Senior Research Engineer at Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Do you want to work on engineering solutions for exciting and challenging top-notch European projects related to process-based models to study Climate Change?

At the High-Performance Computing team of the Earth Sciences Department at BSC, we are looking for an engineer or a researcher to work in the development and improvement of climate applications. The tasks include:

- Develop and/or integrate new scientific features into the source code of the models used in the department, such as IFS
- Validate the scientific correctness of the new developments
- Measure the computational impact of the new developments to guarantee an efficient scalability
- Close interaction with the Climate Variability and Change (CVC) and Atmospheric Composition (AC) groups, and external collaborators

Requirements

- Possess a bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, physical engineering, mathematics, physics, or a closely related field. A PhD in a related field is not essential but will be appreciated
- Experience in scientific research, particularly in areas related to climate or ocean modelling
- Experience in running scientific codes on large HPC systems
- Excellent computing skills in high-level computer languages (especially Fortran or C/C++)




- Experience with Unix/Linux environments and scripting languages (Bash, Python, etc)
- Programming skills to manage big and collaborative projects and experience with git
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Learning capacity and motivation to maintain a learning progression
- Good written and verbal skills and capacity to support Earth and Computational scientists
- Fluency in English

Conditions

- 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, 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: 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

Seniority level

Entry level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Research Services

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