24 Jan 2024
Job Information
- Organisation/Company
BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER- Research Field
Physics- Researcher Profile
First Stage Researcher (R1)
Recognised Researcher (R2)- Country
Spain- Application Deadline
1 Mar 2024 - 23:59 (Europe/Madrid)- Type of Contract
Permanent- Job Status
Full-time- Hours Per Week
37,5- Offer Starting Date
1 Mar 2024- Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?
Not funded by an EU programme- Reference Number
7_24_ES_EDD_RE2- Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?
No
Offer Description
Context And Mission
Within the Earth Sciences department, the Data and Diagnostics Team is part of the core development team of the ESMVal Tool (https://esmvaltool.org/ ), community diagnostic and performance metrics tool for routine evaluation of Earth system models in CMIP. This suite of Python tools aims at efficiently loading and analyzing very big Earth simulation data, comparing them with observations.
The successful applicant will join the BSC Computational Earth Sciences group, within the Earth Sciences Department, to help at the practical implementation of new diagnostics in ESMVal, contribute to their optimisation and provide support to the users of the department for the use of the tool.
Moreover, the applicant will contribute to the ongoing strategy for the development of the Earth Sciences Department tools, thereby increasing the applicability and international visibility—and hence the impact—of the research coming out of present and future projects. This work will be carried out interacting closely with the climate prediction group and external collaborators/software vendors.
Key Duties
- Contribute to the optimization and development of the ESMVal python tool
- Ensure internal user support for the tool
Requirements
- Research Field
- Physics
- Education Level
- Master Degree or equivalent
Skills/Qualifications
- Education
- Having a Bachelor in Computer Science, Telecommunications, Physics or related discipline
- Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Excellent computing skills in Python and experience with UNIX/LINUX environments and scripting languages (bash,etc)
- Experience in managing large datasets and Python parallelization
- Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Knowledge of climate data formats (NetCDF, grib) will be valued
- Previous experience in scientific software and tools (CDO, CDFTools, ESMValTools, Numpy and Scipy, Xarray,... etc) will be valued
- Good programming skills to manage big and collaborative projects and experience with git and/or SVN
- Competences
- Capacity to interact and build strong relations with both climate and computer scientists.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to take initiatives, prioritize the tasks and work under set deadlines.
- Ability to work both independently and within a team.
- Ability to learn and adapt to multiple programming languages easily.
- Fluency in English, both speaking and writing
- 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: as soon as possible
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/724eseddre2
Contact
- City
Barcelona- Website
http://www.bsc.es/- Street
c/ Jordi Girona nº31- Postal Code
08034
STATUS: EXPIRED
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