Vacancy No. 32/2025

Research Software Engineer (f/m/d) for HPC

Job description

The Scientific Computing Center is the Information Technology Center of KIT.

  • Develop sustainable research software in close collaboration with domain researchers
  • Participate in diverse research projects to enhance their software development processes
  • Enable high-performance computing features in existing research software, such as performance optimizations or hardware portability
  • Improve research software running on HPC cluster operated in the state of Baden-Württemberg
  • Build strong communities with domain researchers, as well as national and international research software engineers
  • Take part in the full research cycle including grant application and publishing
Personal qualification

Job requirements:

  • You hold a completed university degree (master's level) in a STEM subject. A completed doctorate is advantageous but not mandatory.
  • Strong knowledge in a programming language relevant to HPC, such as Python, C, C++, or FORTRAN
  • Strong knowledge of good software development practice, such as version control, documentation, CI/CD etc.
  • Experience with developing for heterogeneous and distributed systems and their relevant technologies, such as MPI, OpenMP, CUDA, ROCm, or SYCL
  • Experience using Linux-based HPC clusters
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Ability to work in teams and communicate progress

Curious about an exciting and versatile role in an agile team? Discover more about SCC as your professional place to be: https://www.scc.kit.edu/en/aboutus/working-at-scc.php

Organizational unit

Scientific Computing Center (SCC)

Starting date

01.04.2025

Salary

Salary category 13 TV-L, depending on the fulfillment of professional and personal requirements.

Contract duration

2 years

Application up to

24.02.2025

Contact person in line-management

For further information, please contact Ms. Jasmin Hörter, (jasmin.hoerter@kit.edu).

Application

Please apply online using the button below for this vacancy number 32/2025 .
Personnel Support is provided by 

Mr Meschar
phone: +49 721 608-25029,

Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany

We prefer to balance the number of employees (f/m/d). Therefore we kindly ask female applicants to apply for this job.
Recognized severely disabled persons will be preferred if they are equally qualified.