• Name of the position

Research Software Engineer for HPC Applications

  • Institution hosting

Deutschen Klimarechenzentrum DKRZ (Germany)

  • Conditions of the job offered

Within the ESiWACE3 Centre of Excellence, funded by the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), DKRZ supports international collaborations in preparing Europe’s Weather and Climate Models for exascale systems.

We offer work in interdisciplinary teams and excellent connections to national and international research networks. In addition to specific implementation and support requests from our project partners, your tasks are also characterised by the freedom to creatively work at the interface of theoretical computer science and the development of scientific applications.

We are based in Hamburg (Germany), but we want to create a suitable working environment by offering flexible working hours and location (up to 100% work at home within Germany). The advertised position can be filled on a full-time or part-time basis. Remuneration will be based on the applicant's qualifications in accordance with TVöD-Bund up to pay group E13. You are welcome to start on the 1st of July, 2023, but the exact start date can be agreed upon individually. The position is funded through the ESiWACE3 project and is initially limited until 31 December 2026.

  • Position Overview

As part of an international team of HPC experts from a supercomputer vendor and research engineers specialising in software for science, you will work to improve the efficiency of selected weather and climate codes and prepare the software to run on existing and near-future hardware architectures. The work will be structured in collaborative projects of six to twelve months, in which the ESiWACE3 team of experts will provide engineering effort, advice, and knowledge transfer to the code owners. The aim of these efforts may be to enable simulation experiments at unprecedented grid resolutions or ensemble sizes or to include computationally expensive physical processes that were previously not feasible. It could also reduce the time-to-solution or energy-to-solution of current state-of-the-art simulations.

  • Requirements
    • Academic degree with a background in computer science, Earth-System science or mathematics.
    • Experience in parallel programming for HPC systems
    • Experience in high-level programming languages, at least one of C, C++ or Fortran
    • Experience in GPU programming is an advantage
    • Excellent communication skills and knowledge of English
    • And, of course, you should enjoy programming and working with state-of-the-art supercomputers

  • Contact detail

If you are interested, please send your application, quoting reference number DKRZ-08_2023, with a letter of motivation and a detailed curriculum vita (all in one pdf file) to bewerbungen@dkrz.de.

Questions? Dr Hendryk Bockelmann (bockelmann@dkrz.de) will happily answer them in advance.

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