Accelerate climate applications through novel hardware (RE2-3)

Reference: 826_24_ES_CES_RE3
Job title: Accelerate climate applications through novel hardware (RE2-3)

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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If you consider that you do not meet all the requirements, we encourage you to continue applying for the job offer. We value diversity of experiences and skills, and you could bring unique perspectives to our team.

Context And Mission

Barcelona Supercomputing Center aims to lead the research and development of European open software and hardware stacks based on the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture for Exascale and beyond. This will be done from Earth Sciences department to produce highly optimized grand challenge scientific applications in climate modelling. BSC is looking for one computer architecture expert willing to join us in this challenge.

The candidate will work for the Earth Sciences Department, led by Prof Francisco Doblas-Reyes, aims to deliver climate prediction and change studies. This work is done through computational applications implemented to work in massive supercomputers and novel hardware.

Main goal:
Adapt and accelerate computational applications performed by the Earth Sciences department focused on the identification, characterization, optimization, and co-design of HPC applications in collaboration with experts on system software and open hardware architectures.

Key Duties

Work to optimize domain applications for BSC-designed RISC-V HPC processors in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team and contribute to enhancing the full HPC stack.
Be the representative of the department for the DARE project.
Identify co-design activities and work on the new optimizations in collaboration with the rest of the group.
Co-organize regular sessions to manage and coordinate the work

Requirements

EducationHaving a Bachelor and master in Computer Science, Telecommunications, Physics or related discipline.
Post-doc or experienced engineer can be valued
Essential Knowledge and Professional ExperienceGood development skills and experience with UNIX/LINUX environments.
Excellent computing skills in high-level computer languages (especially FORTRAN or C/C++).
Understanding of HPC computer architecture issues including CPU, accelerators, memory, interconnect, parallel I/O, and computational performance
Knowledge in different hardware architectures and co-design.
Additional Knowledge and Professional ExperienceExperience in technical management/coordination can be valued
Fluency in English and Spanish
Mix of technical and soft skills
CompetencesGood communication skills (verbal and written), and ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to non-experts.
Good organization skills, and ability to work under pressure.
Proactive and able to take the initiative when needed.
Interpersonal skills: the candidate will be working in close collaboration with all the different groups and departments.
Creative thinking.
Operate independently but love being part of a collaborative team.

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
Salary: we offer a competitive salary commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the candidate and according to the cost of living in Barcelona
Starting date: asap

Applications procedure and process

All applications must be made through BSC website and contain:

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

In accordance with the OTM-R principles, a gender-balanced recruitment panel is formed for every vacancy at the beginning of the process. After reviewing the content of the applications, the panel will start the interviews, with at least one technical and one administrative interview. A profile questionnaire as well as a technical exercise may be required during the process.

The panel will make a final decision and all candidates who had contacts with them will receive a feedback with details on the acceptance or rejection of their profile.

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Deadline

The vacancy will remain open until a suitable candidate has been hired. Applications will be regularly reviewed and potential candidates will be contacted.

OTM-R principles for selection processes

BSC-CNS is committed to the principles of the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers of the European Commission and the Open, Transparent and Merit-based Recruitment principles (OTM-R). This is applied for any potential candidate in all our processes, for example by creating gender-balanced recruitment panels and recognizing career breaks etc.
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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