Research Engineer

**Job Reference**:

- 968_24_ES_CES_RE2

**Position**:

- Research engineer - HPC Workflows Engineer (RE2)

**Closing Date**:

- Friday, 03 January, 2025

**Reference**: 968_24_ES_CES_RE2

**Job title**: Research engineer - HPC Workflows 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.

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**Context And Mission**

The Models and Workflows team (MWT) studies and develops essential frameworks and tools to efficiently run modeling experiments on HPC facilities. It is a growing team of 20 members with intense collaboration with the Performance and Data teams and scientific groups.

**Key Duties**
- Develop workflow scripts and libraries to execute Earth models on state-of-the-art HPCs.
- Contribute to the development and execution of automated tests.
- Work within an Agile framework, attend project meetings and contribute to writing project reports.
- Contribute to the porting and testing of state-of-the-art Digital Twins to Pre-Exascale systems.

**Requirements**:

- Education
- Having a Bachelor in Computer Science, Telecommunications, Physics or related discipline.
- Having a Master’s degree will be valued.
- Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Good development skills and experience with UNIX/LINUX environments.
- Experience in Python programming and/or scripting languages (Bash).
- Experience in version control in a collaborative environment, including SVN or Git.
- Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Understanding of HPC computer architecture issues, including CPU, accelerators, memory, interconnect, parallel I/O, and computational performance in general.
- Experience with coding and documentation best practices and standards.
- Troubleshooting and debugging skills.
- Previous experience in a scientific area related to the research position will be appreciated.
- Experience working with Earth Digital Twins
- Competences**Conditions**
- The position will be located at BSC within the Earth 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: ASAP

**Applications procedure and process**
- A full CV in English including contact details
- A Cover Letter with a statement of interest in English, including two contacts for further references - Applications without this document will not be considered

At BSC we are seeking continuous improvement in our recruitment processes, for any suggestions or feedback/complaints about our Recruitment Processes, please contact recruitment [at] bsc [dot] es.

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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.
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