PyCharm has a full remote workflow, which I find too difficult to use. I am sure they will make it easier as it still in infancy. Instead, I just configure a remote SSH interpreter. Then you could create a remote SSH project pretty easily. The wrinkle is that you can not create an SSH project with the Scientific Mode (it says not supported). Instead you just create a regular SSH project and then, after the project is created, you switch to the Scientific Mode. Everything will work fine then. I do not think the above process will work in the Community version of the PyCharm, - you have to use Professional Edition.