Research Engineer On Computer Architecture for Ai

**Job Reference**:

- 765_24_CS_SONAR_RE2**Position**:

- Research Engineer on Computer Architecture for AI (RE2)**Closing Date**:

- Friday, 15 November, 2024**Reference**: 765_24_CS_SONAR_RE2**Job title**: Research Engineer on Computer Architecture for AI (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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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 positions at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS). 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 architectures.

Experience in some of these topics is strongly appreciated.

The funding for these actions/fellowships and contracts comes from the European Union Recovery and Resilience Facility - Next Generation, within the framework of the General Invitation by the public business entity Red.es to participate in the talent attraction and retention programs within Investment 4 of Component 19 of the Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan.**Key Duties**
- Formulate and evaluate new ideas in a rigorous way
- Write technical reports and papers
- Use and extend scientific code (Tensorflow, simulators, parallel runtime systems, etc.)

**Requirements**:

- Education
- Master in Computer Science or close area
- Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Computer Architecture: micro-architecuture, instruction-set architecture, cache hierarchy, simulation techniques
- Artificial Intelligence: rule-based reasoning, decision trees, support vector machines, neural networks
- Programming: C/C++, OpenMP/MPI, CUDA, etc
- Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Operating Systems: Linux, scripting, OS scheduler
- 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: December 2024

**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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