Position Junior Research Engineer (RE1) 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.

Look At The BSC Experience BSC-CNS YouTube Channel 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. Deploying and maintaining a hardware/software infrastructure of HPC prototypes based on emerging technologies (e.g., Arm- and RISC-V-based commercial platforms, FPGA-based systems) operating as compute nodes within an HPC data center. Performance evaluation of HPC clusters powered by emerging technologies, using benchmarks, mini-applications, and complex scientific applications.

Providing feedback to RTL designers and system software developers, including compiler teams, to facilitate the adoption of novel architectures. Supporting scientific communities, industrial partners, and research projects in testing novel architectures and comparing results with state‐of‐the‐art HPC systems. The team is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to lead activities on benchmarking and data-driven deployment of HPC infrastructure based on emerging technologies,



and to share coordination responsibilities within the team.

Integrate with the BSC tools and system software infrastructure; Understand, develop and maintain simple systems for power and energy monitoring of compute nodes.

Requirements Education On going higher degree studies in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, Physics or Mathematics Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience Demonstrated experience in vectorization studies and benchmarking of complex HPC applications at different technology readiness levels.

Conditions The position will be located at BSC within the Computer Sciences Department We offer a full‐time contract (35h/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: 22 days of holidays + 6 personal days + 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement A full CV in English including contact details A cover/motivation letter with a statement of interest in English, clearly specifying for which specific area and topics the applicant wishes to be considered. Evaluation of previous experience and/or scientific history, degree, training, and other professional information relevant to the position.

- The recruitment panel will be composed of at least three people, ensuring at least 25% representation of women. After reviewing the content of the applications, the panel will begin the interviews, with at least one technical and one administrative interview. 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.

📌 Junior Research Engineer (Barcelona)
🏢 Barcelona Supercomputing Center
📍 Barcelona