LLVM Software Engineer - DARE (RE1-2)

Job Reference

932_24_CS_CTHPC_RE2

Position

LLVM Software Engineer - DARE (RE1-2)

Data de tancament

Dimecres, 15 Gener, 2025
Reference: 932_24_CS_CTHPC_RE2
Job title: LLVM Software Engineer - DARE (RE1-2)

About BSC

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain. It houses MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, was a founding and hosting member of the former European HPC infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), and is now hosting entity for EuroHPC JU, the Joint Undertaking that leads large-scale investments and HPC provision in Europe. The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. BSC combines HPC service provision and R&D into both computer and computational science (life, earth and engineering sciences) under one roof, and currently has over 1000 staff from 60 countries.

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Context And Mission

The Computer Sciences (CS) department of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center is participating in different projects around the RISC-V ecosystem and HPC. One of them is the DARE project. We are looking for a software engineer that wants to push forward this ecosystem in the context of vector code generation and other features that can speed-up typical HPC applications when running on RISC-V.

Key Duties

  • Work in the LLVM middle end to ultimately improve code generation for RISC-V Vector Extension.
  • Work in OpenMP transformations with the goal to enable them on RISC-V Vector Extension.

Requirements

  • Education
    • Bachelor or Master degree in Computer Science.
  • Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
    • Good skills in C++.
    • Experience in compiler development.
    • Knowledge of LLVM and Clang codebases
  • Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
    • Good knowledge of Linux low level interfaces would be a plus.
    • Knowledge of HPC architectures and systems would be a plus.
  • Competences
    • Have good communication and interpersonal skills to be able to work within a team to complete tasks on schedule.
    • Show a problem-solving, can-do, pro-active and result-oriented attitude.
    • Be keen to deliver good quality code and follow good practices in the industry.
    • Be curious and willing to learn about LLVM, RISC-V and HPC.

Conditions

  • The position will be located at BSC within the Computer Sciences Department
  • We offer a full-time contract (37.5h/week), a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art infrastructure, flexible working hours, extensive training plan, restaurant tickets, private health insurance, support to the relocation procedures
  • Duration: Open-ended contract due to technical and scientific activities linked to the project and budget duration
  • Holidays: 23 paid vacation days plus 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement
  • Salary: we offer a competitive salary commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the candidate and according to the cost of living in Barcelona
  • Starting date: February 2025

Applications procedure and process

All applications must be made through BSC website and contain:

  • A full CV in English including contact details
  • A Cover Letter with a statement of interest in English, including two contacts for further references - Applications without this document will not be considered

    In accordance with the OTM-R principles, a gender-balanced recruitment panel is formed for every vacancy at the beginning of the process. After reviewing the content of the applications, the panel will start the interviews, with at least one technical and one administrative interview. A profile questionnaire as well as a technical exercise may be required during the process.

    The panel will make a final decision and all candidates who had contacts with them will receive a feedback with details on the acceptance or rejection of their profile.

    At BSC we are seeking continuous improvement in our recruitment processes, for any suggestions or feedback/complaints about our Recruitment Processes, please contact recruitment [at] bsc [dot] es.

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  • Deadline

    The vacancy will remain open until a suitable candidate has been hired. Applications will be regularly reviewed and potential candidates will be contacted.

    OTM-R principles for selection processes

    BSC-CNS is committed to the principles of the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers of the European Commission and the Open, Transparent and Merit-based Recruitment principles (OTM-R). This is applied for any potential candidate in all our processes, for example by creating gender-balanced recruitment panels and recognizing career breaks etc.
    BSC-CNS is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or any other basis protected by applicable state or local law.
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