Research Software Engineer, AI Digital Twins for Climate

Do you want to contribute to an international effort to develop AI-driven digital twins for climate, while leveraging some of the world's leading supercomputers?

At CSC, we offer unparalleled growth opportunities, a supportive and inclusive work environment, and the chance to work on the future of research and learning. Join us today!

We are now looking for a Research Software Engineer to join CSC's Digital Twin Technologies Group in Espoo. Our team develops cutting-edge technologies for digital twins, with a particular focus on Earth system digital twins as part of the Destination Earth initiative (https://destination-earth.eu/).

In this position, you will play a key role in an EU-funded research project focused on developing an AI-driven digital twin platform for delivering climate simulations to support science, industry, and policymaking. The platform will run on EuroHPC supercomputers, including LUMI (https://lumi-supercomputer.eu/), and will also leverage LUMI AI Factory capabilities (https://lumi-ai-factory.eu). You will work as part of an international team of scientists, software engineers, and AI experts to develop this platform.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

Develop and maintain workflow orchestration for distributed, hybrid execution across HPC and cloud environments

Develop containerized, reproducible deployments on EuroHPC systems and AI Factories

Implement CI/CD pipelines with integrated computational performance, data quality, and energy-efficiency metrics

Benchmark example pipelines to ensure reusable, reproducible, and sustainable operation on HPC platforms

Collaborate closely with a multidisciplinary, international project team

Contribute to software documentation and project reporting

What we expect

To be successful in the role, you need:

Proven experience working with HPC environments, including large-scale workflows, batch scheduling (Slurm), and performance considerations

Solid programming and scripting skills in Python