HPC Domain Specialist (Climate/Weather), Frontier, NSCC
Core
HPC Domain Specialist partnering with climate/weather experts to translate scientific goals into high-performance simulations on supercomputers for national climate resilience.
Role type
Senior IC HPC domain specialist (climate/weather)
Builds
High-resolution climate/weather models and simulations
Domain
Climate science / Weather forecasting / Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Large-scale numerical simulation, HPC performance optimization, Scientific modelling from source code, Profiling and troubleshooting, Linux, C/C++/Python/Fortran, OpenMP & MPI, HPC job schedulers, Container technologies, HPC storage (GPFS/Lustre)
Preferred skills
Climate/weather simulation (ICON, LFRic, MPAS, NEMO, WRFA), AI-driven weather modelling (FourCastNet, AIFS, Anemoi, Earth-2, StormCast, GraphCast, Pangu-Weather), CFD (OpenFOAM, Neko, SU2), HPC development tool chains
Responsibilities
Provide HPC and scientific domain advice to users, Engage and collaborate with new researchers, Support and optimize large-scale scientific workloads, Work with HPC performance engineers to profile applications, Design and implement HPC software best practices, Assist in planning and design of future HPC systems, Develop HPC utilities and automated testing tools, Develop HPC user and best practice guides
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
