Research Software Engineer

Job Summary
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Morgridge Institute for Research is focused on advancing scientific research through innovative software engineering. The Research Software Engineer will work on modernizing software engineering techniques for research projects, particularly on the Pelican Platform, and will collaborate with scientists to tackle diverse challenges in distributed systems.

Responsibilities
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• 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 Morgridge Institute for Research.

Qualifications
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Required
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• 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.

• Strong systems design and programming skills.

• Experience in writing design documents as part of feature design

• Ability to keep projects organized in a project management / issuer tracker system such as JIRA.

• Familiarity of software development environments like Git Hub and modern CI/CD tooling such as Git Hub Actions or Jenkins.

Preferred
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• Master’s degree preferred.

• 3+ years of working with software engineering preferred.

• Experience in utilizing large-scale computing environments such as batch or cloud is preferred.

• Knowledge of working with the following technologies and environments is desired: HTCondor, Containers/Kubernetes, Pelican, or federally-funded cyberinfrastructure.

Company
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Morgridge Institute for Research is a nonprofit institution that focuses on biosciences research for diverse disciplines. Founded in 2004, the company is headquartered in Madison, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.