ASSOCIATE SOFTWARE ENGINEER

As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world. 

UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits and natural beauty. 

The University of Washington’s eScience Institute was founded in 2008 to promote data science adoption and methods development across all areas of science, engineering, arts and humanities. There is a large and growing need not just for data science talent, but also for research software engineering expertise.

To address this need, the University of Washington’s eScience Institute is leveraging an investment of the Schmidt Futures Foundation of $40M across four universities to build a Scientific Software Engineering Center (SSEC). The primary goal of the SSEC is to support the development of infrastructure and capacity within the University of Washington (UW) to address difficult scientific software problems that will address aspects such as the nature of the universe, climate change, how to design better materials, etc. The SSEC will be staffed by seasoned software engineers to work on impactful science research projects, infusing them with software industry’s best practices, and delivering reusable, open source software that will accelerate future research in areas like climate change, health, energy and basic science.

We are looking for a highly qualified software engineering expert with dual backgrounds in science and technology, who will be central to the SSEC mission to support data driven research by enabling the development of new software tools and user communities serving greater scientific goals.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
With a working title of Associate Software Engineer (E S 9), this position will be part of a new endeavor to create a collegial, creative team, collaborating with University researchers to improve efficiency and reproducibility of research outcomes. Responsibilities will focus primarily on application design and implementation.  This position will also be involved with research design and collaboration, problem resolution, and projects. The position reports to the Center Software Engineering Lead (UW title: Sr. Principal Research Scientist/Engineer).

Design and Implement Applications