Context And Mission

The Earth Sciences Department of the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, led by Prof.

Francisco Doblas-Reyes, is one of the most active groups in air quality and atmospheric composition modelling, climate prediction and climate services in Europe.

The group contributes to various forecasting activities.

MONARCH is the operational model of the first WMO Regional Specialized Meteorological Center for Atmospheric Sand and Dust Forecast (, the Barcelona Dust Regional Center, ), and contributes to the International Cooperative for Aerosol Prediction (ICAP).

The group is actively involved in the Copernicus Programme of the European Union and MONARCH is one of the models in Europe contributing to the multi-model ensemble production of the Copernicus Regional Service (CAMS2_40bis; ).

Copernicus products are widely used by administrations and policy makers across Europe.

The group also develops and maintains the CALIOPE air quality system (), which provide high-resolution air quality forecasts over the Iberian Peninsula, Catalonia and the Barcelona metropolitan area using the in-house emission modelling system HERMESv3.

Within the Computational Earth Sciences (CES) group, we are looking for a research engineer to contribute to various forecasting activities carried out in collaboration with the Atmospheric Composition (AC) and the Earth System Services (ESS) groups of the department.

The selected candidate will be part of the Models and Workflows team and will be responsible for optimizing the architecture and resilience of our production forecasting systems.

The candidate will lead the charge in identifying vulnerabilities, designing improvements, coordinating deployments, and ensuring our production is consistently mission-critical and reliable.

Key Duties





- Coordinate the technical deployment of the operational systems upgrades, ensuring all requirements are met

- Collaborate in the planning and execution of the different operational activities

- Diagnose operational technical issues of current production chain, suggest and put in practice measures to solve them with the rest of the team, exchanging information with colleagues

- Optimize the use of IT resources and enhance the reliability of the production maintained in multiple HPC systems

- Interact with computational earth sciences scientists to improve the performance and the reliability of the systems.

This includes communication with HPC user support, both at BSC and other collaborating centers

- Contribute to document, update and improve the operational procedures

- Contribute to the design of a long-term roadmap including the transition of the current systems to AI-driven solutions

Requirements

- Education

- Master's or PhD in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline

- Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience

- Demonstrated experience in implementing operational or engineering projects with a strong technical component

- Proven experience in using high-performance computing platforms

- Experience in the design of the use of IT infrastructures, such as the use of high-performance computing, large data archive systems and software stacks, based on user requirements





- Ability to develop strong relationships and excellent steering skills

- Previous experience in the use of geophysical models, workflow systems and scientific data

- Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience

- Experience with Linux systems and scripting languages

- Experience in implementing operational policies and procedures will be valued

- Experience with operational environments or IT service monitoring will be valued

- Fluency in English and Spanish, both spoken and written

- Competences

- Ability to take initiative, prioritize and work under set deadlines and pressure

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Good set of interpersonal skills to interact and build strong relations with a diverse set of people

- Ability to work in a professional environment and within a multidisciplinary research team

- Good problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to new obstacles

Conditions

- The position will be located at BSC within the Earth Sciences Department

- We offer a full-time contract (35h/week), a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art infrastructure, versátil 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: 22 days of holidays + 6 personal days + 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

Required Skill Profession

Physical Scientists

📌 Research Engineer Operational air quality forecast technical coordinator (Barcelona)
🏢 Barcelona Supercomputing Center
📍 Barcelona