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9 months ago About BSC
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 800 staff from 55 countries.
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Context And Mission
The Earth Science department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center searches for a data engineer to work on data standardisation for Earth Sciences. The work includes two separate parts of the data standardisation.
The first part consists of the lead of the work package 2 of the European project Climateurope2 (https://climateurope2.eu/). This project aims at supporting and standardising climate services in Europe and beyond, and the work of this work package is to identify existing standards and potential gaps to describe (meta)data , identify best practices and user requirements in provenance and lineage information and ways to present them as well as defining and enhancing verification and certification methods that are required to provide quality assurance and FAIRness of data, processes and products.
The second part of the work is more oriented to code development and optimization in python using data standardisation tools of the climate community to convert data to netCDF following the CMOR conventions. Such developments are required to improve the department tools and for tasks in ongoing European projects due to the increase of resolution of the climate models. It includes optimization on High Performance Computers, deployment and including of new features in existing tools.
The successful candidate will work in the Data and Diagnostics Team, from the Computational Earth Sciences Group in very close collaboration with the Earth System Services and Climate Variability and Change groups’ scientists.
Key Duties
Co-lead the meetings and work of ClimatEurope2’s work package 2 Improve the computational performance of the CMORization packages of the department Contribute to the maintenance and development of new features of CMOR tools
Requirements
Education
- Having a Bachelor in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics or related discipline.
Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Good development skills in Python
- Knowledge of Earth Sciences formats and standards (CMOR, netcdf, CF…)
- Experience with UNIX/LINUX environments, scripting languages (bash, …) and version control systems (git, or svn) will be valued
- Experience in Earth Sciences tools and libraries (CDO, NCO, xarray,…) and managing large volumes of data will be appreciated
- Keen to learn on how to develop scientific applications on parallel computers
Competences
- Capacity to interact and build strong relations with both climate and computer scientists
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to take initiatives, prioritize the tasks and work under set deadlines
- Ability to work both independently and within a team
- Ability to learn and adapt to multiple programming languages easily
- Fluency in English, both speaking and writing
Conditions
- 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: 23 paid vacation days plus 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
Applications procedure and process
All applications must be made through BSC website and contain:
- A full CV in English including contact details
- A Cover Letter with a statement of interest in English, including two contacts for further references - Applications without this document will not be considered
More information about the position can be found here.