Background
The Climate Dynamics section of the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven, Germany, is accepting applications for a position at the intersection of Climate Science, Software Development, and IT operations, with a focus on performing climate simulations. The role entails performing climate simulation at HPC machines, monitoring their computational and scientific performance, and automation of steps necessary for testing new model versions. Candidates with expertise in either geophysical simulations or DevOps are encouraged to apply.
The successful candidate will work with leading European climate modelers, computing scientists, and software engineers on developing Digital Twins of the climate system to support adaptation to climate change.
Tasks
You will be part of the team responsible for developing, testing, and deploying km-scale climate models. Your task is to contribute to continuous testing and monitoring of the scientific and computational performance of the new model versions by running model integrations of different lengths at different spatial resolutions on EU Tier-1 HPC systems. Depending on the candidate’s profile, the further focus will be either on the scientific evaluation of simulations or on the automation of testing and deployment of models.
Requirements
At least a master’s degree or more than five years of experience in one or more of the following fields is required: software engineering, climate sciences, DevOps, meteorology, oceanography, data science, computer science, mathematics, physics, or related fields. A PhD in any of these fields would be an advantage. Demonstrated experience working with *nix systems and fluency in English are further requirements. We follow good software development practices in our work and expect candidates to have hands-on experience with version control (git), writing tests, and creating documentation.
Moreover, having one or several of the following skills would be a distinct advantage:
- Experience with HPC systems,
- Experience with running geophysical models, especially models of ocean, atmosphere or climate,
- Working with containers (Docker, Singularity/Apptainer),
- Experience with CI/CD,
- Knowledge of Python and bash,
- Working with geophysical data formats (netCDF, GRIB, Zarr).
Further Information
For any questions you may have, you are very welcome to get in touch with Prof. Dr. Thomas Jung (Thomas.Jung@awi.de; +49 15146722091) or Dr. Nikolay Koldunov (Nikolay.Koldunov@awi.de).
This is a full-time position, limited to 24 months, with the possibility of extension. It is also suitable for part-time employment. The salary will be paid in accordance with the Collective Agreement for the Public Service of the Federation (Tarifvertrag des öffentlichen Dienstes, TVöD Bund) up to salary level 13. The place of employment will be Bremerhaven.
The AWI is characterized by
- our scientific success – excellent research
- collaboration and cooperation – intra-institute, national and international, interdisciplinary
- opportunities to develop – on the job and towards other positions
- an international environment – everyday contact with people from all over the world
- flexible working hours and the possibility of mobile working up to 50% of regular working hours
- health promotion and company fitness with EGYM Wellpass
- support services and a culture of reconciling work and family
- occupational pension provision (VBL)
Equal opportunities are an integral part of our personnel policy. The AWI aims to increase the number of employees who are women, and therefore, strongly encourages qualified women to apply.
Applicants with disabilities will be given preference when equal qualifications are present.
The AWI fosters the compatibility of work and family in various ways and has received a number of awards as a result of this engagement.
We look forward to your application!
Please submit your application by April 28th, 2024, exclusively online.
Reference number:Â 24/42/D/Kli-b
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