Job Reference: 339_26_ES_CES_R3
Position: Senior AI for Earth Sciences Team Co-Lead (RE3-R3)
Closing Date: Saturday, 08 August, 2026
Starting Date: 01/10/2026
About BSC
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain. It houses MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, was a founding and hosting member of the former European HPC infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), and is now hosting entity for EuroHPC JU, the Joint Undertaking that leads large‑scale investments and HPC provision in Europe. The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. BSC combines HPC service provision and R&D; into both computer and computational science (life, earth and engineering sciences) under one roof, and currently has over 1000 staff from 60 countries.
Context And Mission
The mission of the Earth Sciences Department of the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, led by Prof. Francisco Doblas‐Reyes,



is to carry out research and develop methods for environmental forecasting, with a particular focus on the atmosphere‑ocean‑biosphere system. This includes the management and transfer of technology to support key societal challenges through the use of models and data applications in High Performance Computing (HPC) and AI infrastructures. It also includes the dissemination of real‑time air quality and climate information based on its research expertise in collaboration with the Spanish authorities and the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). The successful candidate will join the Computational Earth Sciences group to co‑lead the Artificial Intelligence Team, which is responsible for developing and applying machine learning and AI methods, including deep learning models, emulators, and data‑driven techniques, to advance climate and earth system research. The team contributes AI expertise to

📌 Senior AI for Earth Sciences Team Co-Lead (Barcelona)
🏢 Barcelona Supercomputing Center
📍 Barcelona