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At SCC you work in an innovative organisation with an excellent reputation; an organisation in the middle of international technological developments that helps accellerating science. If you wish to set ambitious goals, find freedom and flexibility in your work and continue to develop your personal strengths, then a job at SCC is just the thing for you. We are always happy to receive your application, even if currently no vacancies are listed, a job opening for researchers, administrators, scientific supporters is always around the corner.

Are you interested in working with us? Then send your speculative application to: personal∂scc.kit.edu

Students interested in working as a research assistant or looking for a topic for their master or bachelor thesis are also welcome. Theses can be supervised primarily in computer science or mathematics, but we also have good contacts to other KIT faculties.

SCC

The Scientific Computing Center (SCC) is the Information Technology Centre of KIT. We work in a wide variety of projects with universities, research institutions and companies, both nationally and internationally. Topics range from the analysis of large scale data to data-intensive computing and cloud computing to parallel and numerical methods. We develop and operate innovative IT services as well as large research facilities.

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Jobs at SCC

Research Software Engineer (f/m/d)

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Job description

You will:

  • Support researchers within the Helmholtz Association by providing advice in the areas of research software engineering (RSE) and high-performance computing (HPC)
  • Create your own RSE training courses, extend the existing curriculum and offer them to interested parties from a wide range of scientific domains and career stages
  • Collect knowledge and existing technologies in the field of RSE and bring together people with similar problems and solutions
  • Keep an eye on new trends, techniques, events and opportunities, evaluate them for the software developers of the Helmholtz Association and provide the community with information about them
  • Actively participate in national and international RSE activities such as conferences and workshops, but also in joint position papers and projects

Personal qualification

Job requirements:

  • You have a Master’s degree in the field of mathematics, computer science, natural sciences, engineering or related disciplines
  • You have a sound understand for modern software engineering practices and ideally already experience with research software
  • You have experience as a trainer in the field of RSE and/or HPC or related fields and are eager to expand this knowledge
  • In addition, experience in High-Performance Computing and/or at least with one of the common programming languages and tools (e.g. python, C++, FORTRAN, Go, MPI, OpenMP) is considered a plus
  • A very good level of written and spoken English (at least B2 level) is required. Good German skills are considered a plus
  • ·You bring good communication skills and experience with working in an interdisciplinary team.


 

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Offers for students

Doctoral theses, final theses, master's theses and bachelor's theses

  1. The Data Analytics, Access and Applications (D3A) department offers master's and bachelor's theses
  2. The Data Exploitation Methods (DEM) department offers graduate and doctoral theses
  3. The research group Methods for Big Data(MBD) offers master theses
  4. The Scientific Computing & Mathematics(SCM) department offers master's and bachelor's theses
  5. The Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) research group offers master's and bachelor's theses

Mentoring program for female STEM students

The new mentoring program Warp4IT "Women as research peers for Information Technology" aims to give female STEM students an insight into the working life of female scientists through project work.
female scientists through project work. Further information: Women's Network

Student assistants wanted

  1. Offers in the department Data Analytics, Access and Applications(D3A)
  2. Offers of the research group Methods for Big Data (MBD)
  3. Offers in the department Networks and Telecommunications
  4. Offers in the department Scientific Computing & Simulation