HPC Optimisation Foundation Engineer: Climate Modelling

Met Office; Devon and Torbay; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Civil Service pension

Market supplement £2,000 p.a. (RRA)

Annual leave 27.5–32.5 days

Job summary

The Met Office is seeking an exceptional HPC Optimisation Foundation Scientific Software Engineer to help us make a difference to our planet. This full-time role (37 hours per week) offers hybrid working with a strong emphasis on development and collaboration across teams.

You will contribute to large-scale climate and weather applications on HPC systems and help push our Next Generation Modelling Systems and data science capabilities.

Qualifications

• Demonstrate insight in software development and computational performance for scientific applications.
• Engage with stakeholders to understand requirements and context.
• Apply QA practices, standards and regulations in work.
• Communicate knowledge with diverse audiences.
• Develop skills and support others’ development within the team.

Responsibilities

• Analyse and optimise the performance of scientific applications.
• Benchmark scientific applications on current and future supercomputer hardware.
• Develop software, tools and methods to improve performance and portability of large-scale HPC apps.
• Collaborate with scientific and technical colleagues to improve HPC applications.
• Learn and share knowledge of optimisation tools, parallel programming techniques and HPC capabilities.

Skills

Computational performance

Stakeholder engagement

Quality Assurance

Effective communication

Skill development & mentoring

Job description

The Met Office is seeking an exceptional HPC Optimisation Foundation Scientific Software Engineer to help us make a difference to our planet. This full-time role (37 hours per week) offers hybrid working with a strong emphasis on development and collaboration across teams.

You will contribute to large-scale climate and weather applications on HPC systems and help push our Next Generation Modelling Systems and data science capabilities.