Research Engineer

**Job Reference**: - 117_25_CS_SONAR_RE2 **Position**: - Research Engineer (RE2) **Closing Date**: - Saturday, 22 February, 2025 **Reference**: 117_25_CS_SONAR_RE2 **Job title**: Research 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 1000 staff from 60 countries. Look at the BSC experience: BSC-CNS YouTube Channel Let's stay connected with BSC Folks 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. **Context And Mission** - Applications are invited for research engineer positions at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS). The engineer will become a member of a world class research group that frequently contributes to top computer architecture and high-performance computing venues (E.g. SC, ISCA, HPCA, HPDC, or PPoPP). Research activities will be focused on one or several of the following topics, among others: 1. Virtual memory management: Acceleration of virtual to physical address translation, hardware support for OS, management of irregular workloads. 2. High-performance computing architectures: Acceleration of floating-point intensive workloads via reconfigurable or vector processors. 3. Cache management policies for graph and strongly irregular workloads. 4. Numerical libraries for scientific computing with focus on long vector and GPU architectures. Experience in some of these topics is strongly appreciated. **Key Duties** - Formulate and evaluate new ideas in a rigorous way - Write technical reports and papers - Use and extend scientific code (numerical libraries, simulators, etc.) **Requirements**: - Education - Master Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or close area - Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience - Computer Architecture: micro-architecuture, resource sharing in multicores, cache hierarchy, simulation techniques - Artificial Intelligence: rule-based reasoning, decision trees, support vector machines, neural networks - Operating Systems: Linux, scripting, OS scheduler - Programming: C/C++, OpenMP/MPI, CUDA, etc - Competences - Ability to take initiative and prioritize - Ability to work independently and in a team - Capacity to interact and build strong relations with other research groups - Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English **Conditions** - The position will be located at BSC within the Computer Sciences Department - We offer a full-time contract (37.5h/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: 23 paid vacation days plus 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement - Starting date: February 2025 **Applications procedure and process** - 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. Additionally, two references for further contacts must be included. Applications without this document will not be considered. **Development of the recruitment process** The selection will be carried out through a competitive examination system ("Concurso-Oposición"). The recruitment process consists of two phases: - **Curriculum Analysis**: Evaluation of previous experience and/or scientific history, degree, training, and other professional information relevant to the position. - **_40 points_**: The recruitment panel will be composed of at least three people, ensuring at least 25% representation of women. The panel will make a final decision, and all individuals who participated in the interview phase will receive feedback with details on the acceptance or rejection of their profile. At BSC, we seek continuous improvement in our recruitment processes. For any suggestions or comments/complaints about our recruitment processes, please contact recruitment [at] bsc [dot] es. For more information, please follow this link.