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At SCC you work in an innovative organisation with an excellent reputation; an organisation in the middle of international technological developments that helps accellerating science. If you wish to set ambitious goals, find freedom and flexibility in your work and continue to develop your personal strengths, then a job at SCC is just the thing for you. We are always happy to receive your application, even if currently no vacancies are listed, a job opening for researchers, administrators, scientific supporters is always around the corner.

Are you interested in working with us? Then send your speculative application to: personal∂scc.kit.edu

Students interested in working as a research assistant or looking for a topic for their master or bachelor thesis are also welcome. Theses can be supervised primarily in computer science or mathematics, but we also have good contacts to other KIT faculties.

SCC

The Scientific Computing Center (SCC) is the Information Technology Centre of KIT. We work in a wide variety of projects with universities, research institutions and companies, both nationally and internationally. Topics range from the analysis of large scale data to data-intensive computing and cloud computing to parallel and numerical methods. We develop and operate innovative IT services as well as large research facilities.

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

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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

 

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Offers for students

Doctoral theses, final theses, master's theses and bachelor's theses

  1. The Data Analytics, Access and Applications (D3A) department offers master's and bachelor's theses
  2. The Data Exploitation Methods (DEM) department offers graduate and doctoral theses
  3. The research group Methods for Big Data(MBD) offers master theses
  4. The Scientific Computing & Mathematics(SCM) department offers master's and bachelor's theses
  5. The Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) research group offers master's and bachelor's theses

Mentoring program for female STEM students

The new mentoring program Warp4IT "Women as research peers for Information Technology" aims to give female STEM students an insight into the working life of female scientists through project work.
female scientists through project work. Further information: Women's Network

Student assistants wanted

  1. Offers in the department Data Analytics, Access and Applications(D3A)
  2. Offers of the research group Methods for Big Data (MBD)
  3. Offers in the department Networks and Telecommunications
  4. Offers in the department Scientific Computing & Simulation