HPC Systems & Scheduling Developer (m/f/d)

GES.F.WISS.DATENVERARBEITUNG MBH GOETTINGEN; Göttingen; Vor Ort; EUR 58.000 - 71.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Flexible hours

Partial mobile working

Diverse work environment

Professional development

Public sector benefits

Zusammenfassung

GWDG in Göttingen is seeking an HPC Systems & Scheduling Developer (m/f/d) to join the QC team and work on anomaly detection platform, full-time 39 hours per week.

You will connect quantum workloads to HPC infrastructure, optimize SLURM, build transpilation pipelines, and monitor performance; fluency in English required.

Qualifikationen

• PhD and/or Master's in CS, Physics, or related field.
• Ability to code in Python.
• Proven coding experience without AI assistance.
• Expertise in optimizing HPC stacks for proper system implementation and tuning.
• Experience building and operating software-based services, ensuring long-term maintainability.
• Knowledge in QC (quantum computing) job characteristics and resource requirements.
• Fluent English (spoken and written).

Aufgaben

• Connect quantum workloads to GWDG's existing HPC infrastructure.
• Take responsibility for scheduler logic, including SLURM partition mapping.
• Optimize SLURM execution for Quantum Computing Jobs.
• Implement HPC transpilation pipelines and broader workflows for HPC/AI preprocessing/postprocessing.
• Performance tuning of hybrid workloads.
• Implementation of monitoring and benchmarking mechanisms.

Kenntnisse

Python

English fluency

Ausbildung

PhD or Master's in CS/Physics

Tools

SLURM

Jobbeschreibung

The GWDG is seeking an

HPC Systems & Scheduling Developer (m/f/d)

to join an interdisciplinary team of HPC experts in the working group "Computing" (AG C), full-time (39 hours perweek), remunerated in accordance with TVöD E 13. The position is tied to the GWDG QC project's runtime running tillOctober 2029. The successful candidate is expected to contribute in developing GWDG's QC ecosystem (seeresponsibilities listed below). The GWDG handles sensitive data, and in such cases, it is important that the code ishuman-verified for any security concerns. The applicant must demonstrate the ability to do such a verification withoutAI assistance in the interview.

The Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG) is the university computing centerfor the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and a computing and IT competence center for the Max Planck Society.The provision of high-performance HPC systems has been one of its tasks for over 40 years. In 2020, the Universityof Göttingen / GWDG was accepted as one of eight computing centers (NHR-Nord@Göttingen) in the National High-Performance Computing (NHR) network. The GWDG also operates the national AI service center KISSKI and is apartner in the EU AI Factory HammerHAI. Furthermore, the GWDG operates HPC resources for the GermanAerospace Center (DLR). As a national supercomputing center, the GWDG provides technical support to researchersand students from various scientific domains, including digital humanities, life science, earth system science, andengineering. We also participate in both national and international research projects. In the field of quantumcomputing, the GWDG also runs the QUICS project, providing SMEs with access to quantum computing resources.

We are looking for highly motivated candidates to join the QC team at the GWDG focused on anomaly detection forindustry applications. The goal is to build a platform for such use cases based on existing stacks, giving companies a tool for quantum anomaly detection.

The GWDG together with the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science and the Campus Institute Data Science(CIDAS) of the University of Göttingen provides a stimulating research environment in Scientific Computing, with anopportunity to conduct research in the intersection of applied computer science, High-Performance Computing,Quantum Computing, and AI.

Responsibilities

Focus:

Connecting quantum workloads to GWDG's existing HPC infrastructure. Requires a deep understanding ofboth classical HPC architectures and the specific characteristics of quantum jobs. The developer will takeresponsibility for scheduler logic, including:

• SLURM partition mapping
• Optimization of SLURM execution for Quantum Computing Jobs
• Implement HPC transpilation pipelines and, more generally, workflows for HPC/AI pre- and post-processing
• Performance tuning of hybrid workloads
• Implementation of monitoring and benchmarking mechanisms

Requirements

• PhD and/or Master's degree in Computer Science, Physics, or a related field, combined with demonstrableindustry or research experience
• Ability to code in Python
• Proven coding experience (without AI assistance): scope, functions, variables, classes, array methods, etc.
• Demonstrable expertise in optimizing HPC stacks for proper system implementation and tuning
• Experience building and operating software-based services, ensuring long-term maintainability
• Knowledge in QC (quantum computing) job characteristics and resource requirements, and familiarity withcompiler/transpiler pipelines
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills
• Fluent English (spoken and written)

Do you fit

all the above requirements? Then we welcome your application!

Desirable

• Demonstrable experience tuning SLURM (partitioning, QoS, job prioritization policies) in a production HPCenvironment
• Experience benchmarking and profiling hybrid classical/quantum or GPU workloads
• Experience enabling optimal, resource-efficient operation of hybrid classical/quantum workloads
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tooling for HPC systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana)
• Background in systems administration or DevOps for research computing infrastructure
• German B2 or higher

Our offer

• Flexible working hours and opportunity for partial mobile working
• A modern, diverse work environment at the intersection between academia and industry
• An interesting, versatile job in a large, internationally operating IT competence center
• Qualification and further development of your skills
• Social benefits of the public sector

The GWDG strives for gender equity and diversity and therefore welcomes applications from any background. TheGWDG strives to employ more severely disabled people. Applications from severely disabled persons are expresslyencouraged.

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