Senior Scientific Software Engineer — HPC Modeling & Linux

Re-Spec-Inc; Albuquerque (NM); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Work Schedules

401(k) & ESOP (with company match up 4

Professional Development & Training

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Assistance Program

Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance

Job summary

RESPEC is seeking a Senior Scientific Software Engineer to support scientific computing for a large National Laboratory. You'll 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.

You'll work on legacy systems, refactor for portability, and ensure quality practices, testing, and reproducible builds while adhering to NQA-1 requirements.

Qualifications

• Master's degree and at least 5 years of relevant experience or Bachelor's with 10+ years.
• Experience in computational modeling and software development in regulated, high-consequence environments.
• Ability to describe environment, tasks, responsibilities, and deliverables, and explain why work was high-consequence.

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 Nuclear Quality Assurance (NQA-1) requirements.

Skills

Fortran

Python

C/C++

GNU/Linux

HPC/Job schedulers

Bash

Git

Doxygen

MPI (OpenMPI/MPICH)

Profiling & debugging

Education

Master's degree in CS/Engineering or related

Bachelor's degree in related discipline

Tools

Doxygen

Git

Job description

RESPEC is seeking a Senior Scientific Software Engineer to support scientific computing for a large National Laboratory. You'll 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.

You'll work on legacy systems, refactor for portability, and ensure quality practices, testing, and reproducible builds while adhering to NQA-1 requirements.