Software Developer: Scientific Applications

The Software Developer participates in the development of scientific applications involving GUIs, 2-D and 3-D graphics, and numerical algorithms, and may lead development efforts for some projects or sub-projects. This position requires some interaction with clients.

Desired Skills and Capabilities

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or other scientific or engineering field is required. M.S. or Ph.D. is preferred.
• Minimum 2 years of technical lead or development experience; 4 or more years is preferred.
• Ability to understand a problem domain and then conceive of and implement an intuitive user interface geared toward scientist users.
• Discipline, pride, and professionalism to write readable, documented, and unit-tested code that serves as an example to others who later study your work.
• Strong work ethic and commitment to satisfying the customer. The following are not all required, but all are helpful.
• Experience with Python, and a strong understanding of how to apply its capabilities to develop GUI frameworks and scientific applications.
• Demonstrable commitment to designing and developing facile and elegant GUIs.
• Strong understanding of statistics and optimization.
• Experience with the following:
  • GUI frameworks such as NetBeans or Eclipse
  • wxPython
  • Low-level 2-D graphics APIs such as Quartz or GDI+
  • 3-D graphics, preferably using VTK
  • Developing or working with plotting APIs
  • Experience using (and interest in contributing to) SciPy
  • Numeric algorithms