Scientific Software Engineering; SSE Center - Senior​/Principal Research Engineer

Overview

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high‑quality student body, and commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship.

Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work‑life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

Georgia Tech is a top‑ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top‑ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech’s faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security.

Georgia Tech ranks among the nation’s top 20 universities for research and development spending and is No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech’s mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

• Students are our top priority.
• We strive for excellence.
• We thrive on diversity.
• We celebrate collaboration.
• We champion innovation.
• We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
• We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
• We act ethically.
• We are responsible stewards.

The School of Computer Science is home to a group of faculty and researchers with breadth and strength in all aspects of the computational process. Our research is at the forefront of AI Foundations, Computer Architecture, Data Systems, Programming Languages & Software Engineering, Networking, Systems, and Theory in computer science.

The Scientific Software Engineering (SSE) Center at Georgia Tech (one of the four inaugural Virtual Institute for Scientific Software centers) supports the development of better quality, more sustainable scientific software. To achieve this goal, the Center will:

• Create custom software solutions in partnership with scientific researchers.
• Provide guidance on state‑of‑the‑art tools, technology, and techniques.
• Encourage best practices in open science and the open‑source software that supports it.
• Create and support long‑term scientific platforms and systems.

The School of Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology is seeking to hire a Research Engineer, open rank to contribute and potentially lead the school's various software projects.

• Contribute to and lead one or more software projects among those pursued by the SSE Center.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain software systems related to center projects.
• Interact regularly with other engineers in the center, including mentoring junior engineers and student interns.
• Foster a comprehensive and collaborative work environment.
• Provide regular project status reports to the Center Director and the Lead Software Engineer.

This position vacancy is an open rank announcement. Final job offer will be dependent on candidate qualifications in alignment with Research Faculty ranks as outlined in section 3.2.1 of the Georgia Tech Faculty Handbook.

Senior Research Engineer

• Master’s degree with seven (7) years of relevant full‑time experience after completion of that degree, or
• Master’s degree with nine (9) years of relevant full‑time experience after completion of a Bachelor’s degree, or
• Doctoral degree with four (4) years of relevant full‑time experience after completion of a Bachelor’s degree.

Principal Research Engineer

• Master’s degree with eleven (11) years of…