Scientific Programmer

Scientific Programmer

IAP - Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics

Kühlungsborn, Germany

Your Tasks:

The successful candidate will facilitate code collaboration within the Modelling of Atmospheric Processes (MOD) department and, in particular, manage IAP code contributions to the upper atmosphere components of the ICON model in collaboration with partner institutions such as the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ) and German Weather Service (DWD), including GPU porting. They will perform production runs of ICON and provide corresponding debugging and/or performance analysis, document ICON model usage and workflows within MOD, as well as develop and extend in-house climate data processing and visualization software.

Your Qualifications/Experience:

• completed university degree (bachelor’s or higher) in informatics, mathematics, physics, geosciences or a related field with preferably good results;
• strong interest in High Performance Computing on CPUs and GPUs;
• experience with simulations on supercomputers producing large volumes of data;
• proficiency in Fortran, Python, shell scripting, and processing simulation data;
• experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., using GitHub/GitLab);
• experience with Linux command-line environments (including remote systems via SSH) and Windows;
• interest in modern software engineering practices (testing, code review, modular design);
• fluency in English as working language.