.Organisation/Company: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientificasDepartment: Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio)Research Field: Computer science » Programming; Biological sciences » OtherResearcher Profile: First Stage Researcher (R1)Positions: PhD PositionsCountry: SpainApplication Deadline: 31 Dec 2024 - 23:59 (Europe/Madrid)Type of Contract: TemporaryJob Status: Full-timeHours Per Week: 37.5Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programmeIs the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? NoOffer Description Context:The project will involve contributing code to an existing software developed to run simulations of populations of cells using personalised models, and exploiting the capabilities of high-performance computing in different clusters, such as I2SysBio's Garnatxa, CSIC's DRAGO and BSC's MareNostrum5.The successful candidate will join a new lab in a dynamic interdisciplinary research centre, which integrates independent senior scientists who work on various aspects of computational biology, ranging from bioinformatics for genomics and proteomics to systems biology modelling. The Researcher will work in a sophisticated scientific environment and will have access to highly-specialised systems and computational infrastructures.Key Duties:Apply technical expertise in the areas of parallel computing, distributed computing and software performance to an agent-based simulation tool.Leverage computer-aided design tools (CAD) and GUIs to ease the setting-up of agent-based simulations.Develop novel physically-sound agent-based functions to better simulate tissues and organs.Apply best practices to software development, involving versioning the code, tracking changes and preparing adequate documentation to guide their use and installation.Contribute to the implementation and deployment of unit tests to study the scalability and efficiency of the optimised solutions.Contribute to the implementation of a CI/CD suite to test and deploy the code.Participate in internal group meetings and other scientific discussions.Where to apply E-mail: ****** Research Field: Computer scienceEducation Level: Bachelor Degree or equivalentSkills/QualificationsEducation: BSc in Computer Science or related.Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience: Knowledge of scientific computing.Knowledge of parallel and distributed computing.Good programming skills in C++.Administration level in Linux/Unix systems.Specific Requirements: Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience: MSc in Computer Science with background on parallel and distributed computing.Background on scientific computing, scaling up of tools and performance analysis in HPC.Experience implementing software solutions using OpenMP and MPI technologies.Interest in computational biology and the simulation of biological processes.Experience in reporting results in scientific projects