PhD Student (f/m/d) for HPC/GPU Computing – 2026/52 Full-time

PhD Student (f/m/d) for HPC/GPU Computing

With cutting-edge research in the fields of ENERGY, HEALTH and MATTER, around 1,500 employees from more than 70 nations at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) are committed to mastering the great challenges facing society today.

The Center for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS) is a German-Polish research center for data-intensive digital systems research.

The Department of Scientific Computing Core is looking for a PhD Student (f/m/d) for HPC/GPU Computing.

Your Tasks

• Research in GPU programming and (highly) parallel programming for HPC and Scientific Computing
• Active contribution to Open Source Scientific Community codes
• Working with application field scientists from various fields and different levels of IT background and their ambitious HPC codes
• Own research focus and Ph.D. topic related to GPU programming such as:
  • Parallel programming models or programming abstraction
  • Parallel algorithms
  • Performance/scalability analysis and optimization or
  • Exploration of AI assisted programming for parallel processing or GPUs
• Publishing results in academic and peer-reviewed journals with own research focus topics and in collaboration with application field scientists; presenting results at scientific meetings

Your Profile

• Completed university studies (Master/Diploma) in one of the fields of Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, or a related field with a strong computational science focus
• Experience in numerical algorithms is a plus
• Practical experience and proven contributions (scientific publications or software development) are a plus
• Experience with libraries for scientific computing, parallel computing and GPU computing are a plus
• Strong motivation to work in a collaborative and international environment
• Excellent programming skills in at least one of C/C++, Fortran, or Julia; more are a plus
• Experience in parallel programming with at least one of CUDA/HIP, Alpaka or Kokkos, MPI, OpenMP, HPX, or similar
• Experience with development tools and build systems, git and collaborative development, debugging and profiling tools
• Experience with Linux and on the command line; working in HPC environments
• Excellent communication skills in English and in a professional context; German language skills are a plus

Our Offer

• A vibrant research community in an open, diverse and international work environment
• Scientific excellence and extensive professional networking opportunities
• A structured PhD program with a comprehensive range of continuing education and networking opportunities – more information about the PhD program at the HZDR can be found here
• Salary and social benefits in accordance with the collective agreement for the public sector (TVöD-Bund) including 30 days of paid holiday leave, company pension scheme (VBL)
• Depending on the personal qualifications, the candidate may be classified in salary group 13 according to TVöD-Bund
• We support a good work-life balance with the possibility of part-time employment, mobile working and flexible working hours
• Numerous company health management offerings
• Employee discounts with well-known providers via the platform Corporate Benefits
• An employer subsidy for the “Deutschland-Ticket Jobticket”

We look forward to receiving your application documents (including cover letter, CV, diplomas/transcripts, etc.), which you can submit via our online-application-system.