The University of Massachusetts Amherst is a leading institution in research computing, seeking a Research Fellow in research software engineering facilitation. This role involves providing software engineering services, contributing to user education initiatives, and developing strategies for open source projects in collaboration with the research community.
Responsibilities
- Provide research software engineering services and consulting for UMass Amherst and Unity researchers across subject areas. Topics include, but are not limited to, scientific software development, software development best practices, high performance computing workflow and pipeline guidance and troubleshooting, research software optimization, and data management
- Contribute to RCD’s user education initiatives and strategy, including research computing documentation, workshops, short courses, and asynchronous tutorials
- Work with the RCD leadership team to help develop strategies for leveraging and contributing to open source projects to solve cyberinfrastructure problems
- With mentorship from senior Research Computing & Data staff, build career and research skills in research computing, including facilitation, software development, and/or systems design and administration
- Other duties as assigned
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in a field with a significant research computing component plus experience with research or software development in a field with a significant research computing component
- Proficiency with Linux or Unix operating systems and command line
- Proficiency in at least one high-level programming language (e.g., Python, R, C, C++, Julia, Matlab)
- Ability to work well with the RCD team and the researchers we support under the supervision of a senior Research Computing & Data staff member
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including in verbal and written technical conversations
- Experience contributing to scientific or academic software engineering projects or public open source projects
- Expertise in a computational field or method, including, but not limited to, scientific software engineering, numerical methods, machine learning, or parallel and distributed computing
- Experience with a parallelization method (e.g., threading, CUDA or ROCm, MPI, OpenMP)
- Experience with high performance computing platforms and resource schedulers and managers (e.g., Slurm, PBS, HTCondor)
- Skills in high performance computing, research computing, or computational science
- Experience with facilitation or user support
- Informal or formal teaching experience, including peer tutoring or teaching assistantship
- Proficiency with version control, preferably git, and version control platforms like GitHub or GitLab
Company Overview
The University of Massachusetts Amherst is a public research university offering undergraduate, master's, and doctoral programs. It was founded in 1863, and is headquartered in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.umass.edu.Company H1B Sponsorship
University of Massachusetts Amherst has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 69 in 2025, 77 in 2024, 56 in 2023, 79 in 2022, 19 in 2021, 31 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.