IRB Barcelona is looking for a Scientific Computing Officer to join its Scientific Computing team, with a focus on computing systems, scientific software and application performance.

The successful candidate will contribute to the operation and evolution of the institute’s High-Performance Computing infrastructure. The role will involve supporting scientific applications, understanding how software interacts with hardware and helping researchers run workloads efficiently on CPUs, GPUs and other computing resources.

We are looking for someone with a basic background in programming and Linux who is motivated to develop deeper expertise in HPC systems and performance engineering. Previous professional experience in this field is an advantage, but it is not essential.

KEY RESPONSABILITIES
- Support the operation of Linux-based scientific computing and HPC environments.
- Install, configure, test and maintain scientific applications and software environments.
- Compile scientific software and adapt build options to the available hardware.
- Help diagnose performance,



compatibility and resource-utilisation issues.
- Support workloads running on CPUs, GPUs and heterogeneous computing systems.
- Assist researchers in selecting suitable compute resources and job configurations.
- Analyse application behaviour, memory use, parallelisation and data-access patterns.
- Contribute to the maintenance of software stacks, modules, containers and development environments.
- Create technical documentation, examples and operational procedures.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, storage, networking and research teams.
- Evaluate new technologies that could improve performance, usability or reproducibility.

YOU HAVE

We do not expect candidates to already have extensive HPC experience. The essential requirements are:
- Basic programming or scripting skills in at least one language, such as Python, Bash, C, C++, Fortran or a similar language.
- Basic knowledge of Linux and command-lin

📌 Scientific Computing Officer — HPC Systems (Barcelona)
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