Job Reference

584_25_ES_CES_R0

Position

Undergraduate Student - Computational Earth Sciences (R0)

Closing Date

Friday, 17 October, 2025

Reference: 584_25_ES_CES_R0

Job title: Undergraduate Student - Computational Earth Sciences (R0)

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.

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We are particularly interested for this role 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

The Department of Earth Sciences of the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS), BSC-ES henceforth (bsc.es/earth-sciences) is one of the most active groups in air quality and atmospheric composition modeling, climate prediction, and climate services in Europe. The Department comprises about 200 people, including scientists and technical staff. It is structured into five distinct but interacting research groups: Atmospheric Composition, Climate Prediction, Earth System Services (ESS), Global Health Resilience, and Computational Earth Sciences.

Successful candidates will benefit from the training program and the BSC-CNS staff benefits: an international multidisciplinary scientific environment, advanced research training, and advanced computational facilities.

We are seeking a highly motivated student in computer science, environmental sciences, or a related field to contribute to cutting-edge research in machine learning applications for Earth Sciences.

This position offers the opportunity to contribute to the development of an Open Science Platform that supports transparent, reproducible, and scalable data science workflows for regional climate prediction and extreme event attribution. The selected candidate will work within the framework of the European project EXPECT, which focuses on improving the prediction and understanding of regional climate changes and extremes through advanced climate simulations, Earth observations, and machine learning.

The Open Science Platform aims to empower the climate science community by providing accessible tools and resources, including data processing pipelines, machine learning model training code, pretrained models, benchmarks, and evaluation protocols. This platform plays a critical role in building data science capacity and fostering collaboration among researchers across disciplines.

This internship or bachelor's thesis project will provide hands-on experience in developing and maintaining reproducible data science workflows, contributing to open-source repositories, and supporting the integration of machine learning into climate science applications. The role offers a dynamic, interdisciplinary environment with close collaboration between climate scientists, data engineers, and machine learning researchers.

Key Duties

• Develop and maintain open-source repositories containing data processing pipelines, machine learning training scripts, and model evaluation tools related to climate prediction and extreme event attribution.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of reproducible data workflows, ensuring transparency and usability for the broader climate science community.
• Collaborate with climate scientists and machine learning experts to integrate models and datasets into the platform, and to adapt tools to different use cases and research needs.
• Document pretrained models, benchmark datasets, and evaluation protocols, making them accessible and easy to use by external researchers.
• Support the deployment and maintenance of the Open Science Platform, including version control, continuous integration, and basic platform testing.
• Participate in meetings and collaborative efforts within the EXPECT consortium and with external users to gather feedback and improve the platform's usability and scientific value.
• Contribute to outreach and training materials, such as tutorials and example notebooks, to support the adoption of the platform by the climate research community
  
  

Requirements

• Education
• Enrolled in a Bachelor's or Master’s program in Computer Science, Math, Data Science, Environmental Sciences, or a related field.
• Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
• Strong programming skills in Python and familiarity with machine learning libraries such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or Scikit-learn.
• Experience in handling, analyzing, and validating large datasets.
• Experience in developing and training machine learning models.
• Familiarity with working in a UNIX-based computational environment.
• Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
• Experience working with climate, weather and earth datasets formats (netcdf, zarr,..) .
• Working knowledge of High-performance computing (HPC).
• Experience with GPU-accelerated machine learning frameworks such as RAPIDS.
• Competences
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to work independently and proactively in a research environment.
• Effective communication and teamwork skills.
• Proficiency in written and spoken English.
  

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: 01/10/2025
  
  

Applications procedure and 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.
  
  

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. After reviewing the content of the applications, the panel will begin the interviews, with at least one technical and one administrative interview. At a minimum, a personality questionnaire as well as a technical exercise will be conducted during the process.

The panel will make a final decision, and all individuals who participated in the interview phase will receive feedback with details on the acceptance or rejection of their profile.

At BSC, we seek continuous improvement in our recruitment processes. For any suggestions or comments/complaints about our recruitment processes, please contact [email protected].

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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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