HPC Workflows Engineer (RExxx)

Closing Date: Friday, 21 November, ****

Job Reference: xxx

About BSC

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing centre 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 **** staff from 60 countries.

Context And Mission

Within the Computational Earth Sciences group, the selected candidate will be part of the Models and Workflows team to develop software to run modelling experiments in Pre-Exascale High-Performance Computing facilities.

The Models and Workflows team (MWT) studies and develops essential frameworks and tools to efficiently run modelling experiments on HPC facilities.

It is a growing team of 30 members with intense collaboration with the Performance and Data teams and scientific groups.

The candidate will be part of an international workgroup developing modelling workflows for state-of-the-art Digital Twins.

These workflows will preferably run with the Autosubmit workflow orchestrator, developed by the same team, and scale within top-notch EuroHPC Pre-Exascale systems.

Key Duties

Develop workflow scripts and libraries to execute Earth models on state-of-the-art HPCs.

Contribute to the development and execution of automated tests.

Work within an Agile framework, attend project meetings and contribute to writing project reports.

Contribute to the porting and testing of state-of-the-art Digital Twins to Pre-Exascale systems.

Requirements

Education

Having a Bachelor in Computer Science, Physics, or related discipline.

Having a Master's degree will be valued.

Essential Knowledge And Professional Experience

Good development skills and experience with UNIX/LINUX environments.

Experience in Python programming and/or scripting languages (Bash).

Experience in version control in a collaborative environment.

Additional Knowledge And Professional Experience

Understanding of HPC computer architecture issues, including CPU, accelerators, memory, interconnect, parallel I/O, and computational performance in general.

Experience with coding and documentation best practices and standards.

Troubleshooting and debugging skills.

Previous experience in a scientific area related to the research position will be appreciated.

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.

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 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 candidate will work for an international collaborative project, so it is mandatory to be able to fulfil schedules and coordinate with members from other institutions, as well as 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 (37.5 h/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

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.

Development of the recruitment process

The selection will be carried out through a competitive examination system ("Concurso-Oposición").

The Recruitment Process Consists Of Two Phases

Curriculum Analysis: Evaluation of previous experience and/or scientific history, degree, training, and other professional information relevant to the position.

(40 points)

Interview phase: The highest-rated candidates at the curriculum level will be invited to the interview phase, conducted by the corresponding department and Human Resources.

In this phase, technical competencies, knowledge, skills, and professional experience related to the position, as well as the required personal competencies, will be evaluated.

(60 points).

A minimum of 30 points out of 60 must be obtained to be eligible for the position.

The recruitment panel will be composed of at least three people, ensuring at least 25% representation of women.

In accordance with OTM-R principles, a gender-balanced recruitment panel is formed for each vacancy at the beginning of the process.

At BSC, we seek continuous improvement in our recruitment processes.

For any suggestions or comments/complaints about our recruitment processes, please contact ******.

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Equal Opportunity Employer

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, colour, 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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