The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) is a multidisciplinary center for climate and Earth system research located in Hamburg, Germany. It is one of the premier climate science research institutes in the world. Located in the heart of one of Europe’s most livable and vibrant cities, it provides a highly international and interdisciplinary environment to conduct scientific research as well as access to state-of-the-art scientific facilities. You can also have a virtual tour to our campus.
THE POSITION
Understanding climate and its change is one of mankind’s most important challenges. The advent of exascale computing in the near future promises new exciting insights from storm-resolving climate modeling on the global scale. The pace at which data are generated by such scientific experiments and large simulations poses new challenges in terms of the capability of efficiently and effectively analyzing the massive datasets generated. Improving the knowledge retrieval process from such analysis reveals many demanding tasks for all its components.
The Scientific Computing Laboratory (SCLab) at MPI-M is offering a three-year position as a
Research Software Engineer (W-0016 | all genders)
Do you like to build robust and performant systems? You are not afraid of handling large amounts of data and you don't shy away from touching individual bytes in a memory buffer? Then we are looking for you to join our team developing a modern data system for climate output data on high-performance computers. This includes a big data streaming framework to efficiently store and retrieve, organize, and process extreme volume climate data.
The position is part of the WarmWorld “Easier” project, which develops novel methods to make climate information visible, accessible, and interoperable.
YOUR TASKS
As part of our team, apply your excellent software engineering skills in building I/O and post-processing middleware and specialized databases connected by data streams. Apply your creativity to develop an application robustly solving the problems of seamless transition between storage backends and data centers accounting for the special environment of multi user HPCs. Improve the scalability of the system while ensuring consistency. Join us in providing an integrated experimentation and data system helping not only our climate researchers but also other users in their daily work by helping them to manage their data in an efficient way.
YOUR PROFILE
OUR OFFER
EMPLOYEEMENT CONDITIONS
The project position is for a period of three years and is limited until February 28, 2027.
Candidates will be evaluated based on their qualifications and ability to fulfill the responsibilities as outlined for this project. Payment will be in accordance with German public service positions of E 13 to E 14 TVöD, including extensive social security plans. The conditions of employment, including upgrades and duration, follow the rules of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Sciences and those of the German civil service. The position can be filled part-time in principle.
The Max Planck Society is committed to increasing the number of individuals with disabilities in its workforce and therefore encourages applications from such qualified individuals. The Max Planck Society strives to ensure gender equality and diversity and, furthermore, seeks to increase the number of women in those areas where they are underrepresented and therefore explicitly encourages women to apply.
INTERESTED?
We are looking forward to receiving your application! All applications received prior to December 15, 2023, will be given full consideration.
CONTACT
For further information, please contact Dr. Tobias Koelling.
Please do not forward your application to this e-mail address. The application documents (PDF only) need to be submitted through the online application system.
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