.Job Reference: 333_24_CS_AHPC_R3Position: Established Researcher (Homomorphic Encryption) - ERC Project (R3)Closing Date: Thursday, 31 October, 2024About BSC: The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain.
It houses Mare Nostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, and is a founding member of the former European HPC infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe).
BSC is now the hosting entity for Euro HPC JU, which leads large-scale investments and HPC provision in Europe.The mission of BSC is to research, develop, and manage information technologies to facilitate scientific progress.
BSC combines HPC service provision and R&D in both computer and computational science (life, earth, and engineering sciences) under one roof, currently employing 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 favored.
We promote Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, fostering an environment where each individual is appreciated for who they are, regardless of their differences.Context And Mission: The Accelerators and Communications for HPC Group leads cutting-edge research and development around accelerators/coprocessors in HPC and high-performance networking.
We collaborate closely with major vendors in the topic for HPC: NVIDIA and Intel.
We organize international events such as the PUMPS Summer School, PATC Courses on CUDA/Open ACC, and annual hackathons, and collaborate in the organization of related international conferences and workshops such as SC, IEEE Cluster, or As HES.
The group has recently been awarded one of the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grants.Key Duties:Coordinate software-hardware co-design efforts in the project.Advise on R&D related to homomorphic encryption in collaboration with researchers, research engineers, and students with expertise in different domains of high-performance computing.Write papers and scientific documents.Drive dissemination and communication tasks (attend conferences, drive related training events, etc.
).Requirements:Education: PhD in a related field (already acquired or near graduation).Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience: Cryptography background, preferably in Homomorphic Encryption, from a computer science perspective.Competences: Good English level, scientific writing, able to understand or quickly acquire basic concepts of computer architecture and software optimization/parallelization.Conditions: The position will be located at BSC within the Computer Sciences Department.
We offer a full-time contract (37