HPC Optimisation Scientist for Climate and Weather Apps

Met Office; Devon and Torbay; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 59,000; Full time

Job summary

The Met Office is seeking an exceptional HPC Optimisation Scientific Software Engineer to join our team in the UK. The role offers hybrid working where you split time between the office and home, with a contract for full-time 37 hours per week.

We aim to align working patterns to suit everyone while delivering world-class climate and weather modelling. You will contribute to developing, supporting and optimising large-scale parallel climate and weather applications on HPC systems, as we push

Qualifications

• Lead criteria: Demonstrate knowledge and experience of HPC software development delivering new capabilities for distributed and/or shared-memory scientific applications.
• Engage effectively with stakeholders to understand requirements and wider context; help develop plans.
• Proactively apply QA processes, best practices, standards and regulations to all work.
• Communicate knowledge clearly to diverse audiences; build trust and credibility.
• Proactively develop skills and support others to improve outcomes and growth.

Responsibilities

• Analyse and optimise the performance of large-scale scientific applications.
• Benchmark scientific applications on current and future supercomputer hardware.
• Support analysis and tuning of operational scientific workloads on the supercomputer.
• Assist users in diagnosing and resolving HPC performance issues.
• Develop novel software, tools and methods to improve performance, scalability and portability of HPC apps.
• Collaborate with scientific and technical colleagues to improve HPC applications.
• Maintain and share expertise in optimisation tools, parallel programming techniques and algorithms.

Skills

HPC software development

Distributed and shared-memory HPC

Stakeholder engagement

Quality Assurance

Team development

Job description

The Met Office is seeking an exceptional HPC Optimisation Scientific Software Engineer to join our team in the UK. The role offers hybrid working where you split time between the office and home, with a contract for full-time 37 hours per week.

We aim to align working patterns to suit everyone while delivering world-class climate and weather modelling. You will contribute to developing, supporting and optimising large-scale parallel climate and weather applications on HPC systems, as we push