Senior Scientific Software Engineer (Fed Gov)

RESPEC is seeking a Senior Scientific Software Engineer to support scientific computing work for a large  National Laboratory. Youll help sustain and modernize computational modeling software used in a high-consequence environment with a focus on reliable maintainable code and performance on Linux and HPC systems.

Core Responsibilities

• Sustain analyze and modernize scientific software including legacy systems.
• Refactor code to improve portability efficiency maintainability and stability.
• Support computational modeling across conceptual process and numerical models.
• Debug profile benchmark and assess software performance and scalability.
• Support Linux development HPC workflows and job-scheduler use.
• Apply software quality practices testing and verification and validation.
• Document source code technical debt risks and software workflows.
• Support reproducible builds scientific data workflows and migration readiness.
• Perform work in accordance with applicable Nuclear Quality Assurance (NQA-1) requirements.

Qualifications :

Required Technical Experience

• Masters degree in computer science engineering or a related discipline such as environmental science mathematics or physics and at least 5 years of relevant experience in computational modeling software development and documentation; or
• Bachelors degree in a related discipline and at least 10 years of relevant experience.

Recent project experience

• At least one project within the 5 years preceding the response deadline involving both computational modeling and software development in a regulated safety-critical high-consequence or equivalent mission-critical environment.
• Ability to describe the projects environment tasks responsibilities and deliverables and explain why the work was high-consequence or mission-critical.

Technical skills

• Scientific programming with Fortran Python and C and/or C.
• GNU/Linux or equivalent development environments including build compilation and debugging toolchains.
• HPC systems and job schedulers such as Slurm or equivalent.
• Bash or equivalent Unix/Linux shell scripting.
• Software quality practices testing and scientific data formats and workflows.
• Debugging profiling performance analysis and legacy-code modernization.
• Git or equivalent version control and reproducible builds.
• Source-code documentation tools such as Doxygen or equivalent.
• Python 2 and Python 3
• C and C
• OpenMPI MPICH or Intel MPI
• Serial and parallel scientific codes

Additional Information :

Featured benefits:

• Flexible Work Schedules
• Paid Parental Leave
• 401(k) & ESOP (with company match up to 4%)
• Professional Development and Training
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program
• Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance Plans

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time