Research Software Engineer III/IV

Research Software Engineer III/IV

UF Information Technology (UFIT) is seeking a professional-level Research Software Engineer to join Research Computing a unit within UFIT. The applicant is expected to work at locations across the campus to work closely with faculty and their research teams on software engineering in computational data processing and visualization and Artificial Intelligence (AI) projects in research and education. The final applicant will be considered at the level for which they qualify.

Employment with UFIT provides an excellent opportunity to work with other employees dedicated to and focused on understanding and interpreting the technological needs of the University of Floridas innovative and inspirational community. This position is in Gainesville FL with flexible work arrangements possible. It is not a remote position.

UF has been operating HiPerGator for close to a decade. It is the fastest supercomputer owned and operated by a university in the USA. HiPerGator has become a critical service for UF because of the growth of the community of researchers faculty students and collaborators that UFRC serves not only in size but also in the breadth of research domains. The workloads running on HiPerGator cover a wide range of research disciplines from physical science and engineering to medicine and drug discovery as well as business law arts and humanities. The demand for HiPerGators computing power to carry out research in foundational and use-inspired AI has also dramatically increased with UFs AI Initiative and the recent success of generative AI such as ChatGPT in all aspects of human activity.

The University of Florida is seeking people who are looking for an exciting career supporting the research performed by world-class faculty and their students and collaborators in their quest to solve the most challenging problems facing the world today. The people in these positions are part of a collaborative team that values innovative ideas and viewpoints and they will be expected to work closely in faculty-led teams in software engineering projects. This position will involve constant learning and professional development. If you think this environment is a match for you or an exciting challenge you are encouraged to use the cover letter to explain why you are a good fit.

Some key responsibilities of this position are:

• Learn by independent study reading textbooks and research papers and online training materials about problem domains in which work is needed.
• Design program document debug test deploy and maintain software for specific projects in possibly diverse scientific and scholarly domains.
• Follow best practices for software engineering and data science including cybersecurity.
• Often software to be developed will be open source new or a contribution to an existing tool library or framework.
• Act as consultant and mentor on software engineering principles for the project team you are part of for a given project.
• Contribute to papers and documentation to be produced as deliverable of the assigned project.
• Optimize code for performance and maintainability.
• Keep up to date on new developments in software engineering techniques and tools that could improve research outcomes.

Professional development opportunities:

• Learning the underlying science for the software you are developing with the project team.
• Access a community of professionals who are committed to operate excellent research computing support.
• Take training through various options ranging from workshops and online training certificates to semester-long courses and degrees.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor/Masters degree in computer science engineering sciences or related computational field is required.
• Solid coding skills and good experience with advanced programming languages like C/C Python Fortran Scala.
• Experience with building interactive web-based applications for data visualization and data processing workflows
• Familiarity with high-performance computing (HPC) systems including GPUs and programming such as using CUDA MPI AI/ML/DL and advanced debuggers and performance analyzers.
• Familiarity with working on open-source projects.

About UF Information Technology

Led byVice President and CIO Elias Eldayrie the eight departments comprising UFIT are: Academic Technology; Applications Development and Integrations; Business Center; Customer Experience and Resource Planning; Data Platform and Analytics; Information Security Office; Infrastructure and Communication Technology; and Research Computing. UF Information Technology (UFIT) enables teaching learning research and service on campus and across the region with state-of-the-art enterprise IT systems including SEC and SUS universities and the opportunity to teach using HiPerGator. For more information about UFIT and its goals and governance visithttps:// more about UFIT at and @GoGatorsUFIT.

About the University of Florida

One of Americas all-around best universities the University of Florida drives future-making education eye-opening discoveries life-saving health care and community-building collaboration for our state our nation and our world. UF is in Gainesville a city of approximately 150000 residents in North-Central Florida 50 miles from Floridas West Coast 67 miles from the Atlantic Ocean and within a 2-hour drive to large metropolitan areas (Orlando Tampa Jacksonville). The beautiful climate and extensive nearby parks and recreational areas afford year-round outdoor activities including hiking biking and nature photography. UFs large college sports programs museums and performing arts center support various activities and cultural events for residents to enjoy. Learn more about what Gainesville has to offer atVisit Gainesville.

Benefits
UF provides various leave programs based on an employees salary plan including vacation sick leave holidays personal leave days and paid family leave. In addition to paid time off the University of Florida offers a very competitive benefits package.