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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 900 staff from 55 countries.
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In instances of equal merit, the incorporation of the under-represented sex will be favoured.
Context And Mission The Workflows and Distributed Computing Group at BSC is looking for a researcher to lead the strategy and development of dataClay, an open-source object-based data management platform.
A distinguishing feature of dataClay is that, from the point of view of the applications, data is stored and managed in the form of objects, which include both the data as well as the methods to manipulate it.
In this way, dataClay is able to perform different optimizations to increase the performance of applications using these objects.
The objective of this position is to lead the design and development of dataClay and the new features and applications required in the context of the ICOS project.
Key Duties Lead the design and development of dataClay in the context of the ICOS project and in collaborations with other research groups within and outside the BSC.
Lead the integration of dataClay in the proof-of-concept resulting from the ICOS project and its validation in real scenarios through the project use cases.
Lead the strategy of dataClay beyond ICOS, including funding opportunities.
Scientific dissemination of results Requirements Education PhD in Computer Architecture, Computer Science, or related discipline.
Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience >2 years of experience in a similar position Outstanding programming skills in Python and knowledge of its internals Strong mathematical background >5 years of experience in distributed computing >5 years of experience in international research projects Experience with non-volatile memories Experience in deploying and managing software stacks on HPC and IoT environments Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience Performance analysis tools Parallel programming Operating systems File systems Containers and orchestration Competences Strong analytical and programming skills Capacity to understand new concepts Capacity to generate new ideas and solutions Capacity to work independently and in a team Fluency in spoken and written English 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.
As soon as possible 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.
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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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