Job Description
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) – The Research University in the Helmholtz Association creates and imparts knowledge for the society and the environment. It is our goal to make significant contributions to mastering the global challenges of mankind in the fields of energy, mobility, and information. For this, about 9.800 employees of KIT cooperate in a broad range of disciplines in research, academic education, and innovation.
We are looking for the Scientific Computing Center (SCC) from 01.04.2025, limited for 2 years, for a
Research Software Engineer (f/m/d)
for HPC
The Scientific Computing Center is the Information Technology Center of KIT.
- Develop sustainable research software in close collaboration with domain researchers
- Participate in diverse research projects to enhance their software development processes
- Enable high-performance computing features in existing research software, such as performance optimizations or hardware portability
- Improve research software running on HPC cluster operated in the state of Baden-Württemberg
- Build strong communities with domain researchers, as well as national and international research software engineers
- Take part in the full research cycle including grant application and publishing
- You hold a completed university degree (master's level) in a STEM subject. A completed doctorate is advantageous but not mandatory
- Strong knowledge in a programming language relevant to HPC, such as Python, C, C++, or FORTRAN
- Strong knowledge of good software development practice, such as version control, documentation, CI/CD etc.
- Experience with developing for heterogeneous and distributed systems and their relevant technologies, such as MPI, OpenMP, CUDA, ROCm, or SYCL
- Experience using Linux-based HPC clusters
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to work in teams and communicate progress
of staff of the only German University of Excellence that conducts large-scale research on the national level. Work under excellent working conditions in an interna-tional environment and be active in research and academic education for our future. Benefit from specific training when starting your job and from a wide range of further qualification offers. Use our flexible working time models (flexitime, work from home), our sports and lei-sure offers, as well as our child and holiday care services. We also pay a share of EUR 25/month in the Job Ticket Baden-Württemberg. Enjoy a large variety of dishes, snacks, and beverages at our canteens.
We prefer to balance the number of employees (f/m/d). Therefore we kindly ask female applicants to apply for this job.
Recognized severely disabled persons will be preferred if they are equally qualified.
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