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ID #49596841
State California
City Santamonica
Job type Permanent
Salary USD TBD TBD
Source RAND Corporation
Showed 2023-03-31
Date 2023-03-30
Deadline 2023-05-29
Category Et cetera
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Research Software Engineer (Entry Level)

California, Santamonica, 90401 Santamonica USA

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Job Type: Regular

Position Description

Research Software Engineers at the RAND Corporation work in a multidisciplinary environment in support of research on a wide range of issues spanning health care, education and labor, social and economic well-being, national security, and military manpower. Research Software Engineers work closely with research staff in creating and managing applications to support research projects. Research Software Engineers are expected to acquire an understanding of the research topic and apply their programming and analytic skills to the research needs.

The position requires gathering requirements from users, designing software products with researchers, implementing designs in code, and iterating with users and researchers to ensure functional and quality requirements are met. The selected candidate will work on project teams of research staff and domain experts and must be comfortable acting as part of a small team of software engineers. Technical needs will vary by project so the selected candidate must be a generalist interested in gaining experience in more than one of the following application paradigms: web, mobile, desktop, database, modeling & simulation, and data analytics such as machine learning, statistical analysis, or visualization.

Responsibilities:
  • Proactive communication with project teams, including explaining software design, software development progress, and software tool results
  • Some of the following tasks:
    • Developing in part interactive applications including the graphical user interface, back-end server components, and/or databases
    • Developing applications or scripts to data mine, analyze, and visualize data sets, often developing expertise in that data
    • Providing technical inputs into computer programming and software integration, software transition/migration and software management activities
    • Limited participation in software development QA activities
    • Writing documentation of software and software tool results for inclusion in client briefings and RAND publications

Qualifications

Required
  • Experience with any of the following programming languages:
    • Web programming languages (e.g. JavaScript)
    • Database platforms (e.g. MongoDB, PostgreSQL)
    • Data analysis languages (e.g. R, Julia)
    • General programming languages (e.g. Java, Python, C)
  • Willingness to pick up new tools and technologies on a frequent basis
  • Some experience with software testing, including unit, integration, and/or acceptance testing
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Works best as part of a collaborative, multi-disciplinary team

Preferred
  • Experience working in a research environment
  • Experience with any of the following:
    • Web application development
    • UI/UX Design
    • Modeling and Simulation
    • Cloud service providers like AWS or Azure and tools in those ecosystems
    • Big data analytic platforms like Hadoop or Spark

Education Requirements

BA/BS required, MA/MS preferred, preferably in computer science or highly related field such as information systems, computer engineering, etc.

Experience

2 years minimum relevant experience required.

Security Clearance

Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance is preferred.

Writing Sample/Coding Sample Required

Applicants will be required to provide Code sample(s) -related work uploaded as a writing sample.

Location

Santa Monica, CA; Pittsburgh, PA; Washington DC; Boston, MA

Salary Range

Level I: $71,000 - $105,400

RAND considers a variety of factors when formulating an offer, including but not limited to, the specific role and associated responsibilities; a candidate's work experience, education/training, skills, expertise; and internal equity. This position is eligible for overtime. In addition, RAND provides strong benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, paid time-off and more.

Equal Opportunity Employer: race/color/religion/sex/sexual orientation/gender identity/national origin/disability/vet

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