Context And Mission
The Department of Earth Sciences of the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS), BSC-ES henceforth (bsc.es/earth-sciences) is one of the most active groups in atmospheric composition modelling, climate prediction, and climate services in Europe. The department is currently composed of 260 people, including scientists and technical and support staff, and is structured in five distinct but interacting research groups: Atmospheric Composition (AC), Climate Variability and Change (CVC), Earth System Services (ESS), Global Health Resilience (GHR), and Computational Earth Sciences (CES).
BSC-ES is developing different aspects of a digital replica of the Earth for climate adaptation based on global climate models that can perform climate simulations at unprecedented resolutions. The development and use of this model open substantial technical and scientific challenges. Besides, this tool is co-developed with a number of users with a broad range of profiles who will inform about the socio-economic priorities for the adaptation to climate change at regional and local scales.
The Earth-Sciences department is looking for a System Validation Engineer for the Climate Digital Twin (ClimateDT) of the Destination Earth initiative. The candidate will interact with BSC-ES’ research engineers and scientists and with those in other partnering institutions to develop and operate the system-validation framework for ClimateDT, supporting the integration, validation, and continuous evolution of the operational system.
Key Duties
Operate and monitor system testing of the integrated Climate DT system, running Earth System Models (ESMs) with downstream climate applications in several High-Performance Computing environments. Execute system validation activities on operational environments, configurations and software, assess system behaviour and performance, and deliver validation reports documenting test outcomes, observations, and issues identified. Develop, maintain, and improve tools that support testing activities, including test execution, monitoring, reporting, and opportunities for increased automation of validation workflows. Diagnose technical issues identified during testing and support effective feedback loops between testing activities and development teams. Contribute to the development and execution of integration checks for priority interfaces. Contribute to documenting, maintaining, and improving testing procedures, validation workflows, and technical reports.
