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EPCC is the UK’s leading centre for Supercomputing and Data Analytics with an international reputation for excellence in computational science and supercomputing research. EPCC hosts and manages leading-edge systems that includes the UK’s national supercomputing service (ARCHER2). This £79 million service is among the fastest systems in the world. Our collaborators include Rolls Royce and the UK Met Office.
At EPCC we share a passion for innovation using state-of-the-art technologies, a love of solving complex challenges and a desire to impact our academic, public and private sector partners and clients in a meaningful way.
The Exascale era is here and EPCC is involved in a wide variety of HPC research projects, spanning the underlying hardware and systemware required for the Exascale, to the optimisation of applications and the development of completely new applications specifically targeted at (likely heterogeneous) systems with extreme levels of parallelism. The years ahead represent the biggest challenge yet for supercomputing. Join us and you will work at the forefront of computational science and supercomputing research and development.
We are seeking graduates and engineers to work as Applications Consultants on project-oriented research in the area of HPC and supercomputing, in particular around software development, performance optimisation and cross-cutting research. Experience developing numerical applications using C/C++ or Fortran is required, and knowledge of parallel computing is highly desirable.
What you can expect
As a valued member of our team you can expect:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more. Click to access our staff benefits page (opens new browser tab) for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab)
The University is able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. If successful, an international applicant requiring sponsorship to work in the UK will need to satisfy the UK Home Office’s English Language requirements and apply for and secure a Skilled Worker Visa.
