JUNIOR VERIFICATION RESEARCHER (RE1)

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 staff from 60 countries.
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Context And Mission The Barcelona Zettascala Lab’s mission is to position Europe as a global leader in high-performance computing (HPC).
Innovating the design of advanced chips, Europe will drive technological sustainability and foster a robust ecosystem that includes both hardware and software.
BZL counts on the support of the NextGenerationEU program, aligned with the strategic objectives of the European Union.
Our commitment is to uncover technological solutions that enable significant advances in science, industry, and society, guaranteeing a competitive and sustainable digital future for all European citizens.
Our research group is looking for a highly motivated research engineer interested in accelerating applications with novel HPC architectures.
Come join our group to address the challenge of accelerating traditional HPC, AI and bioinformatics workloads with increasingly large and complex datasets.
In this exciting role, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with a dynamic team of researchers and engineers, contributing to leading scientific research.
Key Duties * You will use your architecture and debugging expertise to verify complex digital designs, focused on scalar cores and multi-core systems.
* You will collaborate closely with design and verification engineers in active projects and perform hands-on verification, and contribute to design, build, and integrate the designs.
* You will build tests for verification environments that exercise processor designs through their corner-cases and expose all types of bugs.
* You will be involved in the full life cycle of verification, including verification planning, test and assertion implementation, failure triaging, debugging, coverage definition and others.
Requirements Education BS degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent.
Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience Deep understanding of computer architecture concepts and their implementation in modern in-order and out-of-order processor core microarchitectures.
Understanding of multi-core architectures, multi-threaded programming and cache coherence protocols.
Familiarity with ISA-level specifications.
Experience with SystemVerilog or other HDL, simulation and debugging of designs.
Fluency writing C- and Asm- tests.
Knowledge of and experience with industry-standard simulators (Model/QuestaSim, VCS, etc.), revision control systems and regression systems.
Strong debugging skills and able to work with design engineers to deliver functionally correct design blocks.
Execute tests.
Analyze data, prepare reports summarizing results and statistics.
Scripting experience using scripting languages like Python, Perl, Bash or Tcl to perform support adjustments and customization of design and verification flows.
Familiarity with Linux.
Fluency in English.
Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience Knowledge of vector architectures.
Familiarity with the RISC-V architecture.
Competences Ability to work independently, take initiative, prioritize and work under set deadlines.
Ability to work as part of a cross-functional team according to an established timeline Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
Ability to think creatively.
Conditions The position will be located at BSC within the Computer Sciences Department We offer a full-time contract (37.
h/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.
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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