Offer Description
Context And Mission Are you passionate about technology, Linux systems, Artificial intelligence trends, and high-performance computing? Do you want to be part of a leading supercomputing center in Europe? Look no further! The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is seeking a talented individual to join our Operations Department as a User Support specialist on AI projects.
Supercomputers are indispensable tools for solving the most challenging and complex scientific and technological problems not just through simulations. Now the usage of neural networks and large language models for solving engineering problems is possible and helping companies to achieve their goals using AI technologies is our challenge. This position will be integrated into the operations department within the User Support team. The team will work on AI applications support for the most relevant projects asking for BSC resources, including performance optimization support, code porting, specific AI tutoring and support, improvement of the scalability and performance of the models.
BSC hosts one of the biggest supercomputers in Europe within the framework of EUROHPC joint undertaking. The pre-exascale machine hosted by BSC is named MareNostrum 5 and has a total of 205 PFlops sustained with more than 180 of them accelerated with the latest NVIDIA technology, using H100 GPUs. The HPC support team has a direct role improving the usage of this machine and to help the most relevant projects in their day-to-day usage.
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 Optimize and adapt scientific application codes to new pre-exascale architectures and systems, focusing on AI applications and technologies.
Improve the performance of existing AI environments, improving the serial efficiency and the scalability, changing, if necessary, the code or helping the developers with their required modifications.
Choose and adapt algorithms and/or library routines to improve applications to specific computer architectures (accelerators, new programming models, etc.).
Provide consultancy to scientists on AI solutions that can improve the evolution of their research.
Generate performance analysis and benchmarks for selected applications and report the results to the applications developers.
Collaborate with other functional groups at European and International level on technical matters related to supporting AI scientific application work.
Requirements Research Field: Computer science » Computer systems
Education Level: Bachelor Degree or equivalent
Skills/Qualifications Bachelor in Computer Science or related discipline linked with Artificial Intelligence at technical level.
Experience working with AI models and running them in parallel in HPC systems.
Experience using performance analysis tools, and parallel debuggers.
Experience supporting and collaborating with external partners.
Good understanding of Linux environment and Shell scripting.
Experience working with Parallel programming codes (MPI and OpenMP) and batch systems like SLURM as a user.
At least 1 year of experience in a similar position working with AI solutions.
Experience in managing big and collaborative projects and experience with git and SVN.
Experience porting codes to accelerators specifically NVIDIA GPUs.
A thorough understanding of high-performance computing architectures.
Experience porting and optimizing applications on UNIX-based systems experience in Fortran, C, MPI, OpenMP, and parallel methods.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to be able to work within a team to complete tasks on schedule.
Analytical problem-solving ability.
Benefits The position will be located at BSC within the Operations 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.
Duration: 4 years
Holidays: 23 paid vacation days plus 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement.
Salary: 40,000.00 €
Additional Expenses Grant: Each fellowship will be associated with a grant for additional expenses, such as IT equipment, travel, training, stays, etc.
Starting date: asap - the incorporation for this vacancy must be before the 16th of December 2024.
Selection process All applications must be submitted via the BSC website and contain:
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.
The selection will be carried out through a competitive examination system. The recruitment process consists of two phases: Curriculum Analysis and Interview phase. The recruitment panel will be composed of at least three people, ensuring at least 25% representation of women.
For more information, please follow the BSC website.
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