Climate & Weather HPC Specialist for High-Res Modelling

A*STAR - Agency for Science, Technology and Research; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A*STAR - Agency for Science, Technology and Research in Singapore is seeking a Climate Domain Specialist to provide HPC expertise supporting climate and weather simulations. The role involves advising users, optimising workloads, and developing software best practices for high-performance computing applications. Ideal candidates should have a Master's degree, preferably with 3+ years of relevant experience, and solid programming skills in C/C++, Python, or Fortran. This is a unique opportunity to impact national climate resilience initiatives.

Qualifications

• Ideally, 3 years of experience in climate or weather simulations.
• Experience in building climate/weather applications from source code.
• Good knowledge in climate/weather application performance optimisation and troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Provide HPC and scientific domain advice to users of NSCC systems.
• Support and optimise large-scale climate/weather application workloads.
• Develop HPC utilities and automated testing tools for NSCC HPC systems.

Skills

HPC and scientific domain advice

Climate/weather application performance optimization

Programming skills in C/C++, Python, Fortran

Team player with problem-solving skills

Effective communication skills

Education

Master degree in engineering, computer science, or relevant areas

Tools

HPC job schedulers

OpenMP & MPI

Climate/weather applications (UM, WRF)

Linux and scripting languages

HPC profiler and debugger tools

HPC storage (GPFS, Lustre)

Job description

A*STAR - Agency for Science, Technology and Research in Singapore is seeking a Climate Domain Specialist to provide HPC expertise supporting climate and weather simulations. The role involves advising users, optimising workloads, and developing software best practices for high-performance computing applications. Ideal candidates should have a Master's degree, preferably with 3+ years of relevant experience, and solid programming skills in C/C++, Python, or Fortran. This is a unique opportunity to impact national climate resilience initiatives.