Location: Pasadena, CA
Cap-Exempt H-1B Position — No lottery required
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