Postdoc (f/m/d) GPGPU Computing – 2026/51 Part-time

Postdoc (F/M/D) Gpgpu 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 postdoc (f/m/d) gpgpu 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 on one of the areas of
  • parallel programming models or programming abstraction
  • parallel algorithms
  • performance/scalability analysis and optimization or
  • exploration of ai assisted programming for parallel processing
• 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 (phd) 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
• 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)
• 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.