Research Software Engineer
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Research Software Engineer -
Location: Gaithersburg (USA)
ABOUT ASTRAZENECA
AstraZeneca is a global innovation-driven biopharmaceutical business that focuses on the discovery development and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the worlds most serious diseases. But were more than one of the worlds leading pharmaceutical companies. At AstraZeneca were proud to have a unique workplace culture that inspires innovation and collaboration. Here employees are empowered to express diverse perspectives and are made to feel valued energised and rewarded for their ideas and creativity.
ABOUT OUR RESEARCH DATA AND ANALYTICS TEAM
The Research Data & Analytics Team within R&D IT is a global team of highly experienced skilled data and AI engineers and professionals passionate about delivering innovative services and products. The mission of our team is to transform the way the R&D discovers and develops medicine through data analytics and AI. To achieve this we partner with scientific teams to deliver ground-breaking capabilities products and platforms that enable scientists to accelerate medicines that are safe and effective for patients.
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING PLATFORM
The Scientific Computing platform (SCP) is a foundational capability for HPC and scaled research computing solutions. Embedded within the Research D&A organisation it is central to analytics products focused on computational chemistry imaging multi-OMICs structural biology data science and AI.
We are accountable for the end-to-end delivery of high-performance analytics products with an emphasis on augmenting the HPC experience. We combine modern HPC with a powerful DevOps stack and cloud-native technologies to power research and development at AstraZeneca.
ROLE PURPOSE
The Research Software Engineering (RSE) role provides scientific and technical software support to scientists and software developers across AstraZeneca
You will collaborate with research colleagues and provide expert knowledge and skills to help them develop improve maintain and support high quality software solutions fulfilling the requirements of research projects. You will help grow the knowledge and skills within the research community at all stages of the research software development cycle (e.g. by providing hands-on technical training coaching sessions and promoting the adoption of standard processes).
Key Accountabilities
Provide deep research software engineering expertise to assist users in developing optimising and debugging their workflows and applications
Ensure that such work is well documented and results published to the internal research community for maximum reusability
Promote best practices for software sustainability and scientific reproducibility within the company
Present at internal and external seminars on research software engineering topics
Assist with developing an active user community to share learning
Work with the rest of the team to ensure that software development tools are suitable for the needs of the research community
Develop and deliver technical training and coaching materials
Essential Knowledge Skills and Experience
Experience in using and developing research software to produce research outputs
Significant experience in developing research software in one or more of: Python R C/C Java Go and including knowledge of advanced parallel and accelerated computing frameworks including MPI and CUDA.
Knowledge of and commitment to best practices in software engineering including documentation version control and unit testing
Strong inter-personal skills with the ability to adapt communication to users at different technical levels
Proven troubleshooting expertise and deep investigation analysis of research computing problems
Desirable Skills and Knowledge
Scientific degree and/or experience in computationally intensive analysis of scientific data
Experience with build automation and continuous integration
Experience in designing and delivering training courses
Previous experience in high performance computing (HPC) environments especially at large scales (>10000 cores)
Experience with workflow engines (e.g Nextflow Cromwell)
Expertise in specific scientific domains relevant to early drug development such as deep learning medical imaging molecular dynamics or omics.
Experience with working in GxP-validated environments
ITIL certification
Plus some of the following areas of experience:
Experience administering and optimising a HPC job scheduler (e.g. SLURM)
Experience with configuration automation and infrastructure as code (e.g. Ansible Hashicorp Terraform AWS CloudFormation Amazon Cloud Developer Kit)
Experience deploying infrastructure and code to public cloud especially AWS
Hands-on experience working in a DevOps team and using agile methodologies
Date Posted
22-May-2025Closing Date
Our mission is to build an inclusive and equitable environment. We want people to feel they belong at AstraZeneca and Alexion starting with our recruitment process. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates regardless of characteristics. We offer reasonable adjustments/accommodations to help all candidates to perform at their best. If you have a need for any adjustments/accommodations please complete the section in the application form.Employment Type
Full-Time
