Context And Mission

Within the Barcelona Supercomputing Center the Earth Sciences Department, led by Prof Francisco Doblas-Reyes, aims to deliver novel, advanced, and well-evaluated high-resolution global climate models capable of simulating and predicting climate estimations with unprecedented reliability. The successful candidate will be part of the Performance Team a sub-group in the section of Computational Earth Sciences.

This team, composed of 17 members but steadily growing, performs R&D tasks in the field of Earth system modelling (ESM) performance: its goal is to identify model bottlenecks and research how to remove them. The team has at its disposal cutting-edge performance tools, able to evaluate and represent different performance metrics. Having identified those areas in the code, the experts in the team proceed to modify them without impacting the final results. Possible solutions can go from using more efficient numerical algorithms to modifying the way the model exploits the HPC infrastructure.

Key Duties

The selected candidates will work in an international multidisciplinary and innovative research group.
The main goal will be to work on the improvement of the computational metrics developed to quantify the computational and energy cost of the models in Destination Earth, FUTURA, ENES-RISE projects and other projects in the department
Work on carbon footprint and energy efficiency quantification tasks.

Requirements

Education
Having a Bachelor in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or related discipline
Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
Experience or knowledge in running and optimizing scientific codes on large HPC systems.
Experience in software for the evaluation of Earth System Models using computational performance metrics
Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
Demonstrated verbal communication and technical presentation skills.
Fluency in English.
Competences
Highly motivated and willingness to work in an international multidisciplinary group.

Conditions

The position will be located at BSC within the Earth Sciences Department
We offer a full-time contract (35h/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: 22 days of holidays + 6 personal days + 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