Research Software Engineer

Research Software Engineer Job Description Template

Our company is looking for a Research Software Engineer to join our team.

Responsibilities:

  • You will collaborate with diverse teams of scientists and engineers to build advanced software systems;
  • You will design minimum viable products using cutting edge and sometimes brittle computer vision and machine learning algorithms.

Requirements:

  • Demonstrated ability to architect flexible and extensible software systems;
  • Demonstrated ability to scope and build minimum viable products (MVP);
  • Experience of working collaboratively and presenting and sharing ideas;
  • Significant proven experience working as a Software Engineer in a research lab or in industry;
  • Inquisitiveness to learn about new problems and ideas;
  • Hands-on experience building efficient data pipelines for large-scale processing, and great knowledge on relevant data structures and algorithms;
  • Excellent practical software engineering ability, particularly Python (profiling/optimization) and C/C++;
  • Experience working with IoT devices, embedded systems or drones, and/or usable mobile decision support information system;
  • Further requirements supplied in the Job Description;
  • A degree in a relevant subject or equivalent subject to computer science, or at least 5 years software development experience;
  • Strong programming ability including excellent working knowledge of Python.