Research Software Engineer – AI, HPC & Open-Source Tools

University of Delaware; Newark (DE); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Delaware invites applications for a Research Software Engineer (RSE) to join the NSF AI Institute for Human-AI Cooperation (HAIC). The RSE will develop, validate, and maintain scalable software and cyberinfrastructure to support interdisciplinary AI research.

You will collaborate with UD and partner institutions, leverage HPC systems like HiPerGator, and help translate AI models for deployment across platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field and five years of related work experience; advanced degree preferred.
• Experience with Linux and command line, plus Bash and Python scripting.
• Hands-on with HPC environments and SLURM workload scheduling.
• Strong version control experience and open source contributions.
• Ability to collaborate with multi-institutional researchers and communicate clearly.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; strong organizational ability.

Responsibilities

• Participate as a member of a technical research team across multidisciplinary groups.
• Support researchers in using HPC hardware and software for AI, data science, ML, and physics simulation.
• Develop, deploy, and optimize workflows on HPC resources for scalable research.
• Maintain software pipelines, docs, and public repositories to enable reproducible research.
• Help select hardware and cyberinfrastructure for different research stages and deployment.
• Translate software/models toward deployment across various platforms.
• Serve as a computational liaison to UD and partner IT groups.
• Educate researchers on software engineering practices and HPC environments.
• Broaden engagement between HAIC and the cyberinfrastructure user community.

Skills

Linux

Bash

Python

SLURM

Git

Communication

Project management

Interpersonal skills

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical and computer engineering, data science, statistics, biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, operations research, robotics, computational neuroscience, applied mathematics, physics, or closely related field

Five years of related work experience; Master’s or PhD preferred

Tools

NVIDIA Omniverse

CUDA Toolkit

Isaac Sim

GitHub / version control

High-performance computing (HPC) environments

Job description

The University of Delaware invites applications for a Research Software Engineer (RSE) to join the NSF AI Institute for Human-AI Cooperation (HAIC). The RSE will develop, validate, and maintain scalable software and cyberinfrastructure to support interdisciplinary AI research.

You will collaborate with UD and partner institutions, leverage HPC systems like HiPerGator, and help translate AI models for deployment across platforms.