Starting date: ASAP

Job Reference: 406_26_ES_CES_RE2

Position: HPC Engineer for Earth Sciences applications (RE2)

Closing Date: Thursday, 03 September, ****

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 **** staff from 60 countries.

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Context And Mission Within the Barcelona Supercomputing Center the Earth Sciences Department, led by Prof Francisco Doblas-Reyes, aims to deliver novel, advanced, and well-evaluated high-resolution global climate models capable of simulating and predicting climate estimations with unprecedented reliability.

Key Duties





The successful candidate will work on profiling and implementing computational optimizations for Earth Sciences applications running at a very high-resolution configuration using top European HPC platforms.

Lead the CPU Profiling & Optimization Unit, providing technical supervision, direction, and domain oversight to team members across projects.

The candidate will also be involved in developing the department's "common" tools: these include several applications whose interest is shared among different sub-groups in the Earth Sciences department and whose number of users can range from small groups to several institutions.

This position involves close interaction with the Climate Variability and Change (CVC) group and external collaborators/software vendors.

Education

Having a Bachelor in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or related discipline

Having a Master's degree will be valued

Essential Knowledge And Professional Experience

- Excellent computing skills in high-level computer languages (especially Fortran or C/C++) and experience with Unix/Linux environments and scripting languages (Bash, Python, etc)
- Programming skills to manage big and collaborative projects and experience with git and/or SVN
- Experience in HPC performance and profiling tools such as Intel VTune
- Experience in compiling, running and optimizing scientific codes on large HPC systems
- Experience in HPC architecture and parallel programming paradigms such as MPI and OpenMP




- Experience working with novel architectures and emerging technologies such as RISC-V
- Experience or knowledge in the usage and support of Unix- or Linux-based HPC systems

Competences
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Proactive attitude
- 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 (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

Salary

we offer a competitive salary commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the candidate and according to the cost of living in Barcelona

Starting date

ASAP

BSC-CNS is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.

BSC-CNS is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.

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.

Deadline The vacancy will remain open until a suitable candidate has been hired.

Applications will be regularly reviewed and potential candidates will receive feedback.

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📌 Hpc Engineer For Earth Sciences Applications (Re2) (Madrid)
🏢 Barcelona Supercomputing Center
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