The IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center provides Czech and foreign research teams from academia and industry with state-of-the-art technologies and services in the field of high-performance computing, numerical simulations, data analysis, artificial intelligence, advanced visualizations and virtual reality. We currently operate EuroHPC petascale supercomputer Karolina and other HPC systems. Further, we are a hosting entity for one of the six EuroHPC quantum computers. With our partners from the IQM company we are in process of deploying unique European quantum computer. The quantum computer qubits are based on superconducting technology and interconnected in star-shape topology. The quantum computer will be operational in the period 2025–2029 and will serve researchers from Czech and international scientific community. The IT4Innovations is also a research center with five research laboratories and strong international links, employing more than 150 scientific and administrative staff. 

We seek candidates for the position

Research Assistant for Infrastructure research Laboratory                         

                              

Activity description:                

  • research and development of methods for acceleration of parallel applications in the High Performance Computing (HPC) environment,     
  • work in the international team focused on development and optimization of parallel codes under national and international projects,             
  • collaboration with application developers and domain experts on highly scalable parallel applications with focus on:              

    – development and implementation of parallel aplications,  

    – GPU acceleration of applications,        

    – application optimization (improving scalability, vectorization, implementation of hybrid parallelization using MPI+OpenMP),           

    – application porting to modern hardware architectures,        

  • compilation of parallel applications and libraries from source code for HPC clusters,            
  • collaboration on publication activities of research outcomes. 

                              

Full time equivalent: 0,5 - 1,0

Type of job contract: fixed-term employment

Expected start of employment: as agreed

                              

We require:                    

  • university education in IT or a related field, min. required degree Bc. at the time of recruitment,     
  • practice min. 1 year,                
  • experience with Linux operating systems and work in bash or Python,
  • experience with HPC applications including their installation, configuration and execution is an advantage,    
  • knowledge of application development in C/C++, knowledge of the Fortran language is an advantage,     
  • knowledge of parallel application development using either      

                 · MPI and OpenMP, or            

                 · CUDA, the advantage is OpenCL, OpenACC, or OpenMP for accelerators, is an advantage            

  • active knowledge of the English language.             

                              

Candidate advantage: experience with scientific computing applications.                          

                              

We offer:                         

  • work in a promising organization,  
  • salary evaluation according project conditions and candidate's experience, 
  • modern laboratory and classroom facilities,         
  • opportunity to participate in excellent research team,   
  • possibility of further education,      
  • 6 weeks of holidays,
  • flexible working hours,          
  • university kindergarten,                                                                                                                           
  • contribution option to pension plan,                                                                                                                   
  • company catering in the canteen,        
  • MultiSport card,         
  • other employee benefits according to the employer's offer.       

                         

The application form substantiated with a letter of motivation and CV should be sent electronically to the email address: petra.brozova@vsb.cz until 1. 7. 2025 (continously open position). In the subject of the email, please state "Open Call for the position of Research Assistant for Infrastructure Research Laboratory".                               

Your personal data will be processed to the extent necessary for the implementation of the selection procedure in accordance with EU Regulation 2016/679.