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The High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) is Germany's first national supercomputing centre. It operates one of the fastest supercomputers in the world and offers access to supercomputers for universities and research institutions as well as industrial partners. HLRS also holds a leading position worldwide in the research areas of parallel computing, cloud computing and high-performance data analysis and is significantly involved in international and national research projects.

The Visualisation Department (VIS) of HLRS supports scientists in the visualization of HPC simulations on the desktop, in virtual reality and augmented reality and is looking for up to three 

Research Scientist 
(f/m/d, up to TV-L 13, 100%)
HLRS_06_2025

Employment is limited to various projects in the Visualization Department, until the end of the projects, which is up to four years.

Your tasks:

You will be working as a scientist in an international team on developing and applying VR and AR visualization tools to HPC simulations. In international and national research projects such as SRI-DiTEnS, Meridional, Excellerat2, it will be your task to design and develop digital twins of cities and their visualisations. Interesting topics such as Urban Heat, Greening, Heavy Rain, Noise or Air Pollutants are only a few subjects you will be working on. Others include the visualization of unsteady flow fields around wind turbines and whole wind farms. Your main task will be to help maintain and improve the visualisation tools, COVISE and Vistle, we are developing to make them ready for the exascale era. Presenting your results at different national and international conferences, events, workshops and in publications will be part of the job as well. 

Qualifications:

• A university degree, ideally in the area of engineering, natural sciences, mathematics or computer science
• Good programming skills in at least one object-oriented programming language (C/C++)
• Strong focus on creativity, proactivity, conceptual thinking and continuous improvement including the ability to work under own initiative
• Willingness to familiarise yourself with  new technology and incorporating them in interesting projects
• Excellent language skills in English

Ideally, your profile will be supplemented by:

• Initial experience or highly interested in one of the following fields: 
  • VR and AR
  • Human-Computer Interface
  • Parallel Programming (MPI, OpenMP) and optimization of parallel efficiency
  • GPU Programming
  • Front- and backend web development
• Experience in Linux-based environments
• At least basic knowledge of the German language

Benefits:

• A professional working environment in a friendly, highly motivated and collaborative international team
• Flexible working hours with flexitime model and the possibility of compensating for time off in addition to the regular 30 days of vacation
• Flexible work hours with currently up to 60% home office
• Attractive social benefits of the public service
• Subsidy of €25 per month for public transport and the possibility of job bike leasing
• Use of the wide range of further education and training opportunities (e.g. soft skills, languages, specialist courses, leadership seminars) and the sports offers of the University of Stuttgart
• A fixed-term employment with salary and the working conditions up to TV-L13

Do you have any further questions? Then please send an e-mail to: uwe.woessner(at)hlrs.de

Your application:

Please send us your application including motivation letter, resume, certificates and references, stating the reference number of the position “HLRS_06_2025” in the subject line, preferred by e-mail to: bewerbungen(at)hlrs.de, no later than  February, 19th 2025 as a single pdf file.
 
In an effort to strengthen the presence of female workers in the scientific areas, the University of Stuttgart invites women to apply for this job opening. Full-time positions may in general be turned into part-time positions. Disabled people will have priority as long as equally qualified. The recruitment process will be handled by the central administration of the University of Stuttgart.

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