Overview
Job reference 537_25_ES_EDD_RE2
Position Software engineer for climate and health (RE2)
Closing date Thursday, 29 January, 2026
Job title Software engineer for climate and health (RE2)
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 PRACE, and is now hosting entity for EuroHPC JU. The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies to facilitate scientific progress. BSC combines HPC service provision and R&D into computer and computational science and currently has over 1000 staff from 60 countries.
Context and mission
The BSC Earth Sciences Department (ES) is looking for a software engineer to consolidate and further develop the existing software environment for the Global Health and Resilience Group’s portfolio of climate, health and digital technology projects. The software engineer will be a member of the Data and Diagnostics Team (DDT), which provides support and has developed a suite of R packages and dashboards used by scientists to perform their analysis and verify simulations over observations and reanalysis, from sub-seasonal to decadal time scales, from data loading to diagnostics computation and visualization.
The successful applicant will join the team to contribute to the development and computational optimization of R packages, dashboards and user interfaces linking climate and health data in decision-support models, in collaboration with the Global Health Resilience (GHR) group, led by ICREA Professor Rachel Lowe. The mission of the GHR group is to co-design policy-relevant methodological solutions to enhance surveillance, preparedness and response to climate-sensitive disease outbreaks. In collaboration with stakeholders and R tool users, the applicant will participate in projects with partners across the globe to develop and optimize R data and modelling analysis functions, packages and dashboards for user needs. These data, modelling and visualization tools will be developed within a High Performance Computing environment. The applicant will also contribute to the strategy for development of Earth Sciences Department tools to increase applicability, visibility and impact of research and services.
Key duties
* Support on software development, system administration and climate-health related tools configuration and optimization.
* Design, develop, and deploy applications and micro-services for data integration, process automation, and infrastructure optimization (Docker, Podman...).
* Co-development and optimization of R packages for climate and health projects.
* Contribute to the development of training materials for capacity strengthening workshops. Present and document technical progress to technical and non-technical audiences.
* Liaise between internal and external groups across multiple research sites in-country and internationally.
Requirements
Education
* A Masters in Computer Science, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics or related discipline
Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
* Prior experience in a software development or software engineer position
* Excellent skills in R, Python and/or other interpreted languages
* Experience with UNIX/LINUX environments and scripting languages (bash, etc)
* Good programming skills to manage big and collaborative projects and experience with git (gitlab, github)
* Interest in climate change and global health challenges
Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
* Knowledge of health related data types will be valued
* Knowledge of geospatial data formats (GRIB, NetCDF, etc...)
* Previous experience in HPC architecture and parallel programming (multi-threaded applications) will be valued
Competences
* Capacity to interact and build strong relations with researchers, engineers, and users.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
* Ability to show initiative, prioritise tasks and work under set deadlines.
* Ability to work both independently and within a team.
* Ability to learn and adapt to multiple programming languages easily.
* Fluency in English, both speaking and writing
Conditions
* The position will be located at BSC within the Earth Sciences Department
* We offer a full-time contract (37.5h/week), a good working environment, flexible working hours, extensive training plan, restaurant tickets, private health insurance, support to relocation procedures
* Duration: Open-ended contract due to project and budget duration
* Holidays: 22 days + 6 personal days + 24th and 31st of December
* Salary: competitive salary commensurate with qualifications and experience
* Starting date: as soon as possible
Diversity and recruitment
BSC-CNS is committed to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and is an equal opportunity employer. We promote diversity of experiences and skills and encourage applicants from underrepresented groups. We follow Open, Transparent and Merit-based Recruitment (OTM-R) principles, and aim to balance recruitment panels by gender and background.
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