Reference: 106_25_ES_EMW_RE2
Job title: Workflow Management Software Engineer (RE2)
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 1000 staff from 60 countries.
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Context And Mission
In the framework of the Earth-Sciences department, the candidate will substantially improve the efficiency and productivity of numerical weather and climate simulations on high-performance computing platforms by supporting the end-to-end workflows of global Earth system modeling in HPC environments.
This will be obtained by improving and supporting: the development and operation of modeling workflows on state-of-the-art supercomputer systems, and the usability of these models and tools throughout the European HPC ecosystem.
The candidate will develop solutions for cross-cutting HPC challenges, in particular in the weather and climate domain, and help to develop existing workflow orchestration software.
Key Duties
- Join the Autosubmit development team and work on improvements for the Autosubmit workflow engine.
- Contribute to the Autosubmit development strategy by analyzing the user needs and learning from the benefits and disadvantages of the most used workflow tools in the Earth Sciences domain.
- Maintain the operational deployment on different HPC platforms.
- Support the users inside and outside the BSC center by adding new features to the existing and new tools.
- Contribute to the convergence and efficiency of the different workflows running in the department.
- Disseminate the results obtained through peer-review publications and presentations at conferences.
- Facilitate the adoption of the solutions developed through workshops and seminars in and out of the department.
- Maintain the software in Git and deploy it to the HPC module and to the PyPi repository, publishing both source code updates and documentation.