Climate Workflows Research Engineer

Climate: Past, Present & Future (CL) Earth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI) Energy, Resources and the Environment (ERE) Type: Full time Level: Experienced Open: 13 December 2024 Posted: 13 November 2024 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.
We are particularly interested in the strengths and lived experiences of women and underrepresented groups to help us avoid perpetuating biases and oversights in science and IT research.
In instances of equal merit, the incorporation of the under-represented sex will be favoured.
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.
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: Within the Computational Earth Sciences group, the successful candidate will be part of the Models and Workflows team, being in charge of improving and maintaining the existing software stack that is used to manage and monitor scientific experiments in different High-Performance Computing facilities, as well as providing support to the scientific groups of the Earth Sciences department.
The Models and Workflows team devotes to the research and development of methodologies and tools essential to efficiently use the variety of computing resources available at the BSC and in other HPC institutions.
The team is composed of more than 18 members and has strong connections with the Performance and Data & Diagnostics teams, as well as with the scientific groups.
The candidate will work within the EC-Earth climate model ecosystem, which is developed and maintained by various institutions in Europe, including the BSC.
EC-Earth 3 is an established model with a solid in-house supporting software stack, which is developed following a Continuous Delivery strategy supported by cyclic pseudo-automatic testing.
EC-Earth4 is the new model cycle that will bring structural changes with important involvement of the BSC.
This model will run on state-of-the-art systems such as the upcoming EuroHPC Pre Exascale systems.
Key Duties: Be the main responsible for the EC-Earth model department infrastructure, developing and maintaining the supporting software stack and workflow additions, taking care of the project repository and supporting the scientific developments.
Be in charge of the testing strategy and the workflow documentation.
Improve the testing software, allowing these tests to be performed in a pseudo-automatic fashion.
Support scientific experiments by helping the department users, addressing arising technical issues and communicating further necessities to the rest of the team, developers of the underlying software stack.
Collaborate with members of the department and other institutions in the improvement of the system.
Communicate the advances and progresses in department events such as training and tutorials or international workshops.
Port the model, supporting software and the whole workflow in general, to new platforms to sustain the department's scientific production.
Requirements: Education: Having a Bachelor in Computer Science, Telecommunications, Physics or related discipline.
Having a Master's or PhD degrees will be valued.
Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience: Excellent development skills and experience with UNIX/LINUX environments.
Knowledge of development and execution of scientific applications on parallel computers.
Understanding of HPC computer architecture issues including CPU, accelerators, memory, interconnect, parallel I/O, and computational performance.
Experience in the execution of numerical climate models.
Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience: Experience of version control in a collaborative environment, including Git or SVN.
Experience of Python programming and/or scripting languages (Bash).
Previous experience in scientific Python packages (Python Numpy, Scipy, …) will be valued.
Previous experience in a scientific area related to the research position will be appreciated.
Experience with testing procedures and containerization methodologies will be valued.
Competences: Earth system models are sophisticated tools and High-Performance Computers are complex systems.
The candidate needs to have excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive attitude to address new challenges and perfect the current solutions so they gain in reliability and efficiency.
This is a specialised position so the successful candidate is expected to have a demonstrated learning capacity and the motivation to maintain a learning progression during the contract.
The BSC Earth Sciences department is an international and interdisciplinary environment, so the candidate must be fluent in English and have good written and verbal skills and the capacity to support Earth and Computational scientists.
EC-Earth is a collaborative project, so it is mandatory to be able to fulfil schedules and coordinate with members from other institutions, as well as to disseminate the advances in international workshops.
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 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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