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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 SupercomputaciÃ3n (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 RD 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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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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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. The successful candidate will be part of the Performance Team a sub-group in the section of Computational Earth Sciences.

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.

Requirements 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, flexible 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 agreemen