Successful candidates will have opportunities to help develop leading-edge climate models on emerging software and hardware technologies within the High-Performance and High Productivity Computing Initiative (www.hp2c.ch), and to work in close collaboration with researchers in Switzerland and world-wide.
The areas of focus of this position will be:
- Software re-engineering of large-scale climate models, in particular components addressing atmospheric dynamics and physical parameterizations.
- Reformulation of algorithms to exploit existing optimized numerical libraries
- Optimization schemes for parallel file systems using high-level I/O libraries

A successful candidate will be involved in contributing to several focus areas of the HP2C project. The main duties will include (but are not limited to):
- Code development, porting, evaluation and debugging for HP2C advanced development systems
- Sharing expert information and providing guidance to the HP2C project teams
- Publishing papers in high-quality refereed conferences and journals
- Actively collaborating with Atmospheric Science Research Institutes (e.g. MeteoSwiss, ETH Zurich) and HP2C applications development teams
The candidate should meet the following requirements:
- At least four (4) years of experience in Atmospheric Modeling
- A doctoral degree in Atmospheric or Climate Science, or Applied Mathematics
- Background in High Performance Computing
- Substantial code development experience in Fortran
- Working knowledge of parallel programming languages and systems
- Fluency (written and oral) in English

For additional information please contact William Sawyer, phone +41 91 610 82 29.