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, 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: 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

📌 HPC scientific software engineer (Barcelona)
🏢 Barcelona Supercomputing Center
📍 Barcelona