Simons Foundation
Software and Infrastructure Engineer
162 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY · Mid · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$150k-$175kDetected 21 days ago
PythonJavaGoC++C#Distributed SystemsGitAWSGCPCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesLinuxMachine LearningPyTorchLoad TestingBioinformaticsResearch
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About the role
- The Scientific Computing Core (SCC) is the technical backbone of the Flatiron Institute.
- We are seeking a Software and Infrastructure Engineer who is passionate about technology, innovation, and science to join the team in maintaining and growing Flatiron's research computing resources.
- This is a full-time position based in Simons Foundation's offices in New York City.
Responsibilities
- Develop, deploy and maintain software, services and tools that support scientific computing and data-intensive research.
- Support and troubleshoot scientific applications and workflows across Linux, cloud, containerized and distributed computing environments.
- Diagnose performance, reliability and resource-utilization issues and optimize computational workloads.
- Develop automation, APIs and operational tools that improve deployment, monitoring and efficiency.
- Collaborate across scientific, software engineering and infrastructure teams and contribute to documentation and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, computational science, mathematics, physics, neuroscience, biology or a related technical or scientific field, or equivalent professional experience.
- 2 to 5 years of professional software engineering, cloud engineering, research computing, scientific computing or related experience.
- Strong programming experience in Python and experience with one or more additional languages such as Go, Java, C++, C# or similar.
- Experience with cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure.
- Experience with containers and containerized application environments, including Docker
- familiarity with Kubernetes or similar orchestration technologies is highly desirable.
- Experience diagnosing software and infrastructure problems across applications, services, operating systems, networks or computing environments.
- Experience with performance analysis, resource utilization, reliability or optimization of production or computational workloads.
- Perform other duties or tasks as assigned or required.
Skills
- Work with scientists to translate research requirements into practical software, cloud and infrastructure solutions.
- Evaluate and adopt appropriate emerging technologies for scientific applications.
- Related Skills & Other Requirements
- Software Engineering Skills
Compensation
- The full-time annual compensation range for this position is $150,000-$175,000 depending on experience.
Benefits
- In addition to competitive salaries, the Simons Foundation provides employees with an outstanding benefits package.
- Support reproducible scientific workflows involving large datasets, machine learning, GPUs or other advanced computing technologies.
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