Job Description

Senior Research Software Engineer


US-NY-New York



Job ID: 2025-14464

Type: NYU IT (WS1170)

# of Openings: 1

Category: Technology
New York University



Overview


The Senior Research Software Engineer designs, develops, and maintains software and application solutions for NYU researchers and instructors. This position is key to leveraging the university investments in research computing and teaching infrastructure and services including a state-of-the-art HPC cluster, a Big Data analytics cluster, a cluster dedicated to Artificial Intelligence projects, an investment to research cloud for bursting HPC jobs, and a dedicated High-Speed Research Network. This position is involved in scoping, architecting, designing, building, and supporting infrastructure and computing projects, in alignment with AI, Research Cloud, and HPC needs. Partner closely with NYU researchers and instructors to assist in collecting their computational requirements and implementing appropriate software solutions. Provide targeted consulting to faculty and research teams aimed at improving the competitiveness of extramural funding proposals. Collaborate with NYU IT teams to provide the input needed to align the operation and configuration of the research infrastructure investments with the needs of researchers and instructors at the university.



Responsibilities



Required Education:
Master's Degree in Computer Science, Physics, Engineering, or related field or equivalent work experience.



Preferred Education:
Doctoral Degree in Computer Science, Physics, Engineering, or related field or equivalent.



Required Experience:
5+ years of experience working with software engineering. Programming experience in high-level languages such as Python, Go, node.jsExperience with databases, web frontend and backend components. Experience with software packaging and distribution (eg. on pypi). Fluency with git and GitHub. Experience with a wide range of computing environments such as cloud, and HPC. Excellent interpersonal communication, presentation and written and verbal communication skills, including documentation and customer support.



Preferred Experience:
5+ years of work experience as a software engineer in an academic or research setting. Experience designing, building, and deploying containers or applications on kubernetes in public cloud providers (e.g. GCP). Experience with design, building and deploying containers (Docker, Singularity) in an HPC environment. Experience developing GenAI applications. A record of successes in programming, architecting, deploying and systems that are used or have produced concrete results. Experience working in an academic research environment.



Required Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:
Excellent programming and math skills. Proven expertise with Kubernetes and DevOps/microservices development, CI/CD pipelines and with the Linux OS. Drive to continually expand knowledge in the areas of new technological developments and trends. Ability to present technical concepts in a clear manner to researchers through demos, proposals and presentations. Experience with computational support for academic research.



Preferred Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:
Having a quantitative background, knowledge of batch schedulings, MLOps, and LLMOpsExperience in a consulting, collaborative, or service-like role with researchers or clients. Experience with managing structured and unstructured data. Desire and ability to write content on relevant technical subjects for a blog, white paper, or as a contribution to a grant proposal.





Qualifications


In compliance with NYC's Pay Transparency Act, the annual base salary range for this position is USD $110,000.00 to USD $130,000.00. New York University considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, as well as, market and organizational considerations when extending an offer. This pay range represents base pay only and excludes any additional items such as incentives, bonuses, clinical compensation, or other items.


NYU aims to be among the greenest urban campuses in the country and carbon neutral by 2040. Learn more at nyu.edu/nyugreen.


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About New York University

New York University (NYU) is one of the top private universities in the United States, and NYU Tandon School of Engineering traces its roots back to 1854, building on an illustrious past as Brooklyn Poly and the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering. Our mission is to excel in research, teaching, and entrepreneurship and inspire and educate engineers for the 21st century — backed by an historic commitment of $1 billion to recruit new faculty, fuel groundbreaking basic and applied research in key areas, and expand the Downtown Brooklyn campus. NYU Tandon faculty are world renowned leaders in science and technology, with a strong commitment to research, innovation, and entrepreneurship that make a difference in the world. We lead and have ties to multidisciplinary centers in wireless technology, cybersecurity, urban informatics, data sciences, artificial intelligence, renewable energy, and health, among others. Our faculty and students are part of the high-tech start-up culture in New York City and in downtown Brooklyn, and we support three “future lab” business incubators that connect our students and faculty to today’s innovation economy. We are deeply committed to teaching and le ... arning, and with NYU's unrivaled global network of campuses, we promote a truly global engineering education. NYU Tandon is committed to substantially increase the proportion of our faculty from historically underrepresented groups in STEM and we encourage candidates from such groups to apply. We aspire to create a climate where diversity and inclusion are not only appreciated but considered an asset for creativity and innovation, and we seek faculty who have a real passion for a culturally diverse environment. We take pride in our high numbers of female students and students who are the first in their family to go to college. NYU belongs to the Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC), which assists with dual-career searches, and our faculty are supported by a range of work-life balance programs provided by the NYU Office of Work Life

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