Inside Higher Ed · 1 week ago
Scientific Software Engineer with UI/UX (Data Science and AI Institute)
Baltimore, MD
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
5+ years expThe Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute (DSAI) is seeking a dynamic individual for the position of Scientific Software Engineer with UI/UX. This role focuses on user interface and user experience design and development, contributing to the advancement of novel open-source scientific software and collaborating on cutting-edge research projects.
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Responsibilities
Designing and building innovative UI/UX solutions for DSAI projects in collaboration with software engineers, AI/ML engineers, data scientists, scientific subject matter experts and users
Interfacing web applications with AI/ML models using the latest deep neural network (DNN) libraries trained on state-of-the-art hardware
Working with data scientists to develop web applications for analyzing massive data sets, either in the cloud or on premises, and developing software pipelines for real-time high-frequency data processing workflows
Working closely with internal and external stakeholders to understand interface and backend server needs, envisioning solutions, and developing wireframes, prototypes and functional requirements
Developing application back-end servers, databases and APIs
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in a Quantitative Discipline, such as Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Bioinformatics or similar
Strong scientific literacy and curiosity, ability to continually adapt to new scientific domains and problems and identify and articulate scientifically informed UI/UX and data visualization approaches
Five or more years front and back-end software development experience in the following areas
Front-end JavaScript web application development, HTML, CSS and TypeScript
Multiple modern JavaScript application frameworks such as Node.js, React, Angular, Backbone, Svelte and Vue
Experience in developing and integrating web services in Python using frameworks such as FastAPI, Starlette, Django and Flask
Experience in developing and integrating backend application databases such as Postgres, MySQL and SQLite
Additional education may substitute for required experience, and additional related experience may substitute for required education beyond a high school diploma/graduation equivalent, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula
Preferred
Master's Degree in a quantitative discipline
Seven or more years of experience in the above areas
Experience with advanced web-based computer graphics techniques and libraries such as D3.js and similar
Experience designing and developing advanced scientific data visualizations
Benefits
Johns Hopkins offers a total rewards package that supports our employees' health, life, career and retirement.
Johns Hopkins University requires all faculty, staff, and students to receive the seasonal flu vaccine.
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