Senior HPC Optimisation Engineer - Climate Modeling

Met Office; Exeter; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Civil Service pension

Market supplement (RRA)

Annual leave up to 32.5 days

Hybrid working

Job summary

Met Office is seeking an HPC Optimisation Senior Scientific Software Engineer to join a hybrid-work team. You will optimise large-scale climate/weather applications on HPC systems, contribute to Next Generation Modelling and data science adoption, and drive performance improvements across multiple platforms.

The role offers development opportunities, collaboration across international teams, and a Civil Service pension, with a market supplement and generous annual leave.

Qualifications

• Lead in HPC code optimisation to boost performance of large-scale scientific apps.
• Engage with internal/external stakeholders to understand requirements and plan accordingly.
• Promote QA practices, standards and regulations in the team.
• Communicate knowledge clearly, adapting for diverse audiences.
• Mentor colleagues and share knowledge to improve outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Analyse and optimise performance of complex scientific apps.
• Design benchmarks to assess performance on current/future HPC systems.
• Tune performance of operational workloads with workload teams.
• Diagnose and resolve complex performance issues and guide users.
• Develop tools to improve performance, scalability and portability on HPC architectures.
• Collaborate with scientific/technical colleagues to improve HPC apps.
• Maintain and share expertise in optimisation tools, parallel programming and architectures.

Skills

HPC Code Optimisation

Stakeholder Engagement

Quality Assurance

Communication

Mentoring/Knowledge Sharing

Job description

Met Office is seeking an HPC Optimisation Senior Scientific Software Engineer to join a hybrid-work team. You will optimise large-scale climate/weather applications on HPC systems, contribute to Next Generation Modelling and data science adoption, and drive performance improvements across multiple platforms.

The role offers development opportunities, collaboration across international teams, and a Civil Service pension, with a market supplement and generous annual leave.