Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) – The Research University in the Helmholtz Association creates and imparts knowledge for the society and the environment. It is our goal to make significant contributions to mastering the global challenges of mankind in the fields of energy, mobility, and information. For this, more than 9.000 employees of KIT cooperate in a broad range of disciplines in research, academic education, and innovation. We are looking for the Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC) as of 1st June 2022 limited for 2 years for a

Scientific Software Consultant (f/m/d)

Focus on Supercomputing / two jobs to fill

Working with scientific applications is your daily business? You like to share your knowledge, solve problems and are fascinated by supercomputers? Then you might be the person we are looking for! The Scientific Computing and Simulation Department of the Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC) at KIT operates large-scale facilities for scientific High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Data-Intensive Sciences, including the recently inaugurated "High Performance Computer Karlsruhe" (HoreKa), one of the fastest computers in Europe. In November 2020, the SCC was selected as a center for National High-Performance Computing (NHR). To strengthen our software team, we are looking for a Scientific Software Consultant (f/m/d) as soon as possible:

• You provide optimized versions of scientific and technical applications and libraries to the users on our High-Performance Computers within the National High Performance Computing (NHR@KIT) and the Baden-Württemberg High-Performance Computing (bwHPC) projects, and advise researchers on their efficient use.
• You manage license quotas of commercial software, ensure that they are used as needed, and take care of further licensing.
• You ensure that problems are solved quickly and competently in close coordination with users and other experts.
• You prepare teaching materials and documentation and participate in workshops and training courses.
• You support the review process for scientific computing time allotments on the HPC systems and contribute to the further development of processes and services for user support.

Personal qualification

• You have a university degree (Master) in the Natural Sciences, Engineering, the Computational Sciences, Computer Science or Mathematics.
• Existing experience with the use, installation, and management of common software from various scientific disciplines on parallel high-performance computers is highly advantageous.
• You have basic knowledge of Linux operating systems and ideally software license managers. Existing hands-on experience with Linux server system administration, shell scripting of workflows, and version control is desired.
• You have basic knowledge and experience with programming languages and advanced paradigms.
• You bring good English and basic German language skills.
• Overall, you convince with a high degree of initiative, result orientation and teamwork.

The SCC offers you an exciting and varied job within an agile team as well as a wide range of training opportunities and flexible and family-friendly working time models. We offer you an attractive and modern workplace with access to the excellent equipment of the KIT, a varied work, a wide range of training opportunities, flexible working time models and a casino/cafeteria. 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. Please apply online until 16.05.2022 using the vacancy number 286/2022 and the reference number 6 to Mr Dominik Meschar, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Human Resources, Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany. For further information, please contact Dr. Robert Barthel, phone +49 721 608-48691, email: robert.barthel@kit.edu. For more information about SCC as your new work home, please visit https://www.scc.kit.edu/ueberuns/arbeiten-am-scc.php Processing of your personal data by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) will be subject to this Privacy Policy.

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