at National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Urbana, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Research Software and Application Development:
- Engineer and develop software that addresses real world complex research problems with interfaces to powerful backend tools and interdisciplinary analyses such as
science, engineering, the humanities and social sciences.
Research Software and Application Development:
• Engineer and develop software that addresses real world complex research problems with interfaces to powerful backend tools and interdisciplinary analyses such as science, engineering, the humanities and social sciences.
• Apply scientific domain knowledge to architect and design software programs to help researchers define and solve heterogenous problems, provide consulting expertise to researchers across a variety of domain sciences to leverage synergies across projects, and design and support shared cyberinfrastructure to support a broad range of communities.
• Evaluate and integrate collaborative input and design new approaches and techniques to address project specific needs and critical technological challenges.
• Track research activity in relevant fields both programmatic and domain specific.
◦ Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses between varieties of novel approaches to research and scientific software development problems.
Research Communication:
- Publish and present results of scientific software research and development at national and international conferences.
- Contribute to publications, technical reports, and documentation.
- Communicate findings from research development activities above with project colleagues, including primary investigators, to be used as needed in current programming and design efforts.
System Architecture and Design:
- Develop research-oriented code which supports an environment of secure systems, and design and develop security-oriented programs using established software development methodologies (i.e. agile, lean, rapid application, etc.) which by nature defend against disruption or misdirection of services.
