Research Software Engineer: AI, HPC & Open-Source

1000scholars; Newark (DE); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Delaware invites applications for a Research Software Engineer to join the NSF HAIC initiative. You will build, validate, and maintain scalable, open-source software and cyberinfrastructure to support AI, ML, and multimodal data processing across UD and partner institutions.

Responsibilities include enabling reproducible research, interfacing with real-time systems, and guiding researchers in software engineering best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical/computer engineering, data science, statistics, or a related field with 5 years of related work experience.
• Master’s or PhD is preferred for advanced research software development roles.
• Experience with Linux, command line interfaces, and scripting (Bash, Python).
• Hands-on with SLURM and shared HPC environments; version control with Git.
• Ability to collaborate with researchers across disciplines and communicate clearly.

Responsibilities

• Participate in a highly technical team supporting HAIC research software.
• Develop, deploy, and scale workflows on HPC resources for AI and data science.
• Maintain documentation, version control, and open-source repositories.
• Assist in hardware/software procurement, setup, and testing.
• Translate software and models for deployment in various settings.
• Educate researchers on software engineering practices and HPC usage.

Skills

Python

Bash

Git

SLURM

Linux

C++

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/engineering/math/physics

Master's or PhD preferred

Tools

NVIDIA CUDA

Open source workflows

GitHub/GitLab

Job description

The University of Delaware invites applications for a Research Software Engineer to join the NSF HAIC initiative. You will build, validate, and maintain scalable, open-source software and cyberinfrastructure to support AI, ML, and multimodal data processing across UD and partner institutions.

Responsibilities include enabling reproducible research, interfacing with real-time systems, and guiding researchers in software engineering best practices.