1

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

Offer Description
Context And Mission

 

Within the Barcelona Supercomputing Center the Earth Sciences Department, led by Prof Francisco Doblas-Reyes, aims to deliver novel, advanced, and well-evaluated high-resolution global climate models capable of simulating and predicting climate estimations with unprecedented reliability. The successful candidate will be part of the Performance Team a sub-group in the section of Computational Earth Sciences.

This team, composed of 14 members but steadily growing, performs R&D tasks in the field of Earth system modelling (ESM) performance: its goal is to identify model bottlenecks and research how to remove them. The team has at its disposal cutting-edge performance tools, able to evaluate and represent different performance metrics. Having identified those areas in the code, the experts in the team proceed to modify them without impacting the final results. Possible solutions can go from using more efficient numerical algorithms to modifying the way the model exploits the HPC infrastructure.

 

Key Duties

 

• The successful candidate will work on profiling and implementing computational optimizations for Earth Sciences applications running at a very high-resolution configuration using top European HPC platforms.
• The candidate will also be involved in developing the department's "common" tools: these include several applications whose interest is shared among different sub-groups in the Earth Sciences department and whose number of users can range from small groups to several institutions.
• This position involves close interaction with the Climate Variability and Change (CVC) group and external collaborators/software vendors.

Requirements

Research Field

Computer science

Education Level

Bachelor Degree or equivalent

Research Field

Physics

Education Level

Bachelor Degree or equivalent

Skills/Qualifications
Requirements

 

• Education
  • Having a Bachelor in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or related discipline
  • Having a Master’s degree will be valued
• Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
  • Excellent computing skills in high-level computer languages (especially Fortran or C/C++) and experience with Unix/Linux environments and scripting languages (Bash, Python, etc)
  • Programming skills to manage big and collaborative projects and experience with git and/or SVN
  • Knowledge of HPC performance and profiling tools as Intel Vtune
  • Experience or knowledge in running and optimizing scientific codes on large HPC systems.
  • Experience or knowledge in HPC architecture and parallel programming (multi-threaded applications) will be valued
  • Experience or knowledge in the usage and support of Unix- or Linux-based HPC systems
• Competences
  • Excellent problem-solving skills
  • Proactive attitude
  • Learning capacity and motivation to maintain a learning progression
  • Good written and verbal skills and capacity to support Earth and Computational scientists
  • Fluency in English

Languages

ENGLISH

Level

Good

Additional Information
Benefits

 

• The position will be located at BSC within the Earth Sciences Department
• We offer a full-time contract (37.5h/week), a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art infrastructure, flexible working hours, extensive training plan, restaurant tickets, private health insurance, support to the relocation procedures
• Duration: Open-ended contract due to technical and scientific activities linked to the project and budget duration
• Holidays: 23 paid vacation days plus 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement
• Salary: we offer a competitive salary commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the candidate and according to the cost of living in Barcelona
• Starting date: ASAP

Work Location(s)

Number of offers available

1

Company/Institute

Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Country

Spain

State/Province

Barcelona

Geofield

Where to apply

Website

https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/11324eshpcesre1

Contact

City

Barcelona

Website

http://www.bsc.es/

Street

c/ Jordi Girona nº31

Postal Code

08034

STATUS: EXPIRED