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.