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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

Scientist (f/m/d)
- Scientific software development and user support in the field of materials research-

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Job description

The Scientific Computing Center is the Information Technology Center of KIT.

You will be involved in research software engineering (RSE) in the context of high-performance computing in the field of materials research. An important focus of your work is the development of domain-specific languages and supporting tools as interfaces to improve the usability of the codes, models, and data, as well as the productivity of end users, the reusability of code and data, and thus to avoid unnecessary calculations.

You will conduct methodological research and actively participate in the planning, implementation, and testing of new features, as well as in bug fixes. Another task is the continuous maintenance of software repositories and databases. You will publish the results of your methodological research at conferences and in seminars. Furthermore, you will support users in the use of the newly developed tools in their projects and occasionally organize tutorials for them.

Personal qualification

Job requirements:

  • Degree in computer (Masterlevel) science, mathematics, physics, or another STEM subject
  • A PhD degree in a STEM subject is an advantage
  • Strong programming skills in Python
  • Strong knowledge of software development, ideally with experience in a scientific-technical environment
  • Knowledge and experience with Git, Gitlab, and/or Github; experience with continuous integration is an advantage
  • Basic knowledge of high-performance computing
  • Very good English language skills
  • Linux, database knowledge (MongoDB), and other programming language skills (such as C++, Fortran) are an advantage
  • Interest in working on an interdisciplinary project with scientific and technical challenges, as well as solving the tasks in the project independently or together with an interdisciplinary team in a short period of time
  • Experience in dealing with cooperation partners and customers is an advantage

Curious about an exciting and versatile role in an agile team? Discover more about SCC as your professional place to be: https://www.scc.kit.edu/en/aboutus/working-at-scc.php

 

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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