Research Software Engineer for Scientific Data & Workflows

Johns Hopkins University; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Johns Hopkins University invites applications for a PREP Research Associate to support a collaborative scientific software project with NIST. You will design, expand, and deploy database layouts, and develop prototype code to ensure long-term maintainability and performance.

You will build user-friendly features for data input and display, and create robust data pipelines and documentation for scientists and developers.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in software engineering, computer science, information technology, a STEM field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS, SASS, and JavaScript for user-facing layouts and behavior.
• Proficiency in server-side languages/runtimes (Node.js and PHP), plus database management (MongoDB).
• Proficiency in version control systems like Git, API integration, responsive design, and debugging/testing procedures.
• Proficiency in Linux-based file systems and programming.
• Experience building data pipelines and reproducible workflows.
• Library and API design, release management, documentation for scientific users and developers, automated testing and CI, code review and maintainability.
• Ability to work with researchers adopting modern collaborative software development workflows (git-based collaboration, issue tracking).
• Experience creating tutorials, examples, API documentation, or other user-facing materials for scientific software.

Responsibilities

• Design, expand, and deploy to an existing scientific database layout supporting active research and internal NIST datasets.
• Develop, refactor, profile, test, and package prototype code for long-term maintainability and performance.
• Develop new user-friendly features based around data input forms and display of data for an existing reference material dataset website.
• Develop features to store, retrieve, and manage files related to the data records.

Skills

HTML/CSS/JS

Node.js

PHP

MongoDB

Git

Linux

Data pipelines

API design

CI/CD

Scientific software

Education

Master's degree in software engineering or CS

Tools

Git

MongoDB

Job description

Johns Hopkins University invites applications for a PREP Research Associate to support a collaborative scientific software project with NIST. You will design, expand, and deploy database layouts, and develop prototype code to ensure long-term maintainability and performance.

You will build user-friendly features for data input and display, and create robust data pipelines and documentation for scientists and developers.