Job Category: Fulltime Term
Exempt Overtime Eligible: Exempt
Benefits Eligible: Benefit Based

Caltech is a world-renowned science and engineering institute that marshals some of the world's brightest minds and most innovative tools to address fundamental scientific questions. We thrive on finding and cultivating talented people who are passionate about what they do. Join us and be a part of the diverse Caltech community.

Job Summary

We are seeking a Software Engineer to develop, implement, and integrate components of the first Earth system model (ESM) that learns automatically from Earth observations and targeted high-resolution simulations of clouds, turbulence, and other elements of the Earth system. As a Climate Modeling Alliance (CliMA) Software Engineer at Caltech, you will work in a dynamic, multidisciplinary team of curious and creative scientists, engineers, and applied mathematicians, spanning the CliMA partner institutions.

Essential Job Duties
You will:

• Work on an ambitious, high-profile scientific project with an opportunity to impact the climate sciences worldwide.
• Analyze problems, formulate mathematical models, and implement software solutions at the interface of computational science, applied mathematics, fluid dynamics, and Earth system science.
• Apply your expertise in computational science to design and develop innovative high-performance software suitable for the next generation of supercomputing hardware with heterogeneous manycore architectures.
• Develop and implement innovative software solutions to climate modeling problems that represent the state-of-the-art in high-performance computing and are performant on GPUs.
• Contribute to the design, performance specification, and development of an integrated open-source software system using modern languages and development techniques to ensure code health, scalability, and robustness.
• Manage and coordinate software projects involving scientists, applied mathematicians, and engineers.
• Work in a friendly and diverse environment, collaborating closely with researchers in climate science, machine learning, and applied mathematics.

Basic Qualifications

• Completed a BS degree or equivalent degree in a quantitative field such as computer science, applied mathematics, physics, engineering, or Earth science.
• Experience with at least two programming languages (e.g., C, C++, C#, Fortran, Python, Julia, Rust).
• Experience developing large software projects in a distributed fashion, e.g., contributing to an open source project with distributed contributors.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with the Julia language, including package development and performance optimization.
• Experience working with high-performance computing systems, including multicore processors, GPUs, or other accelerators.
• Demonstrated expertise in numerical methods for partial differential equations and/or computational fluid dynamics, through coursework and/or research experience.
• Experience working in multi-disciplinary teams and interacting cross-functionally with a wide variety of people.

Required Documents

• Curriculum Vitae

To be considered for this position please visit our web site and apply on line at the following link: https://hr.caltech.edu/work/job_openings

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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