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Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)

HPC analyst, researcher, and software developer - AI4S (R3)

Barcelona

FULL TIME

October 16, 2024

Job Reference
732_24_CS_BPPP_R3
Position
HPC analyst, researcher, and software developer - AI4S (R3)
Closing Date
Thursday, 31 October, 2024
Reference: 732_24_CS_BPPP_R3
Job title: HPC analyst, researcher, and software developer - AI4S (R3)


About BSC
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain. It houses Mare Nostrum, 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 Euro HPC 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
BSC is seeking a senior candidate to work on applications analysis, and parallelization. We are looking for people with expertise in compilation and runtime infrastructures targeting parallelism; to provide support for application analysis and parallelization. The applications will be written in high-level languages with MPI, Open MP, and other device offload models. As a senior candidate will need to supervise the group contributions to the projects, as well as mentoring junior members of the group. A minimum of 8 years of professional experience is required.

The funding for these actions/fellowships and contracts comes from the European Union Recovery and Resilience Facility - Next Generation, within the framework of the General Invitation by the public business entity Red.es to participate in the talent attraction and retention programs within Investment 4 of Component 19 of the Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan.
For more information, please check: https://www.bsc.es/join-us/excellence-career-opportunities/ai4s

Key Duties
  • Application performance analysis and parallelization
  • Support to debugging and maintenance of codes
  • Interaction with application providers
  • Produce effective and thorough technical documentation
  • Writing of articles/reports about the implementations/optimizations carried out
  • Supervise and plan research/engineering activities
  • Mentoring junior members of the group
Requirements
  • Education
    • Ph D in Computer Science
  • Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
    • Experience in UNIX/LINUX environments and scripting languages
    • An intimate understanding of distributed-memory and shared-memory parallelism
    • High skills in high-level programming languages: C and C++ (Fortran will be valued)
    • High skills in parallel programming models (e.g., Open MP, Omp Ss, MPI)
    • Good skills in GPU programming models/languages (e.g., Open MP Offloading), (CUDA, Open ACC, Open CL will be valued)
    • Knowledge about Linux debugging, profiling and performance analysis tools
  • Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
    • Professional experience: minimum 8 years
    • Fluency in spoken and written English (Spanish and Catalan will be valued)
  • Competences
    • Good communication and presentation skills
    • Ability to learn and adapt to multiple programming languages easily
    • Ability to take initiative, prioritize and work under set deadlines and pressure
    • Ability to work independently and in a team
    • Ability to supervise and coordinate the work of other team members
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
  • Duration: 4 years
  • Holidays: 23 paid vacation days plus 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement
  • Salary: 55.000,00€
  • Additional Expenses Grant: Each fellowship will be associated with a grant for additional expenses, such as IT equipment, travel, training, stays, etc.
  • Starting date: asap - the incorporation for this vacancy must be before the 16th of December 2024
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 recruitment [at] bsc [dot] es.
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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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