HPC Workflows Engineer

The candidate will be part of an international workgroup developing modeling workflows for state-of-the-art modelling projects. These workflows will preferably run with the Autosubmit workflow orchestrator, developed by the same team, and scale within top-notch EuroHPC Pre-Exascale systems.

https://bsc.es/research-development/research-areas/computational-earth-sciences/models-and-workflows-team 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., * 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.

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• 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 specialized 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 within international collaborative projects, so it is mandatory to be able to fulfill schedules and coordinate with members from other institutions, as well as disseminate the advances in international workshops.

• 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: 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

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. Look at the BSC experience: BSC-CNS YouTube Channel Let's stay connected with BSC Folks! 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 Within the Computational Earth Sciences group, the selected candidate will be part of the Models and Workflows team to develop software to run modeling experiments in Pre-Exascale High-Performance Computing facilities. The Models and Workflows (MWT) team studies and develops essential frameworks and tools for efficiently running modeling experiments on HPC infrastructures. It is a growing team of approximately 30 members, closely collaborating with the Performance, Data, and AI teams, as well as the other scientific groups within the Department.