Research Software Engineer

Job summary

Description: The Research Software Engineer (RSE) will work to bring modern software engineering techniques and approaches to research projects at the institute as part of long-running engagements and collaborations between scientists. At Morgridge, the RSE will sit at the nexus of exciting research, large-scale computing, and national cyberinfrastructure projects.

Qualifications

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.
• Some of the
• listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
• Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary

Responsibilities

• Interact with scientific group leaders and the Research Computing leads to identify pressing software engineering challenges and scoping / architecting / implementing / supporting a program of work to solve them.
• Develop distributed systems code bases (typically languages include Go but C++ and Python are also used) to make them more robust or implement new functionality.
• Assist the operations team in debugging distributed systems and to deploy newly-developed features.
• As aligned with experience, lead student software engineering interns on specific semester-long projects.
• Provide assistance with other projects, as necessary to support the overall mission and goals of The***
• can be learned through on-the-job training.
• Education and Experience:
• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or biological sciences; Master’s degree preferred.
• 1+ years of working with software engineering, preferably in a research environment; 3+ years preferred.
• Programming experience in either Go, Python or C++; Go preferred.
• Experience in utilizing large-scale computing environments such as batch or cloud is preferred.
• Knowledge,

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