PYTHON CLIMATE DEVELOPER FOR DATA STANDARDIZATION

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.
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Context And Mission Coupled climate models, running on High-Performance Computers, generate very large amounts of data in formats specific to the Earth Sciences Community, GRIB, and NetCDF.
To allow the proper integration of the data into community tools, formatting of the data is necessary, adding metadata, doing GRIB to NetCDF conversion and ensuring full compliance to the CMOR (Climate Model Output Rewriter) format.
The Data and Diagnostics, composed of 23 engineers belonging to the Earth Science department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, is searching for one engineer willing to work on developing, updating, and maintaining these formatting jobs based on the ece2cmor python package inside the workflow of the department, including the git branches management.
Depending on the efficiency of the candidate (s), he might also contribute to the maintenance and update of the Earth System Grid Federation data node of the BSC, where the climate data are shared with the rest of the community.
Key Duties Update and optimize the libraries of the CMORization Python job in HPC Participate in the maintenance of the different branches of the workflow User support for climate scientists using the tool Requirements Education Having a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or a related discipline.
Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience Good development skills in Python Experience with UNIX/LINUX environments, scripting languages (bash, …), and version control systems (git, or svn) Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience Experience in Earth Sciences file types (NetCDF, GRIB,...), tools (CDO, NCO, xarray,…), and managing large volumes of data will be appreciated Keen to learn how to develop scientific applications on parallel computers Competences Capacity to interact and build strong relations with both climate and computer scientists Excellent written and verbal communication skills Ability to take initiative, prioritize tasks, and work under set deadlines Ability to work both independently and within a team Ability to learn and adapt to multiple programming languages easily Fluency in English, both speaking and writing Conditions The position will be located at BSC within the Earth 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.
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