Starting date: 01/11/2026

Job Reference

469_26_OP_US_HPC

Position

High-Performance Computing Support engineer

Closing Date

Thursday, 29 October, 2026

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.

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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. In instances of equal merit, the incorporation of the under-represented sex will be favoured.

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If you consider that you do not meet all the requirements, we encourage you to continue applying for the job offer. We value diversity of experiences and skills, and you could bring unique perspectives to our team.





Context And Mission

The Operations Department ensures the continuous daily functioning of the Spanish Supercomputing Network supercomputers and remote access by users both within Spain and internationally. In addition to all the routine maintenance and operations tasks, the Department staff is also heavily involved in planning and designing new systems and support facilities.

We are offering a position for a High-Performance Computing support engineer. For this position, we are seeking a technology and Linux enthusiastic person who can learn from the basics of the HPC and develop the skills to become a specialist and an essential team member. We work in a warm and positive work atmosphere with close collaboration between us.

Come and join one of the top leading and more powerful supercomputers in Europe

Key Duties

- Resolve the incidences that the Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES) users may have during their executions, as well as assist them in developing their applications to obtain efficient use of the computational resources
- Help the User Support and applications consultant group with performance application monitoring and parallel optimization.
- Work in new solutions to improve the user experience using HPC resources




- Create new solutions to automatize the resolution of incidents or request to facilitate the day-to-day work of the team.

Requirements

- Education
- Degree in Computer Science or related discipline

- Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience

- Minimum 1 year of working experience in an HPC center working with system incidents and user requests.
- Experience and knowledge in Linux systems
- Experience in parallel programming models (MPI, OpenMP, threads,...) is an advantage but not a requirement.

- Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience

- Good level of English
- Experience in MySQL, PYTHON and BASH script.

- Competences

- Capacity to interact and build strong relations with the team
- Good written and verbal communication skills

Conditions

- The position will be located at BSC within the Operations 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: 01/11/2026

Development of the recruitment process

The selection will be carried out through a competitive examination system

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