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Convergent Research · 4 hours ago

Research Software Engineer

Boulder, CO

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

$120K/yr - $180K/yr

3+ years exp

Convergent Research is a Focused Research Organization that develops science-backed tools for Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV). They are seeking an experienced scientific software engineer to contribute to their open-source toolkit, C-Star, which aims to streamline the process of running large ocean models.

BiotechnologyLife ScienceNon Profit

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Design, build, & maintain C-Star software components alongside a multidisciplinary team

Quickly generate working software prototypes to address emerging needs, and later harden those prototypes into production-grade software

Independently execute on medium-sized projects, keeping a focus on high-level goals while maintaining flexibility to diagnose and solve problems as they arise

Assist fellow developers via code reviews, design discussions, and testing

Support internal and external users via issue review, troubleshooting, tutorials, requirement-gathering, and documentation

Qualification

PythonHPC environmentsData engineeringScientific datasetsWorkflow managementNumerical modelingAgile methodologiesProblem-solvingCritical thinkingTeam collaboration

Required

Bachelor's, Master's, Doctorate degree, or equivalent work experience in a technical field (e.g., oceanography, atmospheric science, physical science, computer science)

Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills; ability to understand both scientific and software systems, and tackle abstract problems in the overlap between them

3+ years of experience writing clean, maintainable, object-oriented software in Python

Experience working with multi-dimensional scientific datasets in Python (e.g., netcdf/zarr formats and Pangeo libraries, particularly xarray, numpy, and scipy)

Experience working in interdisciplinary teams and translating scientific requirements into software specifications

Preferred

Exposure or experience building and running gridded numerical models (especially ocean models)

Experience with HPC/supercomputer environments (SLURM, MPI, performant file systems)

Experience with a workflow management package such as Prefect or Airflow

Scientific background in physical or biogeochemical oceanography

Exposure to agile/scrum methodologies; demonstrated ability to focus on objectives and iterate towards solutions

Expertise in TB/PB-scale data engineering

Ability to read and debug FORTRAN

Experience with containerization frameworks such as Apptainer/Singularity or Podman/Docker

Knowledge of data versioning, logging, and audit trails

Experience with performant numerical Python techniques and libraries, such as Dask, Numba, and asyncio

Experience working with cloud-based storage and compute systems, ideally for large, multi-node computations

Company

Convergent Research

Convergent Research is a focused research organization for conducting non-profit science projects and research.

Founded in 2021

Palo Alto, California, USA

51-200 employees

https://www.convergentresearch.org/

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