SENIOR TECHNICAL LEADER – CO-DESIGN ACTIVITIES AROUND RISC-V (ES & CS) (RE2-3)

The position will be located at BSC within the Earth Sciences DepartmentWe 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 proceduresDuration.
Open-ended contract due to technical and scientific activities linked to the project and budget durationHolidays.
23 paid vacation days plus 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreementSalary.
we offer a competitive salary commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the candidate and according to the cost of living in BarcelonaStarting date.
asap Context And MissionThe Laboratory of Open Computer Architecture (LOCA) at Barcelona Supercomputing Center aims to break through traditional disciplinary silos and lead the research and development of European open software and hardware stacks based on the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture for Exascale and beyond.
This will be done with BSC’s scientific departments to produce highly optimized grand challenge scientific applications in climate modelling, personalized medicine and energy.
LOCA spans topics ranging from Computer Architecture to System Software to Applications, in both traditional HPC and emerging High-Performance Data Analytics (HPDA) and is working towards EU autonomy in HPC technologies.
BSC is looking for one domain expert for each of the centre’s application departments (Earth Science, Life Science and Engineering Sciences) to contribute to this aim.
This is being done with the support of BSC’s Severo Ochoa award for the period, which aims to boost BSC capacities to codesign hardware and software, maximise internal and external synergies, expand international leadership, provide best-practice career development with strong gender actions, and enhance societal engagement and technology transfer.
(https://www.
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s/discover-bsc/research-excellence/severo-ochoa) The candidate will work for the Earth Sciences Department, led by Prof Francisco Doblas-Reyes, aims to deliver novel, advanced, and well-evaluated high-resolution global climate models capable of simulating and predicting climate estimations with unprecedented reliability.
This work is done through computational and numerical models implemented to work in massive supercomputers and novel hardware.
Main goal.
Apply domain expertise and coordinate activities performed by the Earth Sciences computational applications focused on the identification, characterization, optimization, and co-design of HPC applications in collaboration with experts on system software and open hardware architectures.
ey DutiesIdentify applications of interest for Earth Sciences department that can benefit from other groups/departments' support.
elp to characterize the core applications for the department by using the resources available at BSC and contribute to the definition of Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for improving their performance.
ork to optimize domain applications for BSC-designed RISC-V HPC processors in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team and contribute to enhancing the full HPC stack.
e the representative of the department for the LOCA co-design Severo Ochoa activitiesFollow the progress of PhD students and research engineers of the department, associated with the LOCA initiativeIdentify existing co-design activities being performed within multiple, track the work, inform on relevant aspects, promote synergies and exchange of best practice.
o-organize regular sessions to disseminate the knowledge, progress, and projects of the Severo Ochoa, in the shape of workshops and/or seminars.
equirementsEducationHaving a Bachelor and master in Computer Science, Telecommunications, Physics or related discipline.
ost-doc or experienced engineerEssential Knowledge and Professional ExperienceGood development skills and experience with UNIX/LINUX environments.
xcellent computing skills in high-level computer languages (especially FORTRAN or C/C++).
nderstanding of HPC computer architecture issues including CPU, accelerators, memory, interconnect, parallel I/O, and computational performanceKnowledge in different hardware architectures and co-design.
dditional Knowledge and Professional ExperienceMinimum 2 years of experience in technical management/coordinationFluency in English and SpanishMix of technical and soft skillsCompetencesGood communication skills (verbal and written), and ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to non-experts.
ood organization skills, and ability to work under pressure.
roactive and able to take the initiative when needed.
nterpersonal skills.
the candidate will be working in close collaboration with all the different groups and departments.
reative thinking.
perate independently but love being part of a collaborative team.