Software Engineer in HPC Performance

Software Engineer in HPC Performance

Salary: Band E (Stem 1) £56,509 - £62,159 gross per annum (dependent on skills and experience)
Hours: Full time (We understand the importance of work-life balance, and are happy to discuss the possibility of flexible working with applicants)
Contract Type: Open-ended
Location: Science and Technology Facilities Council- Daresbury, Oxfordshire or Edinburgh

About the Hartree Centre
At the Hartree Centre, we want to see UK businesses outperforming their global competitors. We want to grow the economy, create skilled jobs and train people to excel in them. Most of all, we want to keep the UK at the forefront of industrial innovation. We're making all this happen and more by enabling UK industry to fully embrace and integrate the latest digital and cognitive technologies.

We provide collaborative research, innovation and development services that accelerate the application of high-performance computing (HPC), data analytics and artificial intelligence technologies. By working with us, businesses and research partners can gain a competitive advantage that enables them to produce better outcomes, products and services more quickly and cheaply than through conventional R&D.

Key Responsibilities

• Building computational models of components, products and processes.
• Support our partners integrate hierarchical and multilevel modelling approaches that enable efficient integration of novel methods in their applications.
• Working with Business Development on project scoping, in particular, identifying appropriate objectives to address client challenges, and feasibility assessment of technologies required to meet objectives and support our business development managers with technical pre-sales.
• Learn and apply HPC, data centric, analytics and AI technologies to enable our customers to tackle new challenges.
• Look at validation of conclusions, and presentation of results to customers (including advanced visualisation).
• Contributing and writing project applications for funding from national and international competitions.
• Project management across a range of project sizes and types, typically involving members from multiple groups within Hartree (including Research Software Engineering, HPC, Artificial Intelligence and Data Science).
• Make site visits to commercial and academic partners.
• Publish non-confidential results.

Person Specification
(Please note the below criteria will be assessed at Shortlisting or Interview stage as indicated)

• Degree in applied mathematics, computing or engineering subject area with a strong mathematics component. (S&I)
• A PhD or equivalent professional experience in at least two areas with relevance to extreme-scale computing, mathematics, Computational Science and engineering. (S&I)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. (S&I)
• Experience using modelling and simulation to give insight into the behaviour of physical systems, including building large and complex modelling software with dependencies (S&I)
• Knowledge of HPC: performance profiling and development of parallel software (both shared- and distributed-memory) with a compiled language such as C/C++ or Fortran. (S&I)
• Can work as part of a team and independently. (I)
• Able to work with a range of clients and have an interest in technical pre-scales. (I)
• Experience in at least one of the following: Large scale, distributed-memory algorithms; Heterogenous/accelerated computing. (S&I)
• Strong leadership skills with previous experience and ability to lead, motivate and develop others. (S&I)

How to apply

Online applications only preferred for this role. Please submit a CV and covering letter which clearly outlines how you fulfil the criteria specified along with your motivation for UKRI and the role. Ensure that the job reference number is included in the filename description of each document uploaded. Note that failure to address the above criteria or submit an application without a covering letter may result in the application not being considered. Assessment will only be based upon the content of your submitted covering letter and CV and not the ‘experience’ section of the application.