Software Engineer for Climate Model Porting

beBee Careers is seeking a Software Engineer for Climate Model Porting in Toronto, ON. The role involves enhancing the Canadian Earth System Model (CanESM) for broader research use, supporting the Collaborative Platform for CanESM project. Responsibilities include porting CanESM to various platforms, developing cloud-based environments, and organizing workshops. Candidates should have a Master's in relevant fields and at least five years of experience in advanced research computing.
About the Role

This position involves supporting the Collaborative Platform for CanESM (CP4C) project, which aims to make software related to the Canadian Earth System Model (CanESM) of Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) usable by a broad research community.

The successful candidate will be responsible for making CanESM more portable and applicable on a range of computing platforms supported by the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (DRAC).

They will be supervised by Dr. Paul Kushner at the University of Toronto and provide technical support to a team of collaborators across Canada.
Key Responsibilities
• Undertaking and maintaining the port and documentation of CanESM to multiple DRAC platforms, including testing, quality assurance, and documentation.
• Developing a cloud-based running and analysis environment under CP4C to ease cross-platform use of CanESM at different institutions.
• Assisting with the setup and testing of new configurations of CanESM and, to a limited extent, support of new scientific applications of CanESM.
• Organizing and running CP4C workshops and tutorials, with assistance of the broader CP4C community, and documenting project status on the CP4C's gitlab website and repository.
About You

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced software engineer with a strong background in physical, mathematical, and computer sciences or an acceptable combination of equivalent experience and education.

A Master's Degree in physical, mathematical, and computer sciences, including climate and atmospheric science, physics, applied mathematics, software engineering is strongly preferred.

The ideal candidate will have a minimum of five years of recent and relevant experience in advanced research computing applications in support of scientific research, including advanced research computer platform experience, porting experience, and the ability to deal with a wide range of programming and scripting languages.