Computational Scientist in Fluid Structure Interaction/HPC/CFD
Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, Cheshire
Salary £30,056 – £34,170 (Scientist) or £37,415 - £43,072 (Senior Scientist) dependent upon qualifications and experience and inclusive of annual allowance
Full time/Flexible hours considered
2 Years Fixed Term
About Us
The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is one of Europe’s largest science research organisations. We’re trusted to support, enable and undertake pioneering projects in an amazing diversity of fields. Through world-class facilities and people, we’re driving ground-breaking advances in science and technology.
STFC’s Scientific Computing Department (SCD) develops leading edge software, computer and data storage infrastructures to support the work of world class science both within STFC and internationally; contributing to the solution of grand scientific computing challenges.
About The Role
We now have an excellent opportunity for a talented researcher, with expertise in solving Fluid Structure Interaction (FSI) problems, to join our Computational Engineering and Environment Group, within SCD on an initial two year fixed term basis.
The group has a diverse skill-set across various aspects of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and High Performance Computing (HPC) and we are now looking to expand our research scope into the solution of industrial and academic FSI problems in order to tackle multi-physics and multi-scale challenges faced by industry and academia.
STFC, through our Hartree Centre and in collaboration with IBM and UK government, has a project to improve digital productivity within UK industry. This role will work with a number of high-profile industrial partners on FSI problems currently of the most importance to them, as well as with other scientists within STFC and academia.
Further responsibilities will include:
• performing proof of principle calculations to establish and demonstrate new scientific capabilities and ideas
• developing existing or new HPC-compliant scientific software solutions to scoped FSI problems and defining simulation workflows through them
• contributing to and developing proposals for funding from within academia or industry
• preparing and submitting journal articles for publication
• attending, and presenting at UK and international conferences.
You will be appointed at either Band D (Scientist) or Band E (Senior Scientist) of STFC’s staffing hierarchy, depending on the strength of your skills, experience and qualifications
About You
You should hold, or be about to receive, a Postgraduate Degree in a physical science, engineering science, computer science or mathematics.
You will be comfortable both with advanced CFD and computational mechanics and developing coupled solutions able to robustly solve industrial problems.
Novel solutions to problems will need to be investigated, therefore you should be comfortable with the concept of code coupling for multi-physics problems and development of original software solutions or further development of open-source software, i.e. ParaFEM, OpenFOAM, Code_Saturne etc.
You will also demonstrate experience or knowledge in the following areas:
Essential (bands D and E):
• FSI through both practical solution of problems as well as through a track record in research.
• solving FSI problems using HPC compliant software and techniques
• developing and deploying solutions to large-scale HPC resources
• original software development in one or more scientific languages e.g. C/C++/Fortran
• Unix/Linux based HPC environments.
Essential (band E):
• proven FSI research e.g. publications, successful funding applications.
Desirable (bands D and E):
• programming and developing parallel solutions for HPC environments e.g. MPI, OpenMP, CUDA, OpenCL etc.
• original scientific software development on HPC for FSI problems
• working both with academia and industry.
Desirable (band E):
• research project management
• staff leadership.
You will demonstrate good communication and interpersonal skills, including an ability to communicate complex subject matter to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Benefits
STFC holds the Investor in People Gold accreditation and offers a benefits package including an exceptional index linked pension scheme, 30 days leave allowance and flexible working. A relocation allowance may also be available where applicable.
Full details of offered benefits can be found on STFC’s careers pages.
To Apply
Applicants are required to include a cover letter outlining their suitability for this role. Please also state where you saw this role advertised.
Applications are received by UK SBS; to apply please visit our job board at
http://www.topcareer.jobs/Vacancy/irc243133_7642.aspx. Applicants who are unable to apply online should contact us by telephone on +44 (0)1793 867000.
The closing date for applications is 10th December 2017 with an interview date of the 10th January 2018.
