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.
Organization unit:
CASUS
Place of work/ Working hours:
Görlitz
Full time
Hire date:
1 September 2026
Limitation:
36 months
For any questions, do not hesitate to ask:
Dr. Andreas Knüpfer Tel.: +49 3581 37523 123
Deadline:
30 June 2026
Job-Id: 2026/51 (2224)
At HZDR, we promote and value diversity among our employees. We welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds regardless of gender, ethnic and social origin, belief, disability, age, and sexual orientation. Severely disabled persons are given preference in the event of equal suitability.
Helmholtz-Zentrum
Dresden-Rossendorf
Bautzner Landstraße 400
01328 Dresden