Are you a highly skilled and motivated scientific programmer, with a keen interest to work closely together with scientists, and do you want to apply your skills in cutting edge computational projects, utilizing the most advanced High Performance Computing infrastructure in Europe? Do you want to work in international projects, with multidisciplinary teams, and work in a young and dynamic team? If you recognize yourself in this, we are happy to invite you to apply for this position.

What are you going to do?

We seek a scientific programmer for advanced applications in relation to Computational Biomedicine, executing on high-end massively parallel computing systems. The main focus will be on the development and maintenance of our software portfolio (for an example see our open-source cellular flow modelling toolkit: www.hemocell.eu) and to contribute to workflows in relation to in-silico clinical trials. The development tasks will include the addition of new, specialized applications of our software. These applications are often embedded in large international projects in cooperation with external partners in Sheffield, London, and Geneva. Further tasks will include supporting our scientific team to realize efficient HPC simulation solutions with these codes.

This position can give grounds to fast professional development in parallel numerical techniques, simulation methods, and application of state-of-the-art computational solutions for large-scale systems.

The candidates should have a Master’s degree in Computational Science or in related field, with experience in High Performance Computing. The candidate should be first and foremost an excellent programmer, fluent in C++ and Python, with experience in complex software engineering projects, including collaborative software development. Since most task revolve around numerical modelling, knowledge and general interest of solving scientific problems with numerical techniques is important. Furthermore, tasks are mostly done in collaboration, therefore the will and the capability to communicate with scientists from different disciplines (for instance biomedicine, physics, computer science) is necessary.

The followings are considered an advantage:

• experience with scientific codes, including open-source ones such as: Palabos, Espresso, LAMMPS.
• knowledge of HPC job scheduling systems (e.g. slurm, PBS);
• knowledge of any of the following programming languages: Fortran, C#, Java, julia;
• knowledge of the lattice Boltzmann method;
• knowledge of workflow systems, e.g. Taverna;

• motivation to read, process, and understand scientific papers (and possibly author a few).

A temporary contract for 38 hours per week for the duration of 36 months.

The salary, depending on relevant experience before the beginning of the employment contract, will be €2,835 to €4,274 (scale 9 or 10) gross per month, dependent on experience, based on fulltime (38 hours a week), exclusive 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus. A favorable tax agreement, the ‘30% ruling’, may apply to non-Dutch applicants. The Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities is applicable. 

Are you curious about our extensive package of secondary employment benefits like our excellent opportunities for study and development? Take a look at Working at the Faculty of Science.  

University of Amsterdam

With over 5,000 employees, 30,000 students and a budget of more than 600 million euros, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is an intellectual hub within the Netherlands. Teaching and research at the UvA are conducted within seven faculties: Humanities, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Economics and Business, Law, Science, Medicine and Dentistry. Housed on four city campuses in or near the heart of Amsterdam, where disciplines come together and interact, the faculties have close links with thousands of researchers and hundreds of institutions at home and abroad.  

The UvA’s students and employees are independent thinkers, competent rebels who dare to question dogmas and aren’t satisfied with easy answers and standard solutions. To work at the UvA is to work in an independent, creative, innovative and international climate characterised by an open atmosphere and a genuine engagement with the city of Amsterdam and society.

http://www.uva.nl/en/home

Informatics Institute

The Faculty of Science has a student body of around 6,500, as well as 1,600 members of staff working in education, research or support services. Researchers and students at the Faculty of Science are fascinated by every aspect of how the world works, be it elementary particles, the birth of the universe or the functioning of the brain.

The Computational Science Lab of the Informatics Institute aims to make dynamic complex systems tractable via computational science. We study a broad range of dynamics systems in fields ranging from biomedicine to urban, or socioeconomic systems. We also develop theory of dynamic complex systems based on concepts of information processing.

English is the working language within the Informatics Institute. Moreover, since Amsterdam is a very international city where almost everybody speaks and understands English, candidates need not be afraid of the language barrier.

Some of the things we have to offer:

• very friendly, interactive and international working environment;
• new building located near the city center (20 minutes by bicycle) of one of Europe's most beautiful and lively cities;
• access to high-end computing facilities (e.g. cluster with 4,000+ cores).

http://ivi.uva.nl