High Performance and Scientific Computing Engineer

• Education: MSc or PhD in computer science, software engineering, computational physics, or related fields.
• Knowledge and Experience
  • Strong skills in Linux environments, especially in scientific environments. Expertise with installation, administration, monitoring, and maintaining secure Linux/Unix operating systems.
  • Familiarity with low-latency/high-bandwidth, interconnected infrastructure (including Infiniband, 10/100GigE, and others).
  • Expertise with HPC cluster management tools, job schedulers, and other HPC tools.
  • Knowledge of HPC storage principles, file systems and compute node storage.
  • Proficiency with fundamental programming skills (Bash, Python, Fortran, C).
  • Familiarity with shared and distributed memory parallelism (OpenMP, MPI), and accelerators (GPUs) and its programming tools (OpenACC, CUDA,...).
  • Proficiency with multi-vendor management, security and network/Internet protocols.
  • Ability to establish processes for maintaining system performance and managing best-in-class standards, including the monitoring of new relevant developments in the HPC field.
  • Experience building and debugging large-scale engineering/scientific software in large clusters and heterogeneous architectures is desirable.
  • Experience in the use of mathematical libraries is desirable.
  • Experience in performance analysis is desirable.
  • Experience leveraging cloud platforms (AWS, Azure...) to deploy scientific computing is desirable.
• Personal Competences:
  • Ability to communicate efficiently in English (both written and spoken) is a must. Catalan knowledge will be valued.
  • Strong skills for building and maintaining detailed and accurate documentation.
  • Teamwork skills required.

• Full time work (37.5h/week)
• Contract Length: Permanent.
• Location: Bellaterra (Barcelona)
• Salary will depend on qualifications and demonstrated experience.
• Support for relocation issues.
• Life Insurance.

Estimated Incorporation date: As soon as possible

This Job position is following the requirements of Law 20/2021, of 28 December, on urgent measures to reduce temporary employment in the public sector.

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The mission of the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) is to achieve the highest level of scientific and technological excellence in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. Its research lines focus on the newly-discovered physical and chemical properties that arise from the behaviour of matter at the nanoscale. ICN2 has been awarded with the Severo Ochoa Center of Excellence distinction for three consecutive periods (2014-2018, 2018-2022 and 2023-2026). ICN2 comprises 20 Research Groups, 7 Technical Development and Support Units and Facilities, and 2 Research Platforms, covering different areas of nanoscience and nanotechnology.

Job Title: High Performance and Scientific Computing Engineer

Research area or group: IT Department, Theory and Simulation Group, and Theoretical and Computational Nanoscience Group

We seek for a computing engineer with demonstrated experience in the installation and management of High-Performance Computing infrastructures, specialized in scientific computing. The successful candidate will engage with the IT department of ICN2, and with the research groups that use scientific computing as a tool in their research, to set up and run the computational facilities of the centre. Tasks and responsibilities will also include the installation and maintenance of scientific libraries, queuing systems, storage infrastructures, hardware, network communication and all other necessary actions for a smooth and efficient performance of the HPC facilities.

A high capacity to understand and cover the needs of the scientific groups that use the HPC facilities is key for this position. In this respect, although scientific programming is not among the tasks of the position, successful candidates must be able to interact with the researchers developing the scientific software, and thus must have sufficient knowledge of scientific programming languages and tools (Fortran, parallelization, I/O, numerical methods, etc). Knowledge of usage of modern heterogeneous architectures (including GPUs) is also a must.

The mission of the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) is to achieve the highest level of scientific and technological excellence in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. Its research lines focus on the recently discovered physical and chemical properties that arise from the behavior of matter at the nanometric scale. ICN2 has been awarded the Severo Ochoa Center of Excellence distinction for three consecutive periods (2014-2018, 2018-2022, and 2023-2026). ICN2 consists of 20 Research Groups, 7 Development and Technical Support Units and Facilities, and 2 Research Platforms, covering different areas of nanoscience and nanotechnology.

Job Title: High-Performance Computing and Scientific Computing Engineer

Research Area or Group: Department of Computer Science, Simulation and Theory Group, and Theoretical and Computational Nanoscience Group

We are seeking a computer engineer with proven experience in the installation and management of high-performance computing infrastructures, specialized in scientific computing. The selected candidate will collaborate with the ICN2 Computer Science Department and with research groups that use scientific computing as a tool in their research, to configure and operate the center's computational facilities. Duties and responsibilities will also include the installation and maintenance of scientific libraries, queue systems, storage infrastructures, hardware, network communications, and all other actions necessary for the proper and efficient operation of the HPC facilities.

A high capacity to understand and meet the needs of the scientific groups using the HPC facilities is key for this position. In this regard, although scientific programming is not among the duties of the position, selected candidates must be able to interact with researchers who develop scientific software and, therefore, must have sufficient knowledge of scientific programming languages and tools (Fortran, parallelization, I/O, numerical methods, etc.). Knowledge of the use of modern heterogeneous architectures (including GPUs) is also essential.

· Education: Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computational Physics, or related fields.

· Knowledge and Experience

- Strong skills in Linux environments, especially in scientific environments. Experience in the installation, administration, supervision, and maintenance of secure Linux/Unix operating systems.

- Knowledge of interconnected low-latency/high-bandwidth infrastructure (including Infiniband and debugging of scientific software/engineering at scale in

- Experience with HPC cluster management tools, job schedulers, and other HPC tools.

- Knowledge of HPC storage principles, file systems, and compute node storage.

- Proficiency with fundamental programming skills (Bash, Python, Fortran, C).

- Knowledge of shared and distributed memory parallelism (OpenMP, MPI), and accelerators (GPU) and their programming tools (OpenACC, CUDA,...).

- Proficiency with the management of various providers, security, and network/Internet protocols.

- Ability to establish processes to maintain system performance and manage best-in-class standards, including monitoring new relevant developments in the field of HPC.

- Experience in the creation and debugging of large-scale scientific/engineering software on large clusters and heterogeneous architectures is desirable.

- Experience with mathematical libraries is desirable.

- Experience in performance analysis is valued.

- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS

- The ability to communicate efficiently in English (both written and spoken) is essential. Knowledge of Catalan will be valued.

- Strong skills for creating and maintaining detailed and accurate documentation.

- Teamwork skills are required.

· Full-time (37.5h/week)

· Contract type: Permanent.

· Location: Bellaterra (B

· Salary will depend on qualifications and demonstrated experience.

· Support for relocation issues.

· Life insurance.

Estimated start date: As soon as possible

This job position complies with the requirements of Law 20/2021, of December 28, on urgent measures for the reduction of temporality in the public sector.

All applications must be submitted through the ICN2 website and must include the following:

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2. A complete CV with contact details.

3. 2 Reference letters or contacts with the referee.

Application deadline: 31/03/2023*

*Extended application deadline: 31/07/2023