HPC Engineering Analyst
Recruiter
UK Atomic Energy Authority
Listed on
13th August 2019
Location
OX14 3DB
Salary/Rate
£33,441 to £37,579 + excellent benefits
Salary Notes
£33,441 to £37,579 + excellent benefits
Type
Permanent
Start Date
ASAP
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HPC Engineering AnalystJob Ref:
3848
Job Title:
HPC Engineering Analyst
Job type:
Permanent Full Time
Location:
Culham, Oxfordshire
Salary:
£33,441 to £37,579 (inclusive of MPP) + excellent benefits including outstanding pension scheme
Closing date:
24th September 2019
The UK Atomic Energy Authority have an excellent opportunity for a High-Performance Computing (HPC) Engineering Analyst to join their team within the Materials Science and Scientific Computing department.
You will help drive UKAEA`s simulation software stack into a new era. You will help the development of world leading engineering simulation software to solve highly coupled problems. You will perform simulations across many diverse HPC systems including our onsite HPC infrastructure, but also scaling the simulations out to national (Catalyst, Dirac, Isambard, Archer) and international HPC resources (BSC, Marconi, JSC).
The simulations performed will help drive our engineering design cycle by the provision of high-fidelity multiscale calculations. You will perform the whole range of CAD pre-processing, meshing, associated simulation and post-processing. You will help develop algorithms that help our engineering simulations scale to the size needed to address highly coupled physics environments.
Key areas of responsibility will include:
- To have a long-term interest in the development of our digital twinning infrastructure, to allow geometry to be pulled from databases, pre-processing to be automatically performed, simulations spawned and queried.
- To be responsible for development, testing, implementation and technical support of key systems and for leading small teams made up of students, interns etc. The post holder will be responsible for managing the full software lifecycle of the projects under their stewardship, including any data management aspects of the work.
- You will be an internationally recognised technical expert and in a number of cases, will be UKAEA`s main or sole representative on international projects.
- You will be confident in negotiating and presenting and will actively seek out opportunities to engage with the wider HPC community (and other disciplines across the physical and life sciences) in order to grow UKAEA`s reputation and bring added value to the UKAEA Fusion programme.
At UKAEA we strive to make everyone feel welcome and fully supported. Our Ambassadors are actively promoting and advancing diversity and inclusion in the organisation to help make our organisation an employer of choice. UKAEA has a graded career structure and our mentoring scheme will enable you to reach your true potential.
The UKAEA hosts and manages the JET nuclear fusion energy experiment on behalf of the EU and is also home to the UK`s MAST-U fusion energy experiment. UKAEA also works with industry and other third parties to develop new technologies currently in Remote Handling and Materials research. Following recent UK funding two new centres of excellence in tritium fuel handling and component testing and validation are being built. The culture at UKAEA promotes research, innovation and leading edge technological excellence, whilst investing in its people.
Knowledge skills and experience
Essential
Relevant scientific/engineering/computing degree or equivalent
An in-depth knowledge and demonstrable extensive experience of both the software and data lifecycles and a detailed working knowledge and experience of at least one high level programming language
A strong and extensive track record (preferably including non-fusion experience, e.g. from having worked in industry or on large-scale projects such as the LHC) of working with networked data infrastructure as part of a large data-centre or big-data enterprise delivering High Throughput Computing and/or HPC solutions.
Experience of high-performance computing
Demonstrated success on large codebase with fusion relevant physics (nuclear, radiation transport, finite element, CFD, etc)
Good team player with excellent communication skills and a demonstrated ability to work to strict deadlines
A detailed working knowledge of a performant compiled language preferably C++ (but C & Fortran will be considered)
Desirable
Experience of database technologies NodeDB, GraphDB, MySQL
Experience of digital twinning
Experience of on demand simulation orchestration
Experience of scientific workflows infrastructures
Experience of a major or leading role in a range of scientific/engineering software projects (preferably in fusion & other science or industry contexts).
Experience of software development in a production environment and all the qualities there of (CI, testing, containerisation, deployment, etc)
Special requirements:
As part of the selection process you may be expected to complete work based simulation exercises and a personality profile either online or onsite.
Notes:
Please be advised that this vacancy may close earlier than stated if large or sufficient numbers of applications are received.
Please note UKAEA do not pay travel expenses for interviews.
The UK Atomic Energy Authority actively promotes equality and values diversity in our workforce. We operate a number of flexible working arrangements (such as part-time working/job share/home working). Flexible working may be available with this role.
