Senior Technical Leader

**Job Reference**:

- 59_25_CS_HWE_RE4

**Position**:

- Senior technical leader (RE4)

**Closing Date**:

- Friday, 31 January, 2025

**Reference**: 59_25_CS_HWE_RE4

**Job title**: Senior technical leader (RE4)

**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 Laboratory of Open Computer Architecture at Barcelona Supercomputing Center aims at carrying out research programs in topics from Computer Architecture to System Software to Applications in both traditional HPC and emerging High-Performance Data Analytics (HPDA). Our work is mainly done in the context of a Spanish project to foster interdepartmental and international collaboration for the next generation of co-designed HPC systems.

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**Key Duties**
- Group leadership for a team of hardware and software researchers and developers.
- Provide technical leadership for projects from concept to completion.
- Define, implement and execute on the technical vision with high-quality outcomes with mínimal risk.
- To write high-quality technical reports and papers.
- Contribute to deliverables and milestones defined in the Severo Ochoa project.
- Provide technical support project coordinators.
- Verify technical aspects of hardware and software contributions and implementation studies.
- Contribute to supervise other junior members of the team.
- Work together with other researchers and developers and ensure the appropriate implementation of previously agreed standards and methodologies.

**Requirements**:

- Education
- Master, PHD or Grade in Computer Science, Electronics, Telecommunications or Automation
- Comparable skills obtained from work experience can also be accepted
- Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
- At least 10 years of professional experience in similar roles.
- At least 10 years of professional experience in the design, implementation and deployment of research projects in Computer Architecture, Systems, or HPC Systems, or HPC.
- Ar least one of the following:

- Deep Understanding of high-performance computing codes, including both inter-node communications (E.g.MPI), intra-node parallelism (E.g. OpenMP) and low-level optimizations.
- Deep understanding of high-performance system software, including but not limited to compilers, runtimes, libraries, etc.
- Deep understanding of high-performance computing architectures, including floating-point accelerators (GPUs, vector architectures).
- Computer Architecture: micro-architecture, memory hierarchy, familiar with assembly code
- Practical experience designing digital hardware designs (RTL, VHDL or Verilog)
- Systems: Linux, RTEMS or other embedded/real-time OS.
- Programming: C/C++, Assembler, Open MP/MPI, CUDA, scripting (shell, TCL, Python, etc.), etc.
- Familiarity with basics on digital processor or microcontroller designs, either as part of his/her studies or work experience
- Experience working with Unix/Linux systems
- Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Knowledge of processor microarchitecture (e.g. Arm, Infineon, Intel, or AMD processors among others) is welcome
- Knowledge of electronics is welcome
- Experience with FPGA use and debug tools is also welcome
- Experience with cloud and/or edge computing
- Deep understanding of simulators, performance analysis tools and performance modeling methodologies
- Competences
- Team leadership skills
- Good writing and presentation skills
- Used to work under pressure under strict deadlines.
- Experience in developing project technical specifications.
- Project management skills: reporting, documenting, and planning.
- Ability to work independently and in a team
- Ability to establish and develop research collaborations with external partners
- Ability to present ideas and results in a precise and succinct way
- Ability to take initiative, prioritize and work under set deadlines
- Strong troubleshooting atti