Job Reference
305_22_CS_CTHPC_RE12
Position
Exascale Supercomputer OpenMP Runtime Software Development Engineer (RE12)
Closing Date
Friday, 30 June, 2023
Reference: 305_22_CS_CTHPC_RE12
Job title: Exascale Supercomputer OpenMP Runtime Software Development Engineer (RE12)
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, and is a hosting member of the PRACE European distributed supercomputing infrastructure. 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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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.
Look at the BSC experience:
BSC-CNS YouTube Channel
Let's stay connected with BSC Folks!
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.
Context And Mission
BSC is looking for talented and motivated professionals with expertise in supporting and porting OpenMP parallelism across a variety of HPC architectures,in particular, targeting a RISC-V-based ISA for a European HPC accelerator.. This is a NEW project to build the software infrastructure and toolchain for an FPGA-based emulator for an energy-efficient Exascale system.
Key Duties
- Design, implement, test, debug, tune, and maintain a RISC-V-based OpenMP implementation, which includes compiler and runtime library support for both CPU and GPU-like and other architectures.
- Be responsible for the full software development lifecycle - designing, development, testing, and operating scalable systems in production.
- Architect solutions to achieve a high level of reliability, scalability and security.
Requirements
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Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science or related Engineering degree or equivalent level of professional experience.
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Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Experience with OpenMP, or another on-node shared-memory parallel programming model (e.g., pthreads, C/C++ threading, etc.).
- Familiarity with GPU architectures and programming models (e.g., CUDA, OpenCL, OpenACC, OpenMP 4.5/5.0 offloading, etc.).
- Commitment to sound software engineering principles and outstanding problem-solving skill.
- An intimate understanding of distributed-memory and shared-memory parallelism and a proven ability to port complex software packages between computer architectures.
- Agile development and open source development, deployment, and support, including GitHub or equivalent.
- Open source software committer a plus.
- Able to work effectively in Microsoft Office applications or equivalent.
- Fluency in English is essential, Spanish is welcome.
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Competences
- The candidate must be an effective communicator, multitask, and work well on collaborative designs.
- Keeps abreast of technology trends.
- Ability to think creatively.
- Ability to work independently and make decisions.
- Ability to take initiative, prioritize and work under set deadlines and pressure.
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: 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
In accordance with the OTM-R principles, a gender-balanced recruitment panel is formed for every vacancy at the beginning of the process. After reviewing the content of the applications, the panel will start the interviews, with at least one technical and one administrative interview. A profile questionnaire as well as a technical exercise may be required during the process.
The panel will make a final decision and all candidates who had contacts with them will receive a feedback with details on the acceptance or rejection of their profile.
At BSC we are seeking continuous improvement in our recruitment processes, for any suggestions or feedback/complaints about our Recruitment Processes, please contact recruitment [at] bsc [dot] es.
For more information follow this link
In accordance with the OTM-R principles, a gender-balanced recruitment panel is formed for every vacancy at the beginning of the process. After reviewing the content of the applications, the panel will start the interviews, with at least one technical and one administrative interview. A profile questionnaire as well as a technical exercise may be required during the process.
The panel will make a final decision and all candidates who had contacts with them will receive a feedback with details on the acceptance or rejection of their profile.
At BSC we are seeking continuous improvement in our recruitment processes, for any suggestions or feedback/complaints about our Recruitment Processes, please contact recruitment [at] bsc [dot] es.
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Deadline
The vacancy will remain open until 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 planels 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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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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