Scientific Software Development Position

The research group "High Performance Computing" under the guidance of Prof. Florina Ciorba is looking for a scientific software developer. Our research team studies the interplay between the HPC systems and their applications with a focus on the performance optimization of the applications executing on the system. The starting date would be June 2019 with a duration of 13 months.

Your position

Development of an Exascale-grade mini-app* for astrophysics and computational fluid dynamics, with specific tasks such as:

• Code development following the C++14 standard
• Code parallelization via shared-memory and accelerator-based programming, task-based programming for on-node multi-threaded execution, as well as distributed-memory programming for the multi-process execution across computing nodes
• Use high performance parallel I/O libraries
• Use of state-of-the-art hierarchical and/or distributed dynamic load balancing techniques to exploit the massive hardware parallelism at runtime
• Implementation of fault-tolerance mechanisms
• Development of test cases for the mini-app
• Performance testing and tuning of the developed mini-app on distributed systems
• Employ modern software development techniques and best-practices, using a continuous integration system and containerization solutions

* SPH-EXA: Optimizing Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics for Exascale Computing, https://hpc.dmi.unibas.ch/HPC/SPH-EXA.html

Your profile

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computational Science or Mathematics;
• Very good programming skills in C/C++;
• Experience in parallel programming: (OpenMP, HPX, MPI) is a plus;
• Experience with accelerator programming (OpenACC, OpenMP 4.5, CUDA) is a plus;
• Experience with containerization solutions would be an advantage;
• English fluency (verbally and in writing);
• Strong team-working abilities;
• Ease of interaction in a multicultural environment; and
• Experience in carrying out research projects and writing project reports is a plus.

We offer you

• Joining a dynamic and supporting working environment
• Collaboration with highly skilled cosmologists, astrophysicists and computer scientists with software engineering background
• Work tasks with significant impact on the scientific community
• The privilege of using one of the top #5 most powerful supercomputer in the world (Piz Daint).