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Job Opportunity: Research Software Engineer

Location: University of Reading
Salary: £34,980 – £44,263 (per annum)
Contract length: Permanent
Contract type: Full time
Closing date: Midnight on Friday 13 September 2024
Interview date: Friday 4 October 2024

Join NCAS-CMS to provide and support HPC services for UK environmental science research and the NCAS Science Strategy.

You will be closely involved in both computational and data science elements with a primary focus on testing and support of numerical modelling systems and related codes on a range of computational platforms that include, but that is not limited to, ARCHER2, JASMIN, UK Met Office, the AI Research Resource (AIRR) platforms, EuroHPC, and a UK Exascale platform.  This is a great opportunity to collaborate and develop relationships with weather and climate scientists, research software engineers, and computational modellers from partner organisations.

You will:

Provide support for the research community
  • Installing underpinning software on current HPC and emerging Exascale systems
  • Porting, optimising and debugging software
  • Resolving specialist user queries
  • Maintaining, developing, and running modelling workflows
  • Represent NCAS-CMS at national and international conferences

Support user services
  • Developing and maintaining data management services
  • Maintaining and developing outward facing software systems

Manage CMS internal infrastructure
  • Improving the CMS web presence, including the development and deployment of container based data services.
  • Working with CMS group members to produce documentation and showcase recent work.

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To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact: 

Grenville Lister, Head of Computational Modelling Services