The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) is an international organisation supported by 32 States*. Its prime objectives are the operational production of analyses, medium-range forecasts of weather and ocean waves and seasonal forecasts as well as scientific and technical research directed to the improvement of these forecasts.
ECMWF operates a large computing facility including supercomputers, data archiving systems and networks. For details see:

The person selected will be the Head of the Servers and Desktops Section. In this capacity, the successful candidate will manage a team of nine analysts/consultants and co-ordinate the work of the Section, covering the following technical areas:

Qualifications:

A university education to degree standard or equivalent is required, coupled with at least 10 years of relevant professional experience. A broad comprehension of principles and practices of computing technologies is expected. The successful candidate should have experience in system administration and supporting users, preferably in a heterogeneous environment. Experience in or knowledge of some of the following technologies would be a distinct advantage: Unix systems, Linux, Windows systems, Active Directory, LDAP, VMware or other virtualisation systems.
Applicants should be experienced in leading teams and should possess a theoretical understanding of project management as well as practical experience of it. Experience of dealing with sales personnel, technical staff and managers from vendors of IT equipment and software would be advantageous.
Applicants should possess good analytical and interpersonal skills. Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, are essential.
Staff members are normally recruited from among the nationals of the following Member and Co-operating States: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom.

Remuneration:

For Grade A4: within the range of £5,440.69 to £7,211.69 basic salary per month net of tax.
In principle, a staff member will be engaged at the lowest step of the grade of the post for which he or she is selected.

A deduction is made from the basic salary for the Pension Scheme and for Partial Invalidity (currently 8.8% , rising to 10.8% from 01.01.2011 for the Pension Scheme and 0.2% for Partial Invalidity). A further 1.46% of basic salary and related allowances is currently deducted for the ECMWF Supplementary Health Insurance Scheme.

Starting date: 1 February 2011, or as soon as possible thereafter.

Length of contract: Maximum of 4 years for initial contract, with the possibility of renewal.

Applications: http://www.ecmwf.int/newsevents/employment/en/AP10-23-en.html

Closing date: 26 October 2010.

Location:

ECMWF Headquarters at Shinfield Park, near Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Environment:

The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) is an international organisation supported by 32 States*. Its prime objectives are the operational production of analyses, medium-range forecasts of weather and ocean waves and seasonal forecasts, as well as scientific and technical research directed to the improvement of these forecasts. ECMWF operates a large computing facility including supercomputers, data archiving systems and networks. For details see:

The Reanalysis Section works in close collaboration with other sections of the Research and Operations Departments to develop, produce and disseminate state-of-the-art atmospheric reanalysis datasets. The latest ECMWF reanalysis is ERA-Interim, which covers the period 1989 to the present and continues to be updated in near-real time.

This position is intended to help the section prepare for an ambitious new atmospheric reanalysis project spanning the entire twentieth century (ERA-20C).

The main duties include:

• To help develop the data assimilation system for ERA-20C
• To prepare climate-quality atmospheric forcing data and boundary conditions
• To conduct model simulations and data assimilation experiments in preparation for ERA-20C
• To help improve the use of observations in reanalysis by means of observing system experiments
• To conduct scientific research on reanalysis performance and/or methodology as needed

Qualifications:

PhD level or equivalent, with postgraduate experience in atmospheric data assimilation and exploitation of meteorological observations. Experience in Fortran programming and developing complex scientific codes and systems is required. Familiarity with the main components of the global atmospheric observing system is strongly preferred.

The working languages of ECMWF are English, French and German. Candidates must be able to work effectively in English and have a good knowledge of one of the other working languages of ECMWF. Interviews will be conducted in English.

Remuneration:

Typically within the range of £3,795.00 to £5,255.00 per month net of tax, depending upon qualifications, experience, personal situation and eligibility for expatriation allowance. A deduction of either £33.62 per beneficiary or 4.38% of the monthly remuneration will be made for the supplementary health insurance scheme.

Starting date: 1 January 2011, subject to approval of the FP7-funded ERACLIM research project.

Length of contract: One-year with a possible extension of two further years.

Applications: http://www.ecmwf.int/newsevents/employment/en/AP10-26-en.html

Deadline: 28th October 2010

ECMWF’s current High Performance Computing Facility comprises two IBM compute clusters running the AIX UNIX operating system, each with 274 x 32-CPU nodes based on POWER6 technology, and two storage clusters serving 1.2 petabytes of disk storage. This system is at the core of a highly available IT infrastructure for the daily production of weather forecasts according to a tight operational schedule.

The post is in the HPC group in the Systems Software Section of ECMWF’s Computer Division.
The HPC group supports the High Performance Computing Facility, providing computing resources for ECMWF’s operational activities and research programme as well as to its Member States*. The successful applicant will work as part of a small team that ensures that the systems continue to provide the high levels of service that are expected of them.
The main duties of the post include:

• Planning and scheduling upgrades to the ECMWF’s HPC system
• Installing, maintaining and configuring the operating system and standard utilities on the HPC facilities
• Configuring the user environment on these systems
• Resolving user and operational problems relating to the operating system or to software packages maintained by the section
• Providing general day-to-day support, including 24-hour on-call support
• Ensuring that the HPC Facilities are used efficiently, and to that end, providing ECMWF’s support groups and users with the tools to enable this
• Participating in meetings with supercomputer vendors and at international technical conferences
• From time to time, contributing to the research and evaluation of successor systems to ECMWF’s current High Performance Computing Facilities

Qualifications:

A university education, or equivalent, is required, coupled with at least five years of experience in Unix systems administration. A professional background in massively parallel processing computer systems, large-scale Linux clusters or other machines of similar architecture, in particular IBM SP clusters running AIX, would be a distinct advantage. A good knowledge of Unix shells, Perl or Python, software configuration management and operating system security is essential. Some familiarity with parallel programming using C, Fortran, MPI and/or openMP is considered beneficial.
The successful candidate should be proactive, methodical and have good analytical skills, able to demonstrate an ability to progress multiple tasks to completion and solve problems under pressure. Good written and oral communication skills are essential as is the ability to work responsibly and reliably as a member of a small team.
Staff members are normally recruited from among the nationals of the following Member and Co-operating States: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom.

Remuneration:

A2: £3,795.24 to £5,069.79 basic salary per month net of tax.

A3: £4,683.01 to £6,333.06 basic salary per month net of tax.
In principle, a staff member will be engaged at the lowest step of the lower grade of the post for which he or she is selected. Exceptionally, recruitment may be at a higher level when this is justified by qualifications and experience.

A deduction is made from the basic salary for the Pension Scheme and for Partial Invalidity (currently 8.8%, rising to 10.8% from 01.01.2011 for the Pension Scheme and 0.2% for Partial Invalidity). A further 1.46% of basic salary and related allowances is currently deducted for the ECMWF Supplementary Health Insurance Scheme.

Starting date: As soon as possible.

Length of contract: Maximum of 4 years for initial contract, with the possibility of renewal.

Application forms can be downloaded from ECMWF’s website:

www.ecmwf.int/newsevents/employment/en/

Closing Date 26 October 2010

National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) – “Seachange Project”
Climate Directorate – Department of Meteorology, University of Reading

Salary range:  Grade 6-7 (£27,319 to £41,323)

Full time, fixed term for 3 years

Closing Date:  31/08/2010

External Job Reference:  RS10030

The National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) need an experienced, skilful and imaginative software developer to produce new software for analysis and visualisation of model-generated and observational climate data.

You will design and implement  the software, taking account of community standards, user requirements and existing tools, document  it and support initial users.

You will have:

• Excellent  programming skills.
• A first degree in a scientific or numerical discipline and understanding of physical data analysis.
• Experience with software development  in a research environment and (grade 7) with design of software systems.
• Self-motivation and creativity.
• Good communication skills, both written and oral.
• Ability to maintain productive working relationships.

Previous research experience in physical science would be an advantage.

Informal contact details
Contact role: Principal Investigator
Contact name: Professor Jonathan Gregory
Contact phone: +44 (0)118 378 5602
Contact email: j.m.gregory@reading.ac.uk

Applications should be made online via the University of Reading website at www.reading.ac.uk/jobs

At this moment Xelvin is looking for:

Experimental Physicists

Department:

The department is charged with designing, building and testing nano- and micro level systems and sub-systems which are fitted into the end products. The area’s involved are in material sciences, optics, thermodynamics, quantum physics, low temperatures / pressures and all experimental related.

Job Mission:

To contribute to the development of products by designing, creating and testing, sub-systems within the restrictions imposed by system specifications, costs and planning considerations. As well the integration of subsystems as the partially system design and simulation (Matlab) is part of this job.

Job Description:

• Specifies, analyzes and supports the design, and tests modules in order to control equipment and measurements in the machine.
• Supports the design by analysis.
• Comes up with tests and performs these tests on the design to verify the specifications.
• Is responsible for the proper documentation of specifications, supporting calculations, and tests.

Educational Level

Technical University Master or PhD graduate in physics. Solid in both theoretical and experimental experience in the field of materials sciences, optical techniques & methods, building and testing of setups, simulations, integration, testing or system designing.

Personal Skills

Strong analytical ability with a pragmatic attitude. Good communicational skills and good knowledge of English.

Please send your resume and motivation letter to Erik de Groote via e.degroote@xelvin.nl or call our office in Eindhoven on +31 (0)40 29 10 056.

At this moment Xelvin is looking for:

Optical Engineers

Department:

The optical department is charged with designing, building and testing the optical systems and sub-systems which are fitted into the end products. This specific group is concerned with the optics, opto-electronics and all interferometry within its high tech machine.
The holder of the position reports to the group leader of this department and is operational within multidisciplinary projects

Job Mission:

To contribute to the development of products by designing, creating and testing, sub-systems within the restrictions imposed by system specifications, costs and planning considerations. As well the integration of subsystems as the partially system design and simulation (matlab) is part of this job.

Job Description:

• Specifies, analyzes and supports the design, and tests modules in order to control all optical equipment and measurements in the machine.
• Supports the design by analysis.
• Comes up with tests and performs these tests on the design to verify the specifications.
• Is responsible for the proper documentation of specifications, supporting calculations, and tests.

Educational Level

Technical University Master or PhD graduate in (technical) physics or mechanical engineer. Solid in both theoretical and experimental experience in the field of optics, diffraction, opto-electronics, polarization, integration, coating, interferometry, system design, simulation and budgets.

Personal Skills

Strong analytical ability with a pragmatic attitude. Good communicational skills and good knowledge of English.

Please send your resume and motivation letter to Erik de Groote via e.degroote@xelvin.nl or call our office in Eindhoven on +31 (0)40 29 10 056.

Duties will include:

• To work on multiple development topics and projects as required.
• To lead projects with a chemistry and surface analysis bias, taking responsibility for successful completion.
• To work to project plans and inform line manager at earliest opportunity if project progress is not to plan.
• To maintain comprehensive and accurate records of all work in formats requested.
• To produce project progress reports as requested.
• To attend and contribute to meetings as required

The ideal candidate will have:

• PhD or good first Degree in a Science or Engineering subject.
• Experience in chemistry or a materials science is desirable.
• Experience gained within an ISO9001 environment is advantageous.
• Ability to lead a project team or work alone.
• Have a proven track record in working to tight commercial deadlines
• Excellent project management and communication skills
• Able to assimilate and disseminate technical information in timely manner.
• Self motivated, energetic and able to drive pace
• Ability in building relationships and communicating at all levels
• Passionate about developing new technologies with a firm focus on commercialisation and implementation
• Team player, and able to work on own initiative.
• Professional and positive outlook

Contact:  caroline@requaero.com

Successful candidates will be highly confident in their maths ability and will be able to demonstrate their skills in a multi-disciplinary and innovative environment.

Pre-requisites:

• A PhD in a mathematical subject (Maths, theoretical physics, …)
• Research experience

Candidates with 1-3 years work experience in a corporate environment are strongly encouraged to apply!

Salary will depend on relevant individual skills and experience.

Contact ExcelScient with your CV and list of publications for more information.

The candidate will require a relevant Mathematics/Statistics upper second class honours, or lower second class honours + MSC.

The aim of this interdisciplinary project is to quantify the trends in extreme extratropical cyclones in Europe and the related impacts on the design of non-indemnity reinsurance contracts such as catastrophe bonds.

The project combines ideas from atmospheric and climate science with statistical models to tackle a problem in finance and insurance in a new, exciting interdisciplinary approach. The student will be supervised by Dr Renato Vitolo and Professor David Stephenson (University of Exeter) and co-supervised by Mr Ian Cook, chief actuary at Willis Re.

For further information, please consult the page:
http://www.secam.ex.ac.uk/index.php?nav=newsArchive&nid=1525

NIWA is a leading environmental research institute and key provider of atmospheric, freshwater and marine research and consultancy services in New Zealand.

In early 2010 NIWA will install a new IBM p575/p6 HPC. This system will start at 56 nodes and is expected to increase to 108 nodes in 2011/12. The new High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF) will primarily be used to support NIWA’s research activities in climate, weather, sea state, ocean and sea level modelling and forecasting, and to support an operational environmental forecasting system – EcoConnect.

NIWA are seeking a Scientific Programmer who can provide support to both NIWA and external science users of the new HPCF. This is a new position at NIWA and will provide the successful appointee with opportunities to work on a leading edge HPC in an institution that is focused on improving our understanding of the environment at temporal scales ranging from hours to decades into the future.

Applicants should have at least ten years’ of advanced Fortran (77, 90, 95, 2003) programming experience, with demonstrated skills in the development and application of advanced algorithms on parallel HPC systems, and of supporting/mentoring science end-users. Experience in the management of large Fortran and multi-language software code bases and of MPI and/or OpenMP programming methods would be advantageous.

You can read more about NIWA’s new HPC Facility on their website via http://bit.ly/IDLOe.

For further information about NIWA, a full position description, and online applications, please visit www.careers.niwa.co.nz