Workflow Management Software Engineer

Starting date: ASAP

Closing Date: Thursday, 31 December, **

Job title: Workflow Management Software Engineer (RE2)

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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Inclusion

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.

We promote Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, fostering an environment where each and every one of us is appreciated for who we are, regardless of our differences.

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

In the framework of the Earth-Sciences department, the candidate will substantially improve the efficiency and productivity of numerical weather and climate simulations on high-performance computing platforms by supporting the end-to-end workflows of global Earth system modeling in HPC environments.

This will be obtained by improving and supporting: the development and operation of modeling workflows on state-of-the?art supercomputer systems, and the usability of these models and tools throughout the European HPC ecosystem.

The candidate will develop solutions for cross-cutting HPC challenges, in particular in the weather and climate domain, and help to develop existing workflow orchestration software.

Key Duties

• Coordinate the BSC activities related to the technical development, testing, improvements, and documentation of the Autosubmit workflow engine.
• Contribute to the Autosubmit development strategy by analyzing the user needs and learning from the benefits and disadvantages of the most used workflow tools in the Earth Sciences domain.
• Identify priorities, find gaps in the plan, and contribute to the short and medium?term strategy to ensure objectives are met.
• Contribute to the convergence and efficiency of the different workflows running in the department.
• Support the users inside and outside the BSC center by adding new features to the existing and new tools.
• Maintain the operational deployment on different HPC platforms.
• Maintain the software in Git and deploy it to the HPC module and to the PyPi repository, publishing both source code updates and documentation.
• Facilitate the adoption of the solutions developed through workshops and seminars in and out of the department.
• Disseminate the results obtained through peer?review publications and presentations at conferences.

Requirements

• Having a Bachelor in Computer Science or related discipline.
• Having a Master's degree will be valued.

• Excellent development skills in Python 3 and OOP, and experience with UNIX/LINUX environments and scripting languages (bash, ...)
• Experience writing and maintaining tests (unit, functional, ...)

• Experience in version control in a collaborative environment, including SVN or Git
• Previous experience in scientific Python packages (Python Numpy, Scipy, ...) will be valued
• Previous experience in a scientific area related to the research position will be appreciated
• Previous experience with workflow management solutions will be highly valued.

• Capacity to interact and build strong relations with both Earth and Computer scientists
• Excellent problem?solving skills with