RESEARCH ENGINEER ON CONTAINERIZATION AND ITS ORCHESTRATION, AND IAC FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS (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.
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Context And Mission The Critical and Autonomous Systems (CAOS) group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center carries out research in system-level software for critical embedded systems in charge of controlling critical application software in domains like automotive, avionics, and space.
Our work is mainly carried out in the context of bilateral projects with several companies in the embedded world as well as several European-funded projects.
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s/caos The deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) based solutions to deliver advanced software functionalities is consolidating as a key competitive factor in several industrial domains.
In the automotive industry, for instance, two examples are advanced driving assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving (AD) software which are meant to support autonomous operation.
This trend towards smarter cars goes hand in hand with increased connectivity (between cars and with the cloud) for increased efficiency and optimized production and deployment.
In this context, a set of technologies originally developed for high-performance domains like cloud computing and data-center domains are increasingly considered in embedded systems like automotive.
This includes containerization technologies, container-management technologies, and advanced configuration management paradigms such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC) technologies.
The offered position is meant to cover a Research Engineer position for the exploration of specific tools for containerization, container orchestration, and IaC in embedded critical systems.
The overarching goal is simplifying, developing, and specifying software and hardware configuration and monitoring solutions that are beneficial for embedded systems in terms of timing predictability and resiliency to hardware faults.
Those configurations must be managed as automated as possible exploiting reference tools used for managing and provisioning computer infrastructures (e.
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with Terraform and Ansible) and deploying and managing containers (e.
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with Kubernetes).
Key Duties Familiarization with existing IaC technologies specially Terraform and Ansible Familiarization with container management technologies like Kubernetes Understand integration/integration between those technologies (e.
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Terraform’s Kubernetes provider) Develop a small use case with the use of these technologies in which platform-related configurations can be provisioned and managed by these tools Requirements Education Master’s Degree on Computer Science, Computer Architecture or Telecommunications Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience Practical experience in generic programming (C, C++, etc.) Familiarity with High Performance Domain-Specific Architectures Familiarity with Multiplatform Applications Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience Familiarity with scripting languages (e.
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Python) Familiarity with RISC-V is a plus Competences Problem-solving, proactive, collaborative, and result-oriented work attitude Good communication skills including proficiency in English (both written and spoken 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 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.
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