Research Engineer - Operational air quality forecast (RE1-RE2) Closing Date: Sunday, 06 September, 2026 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.

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 modeling, climate prediction and climate services in Europe. the Barcelona Dust Regional Center, and contributes to the International Cooperative for Aerosol Prediction (ICAP) and the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS, regional air quality forecasts. The group also develops and maintains the CALIOPE (“CALIdad del aire Operacional Para España”) and CALIOPE-urban air quality systems ( which provide high-resolution air quality forecasts over the Iberian Peninsula, Catalonia and Barcelona using the in-house emission model HERMES. Within the Computational Earth Sciences (CES) group, the selected candidate will be part of the Models and Workflows team to contribute to various forecasting activities carried out in collaboration with the Atmospheric Composition (AC) and the Earth System Services (ESS) groups and will be responsible for maintaining and improving the current operational air quality forecasting systems.





We are particularly interested for this role in the strengths and lived experiences of women and underrepresented groups to help us avoid perpetuating biases and oversights in science and IT research. Implementation, execution, and monitoring of atmospheric numerical models (MONARCH, WRF-ARW, CMAQ) in a High-Performance Computing environment. Interact with computational earth sciences scientists to improve the performance and reliability of the system.

Interact with atmospheric composition scientists to understand processes and model configuration. Maintenance of the current operational air quality forecasting systems and development of new features as a result of user interaction. Having a Bachelor in Meteorology, Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related discipline Having a Master’s degree will be valued.

Experience with UNIX/LINUX environments Experience in Python programming and/or scripting languages (bash, …) Experience in version control in a collaborative environment, including SVN or Git Familiarity with scientific workflows on large High Performance Computing (HPC) systems, including parallel programming techniques and workflow-managers Jenkins) Previous experience in scientific software and tools (R, Python Numpy and Scipy, …) Familiarity with coding and documentation best practices and standards will be valued 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, adaptable 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 ASAP We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or any other basis protected by applicable state or local law. #

📌 Research Engineer - Operational Air Quality Forecast (Cataluña)
🏢 Barcelona Supercomputing Center
📍 Cataluña