Life Sciences Research Software Engineer — Open Science Impact
Netherlands eScience Center
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Job summary
The Netherlands eScience Center is seeking a Research Software Engineer to contribute to the Research Software Sustainability Programme. You will work on multiple projects under RSSP, focusing on software engineering, documentation, and community-building to enhance sustainability of research software.
You will join a multidisciplinary team that values open science, collaboration, and reproducibility, with a start window in early 2027.
Qualifications
- Master's degree or higher in Life Sciences, Computational Science, Computer Science or related field.
- Proven experience in developing research software, methodologies, or open-source frameworks for research purposes.
- Experience with computational research in the life sciences and bringing research software to a robust, maintainable state.
- Familiarity with scientific workflows, data processing pipelines, and related domains such as bioimaging, biomedical data science, or omics.
Responsibilities
- Refactor, modularise, and improve test coverage and packaging of research software.
- Create and maintain documentation, tutorials, and onboarding materials; contribute to training.
- Engage in community-building activities, boost adoption, extend contributor base, or help set up governance structures.
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Job description
The Netherlands eScience Center is seeking a Research Software Engineer to contribute to the Research Software Sustainability Programme. You will work on multiple projects under RSSP, focusing on software engineering, documentation, and community-building to enhance sustainability of research software.
You will join a multidisciplinary team that values open science, collaboration, and reproducibility, with a start window in early 2027.
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