Engineer for hardware design
Role details
Job location
Tech stack
Job description
Our research group is looking for a highly motivated research engineer interested in accelerating applications with novel HPC architectures. Come join our group to address the challenge of accelerating traditional HPC, AI and bioinformatics workloads with increasingly large and complex datasets. In this exciting role, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with a dynamic team of researchers and engineers, contributing to leading scientific research. Key Duties
- Managament, maintenance, and optimization of working infrastructures
- Monitoring and alerting system development
- Automatizing and improving the efficienty of working procedures
- Implementing and maintaining backup and dissaster recovery mechanisms
- Applying security and compliance protocols and mechanisms
- Providing support to developers and researchers by demand according to European and National projects' needs
- Writing and maintaining technicial documentation, * 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 recruitment [at] bsc [dot] es. For more information, please follow this link.
Requirements
- Education
- Bachelor in Computer Architecture Engineering, or similar (e.g. Electrical/Informatic/Telecommunication engineering...)
- Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
- 5-10 years of experience in similar role
- Experience in using and developing in GIT (GitLab and GitHub)
- Experience using and maintaining Virual machines, containers
- Strong scripting skills (python, bash, make...) and System admin (Linux)
- Experience in Terraform, Ansible, Grafana, and data bases
- Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Understanding of the digital chip design flow is recommended
- Competences
- Capability to work under pressure
- Inter-personal skills
- Open to work in a diverse and multicultural environment
- Team-work
- Proactivity
Benefits & conditions
- The position will be located at BSC within the Computer 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: 16/04/2026
