Post-Doc / interface between regional climate modeling and HPC

The areas of focus of this position will be: - Software re-engineering of a climate model, in particular components addressing atmospheric dynamics and physical parameterizations - Reformulation of model physics in line with the planned rewriting of the dynamical core to exploit existing optimized numerical libraries - Explore possibilities of using CPU-GPU-type architecture for speeding up certain specific portions of the code. A successful candidate will contribute to several focus areas of the HP2C project, including (but not limited to): - Code development & rewriting, porting, evaluation and debugging of the model - Sharing expert information and providing guidance to other teams involved in the project through the development of an active collaboration between atmospheric sciences teams (e.g. MeteoSwiss, ETH Zurich, C2SM) and HPC application development teams - Publishing papers in high quality refereed conferences and journals.

The candidate should meet the following requirements: - At least four years of experience in atmospheric modeling, computational fluid dynamics or high performance computing - A doctoral degree in Atmospheric or Climate Science, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science or a related field - Background in High Performance Computing - Substantial code development experience in Fortran and/or C/C++ - Working knowledge of parallel programming languages and systems - Fluency (written and oral) in English