Job Description

The Application Development and User Access Group develops and maintains large software applications and tools used by the staff and users of the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) computational ecosystem.

Purpose

We are seeking to add an experience Software Engineer to our team, to write internal software applications to support the world-class supercomputers maintained by the division.

Major Duties/Responsibilities

Design, code, test, and document web-based services and APIs in multiple languages (e.g. Ruby, Go, Python, JavaScript) that support the mission of the NCCS and its end-users.
Interact with NCCS staff and managers to gather custom software requirements and new feature requests.
Contribute to architectural decisions related to new continuous integration features and techniques.
Participate in code reviews with the group's development team.

Basic Qualifications

A Bachelor’s degree Computer Science/Engineering or in a STEM field with a computing focus.
A minimum of 5 years of experience working in a software engineering/development role.

Preferred Qualifications

8+ years of experience working in a software engineering/development role.
Experience writing software applications in at least one of the following programming languages: Ruby, Python, Go, and/or JavaScript.
Experience with web application development using one or more open-source frameworks (e.g. Rails, Vue.js).
Experience with continuous integration technologies (e.g. GitLab CI/CD Pipelines, GitLab Runner).
Experience using SQL database technologies (e.g. MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL) to manage large datasets (hundreds of GB; billions of records).
An online portfolio of open-source software contributions (e.g. GitHub, BitBucket).
Experience working collaboratively in a team environment.
Experience leading software development projects.

Valid through: 3/11/2021

About Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is an American multiprogram science and technology national laboratory sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and administered, managed, and operated by UT–Battelle as a federally funded research and development center under a contract with the DOE. Established in 1942, ORNL is the largest science and energy national laboratory in the Department of Energy system and third largest by annual budget. ORNL is located in the Roane County section of the city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. ORNL's scientific programs focus on materials, neutron science, energy, high-performance computing, systems biology and national security. ORNL partners with the state of Tennessee, universities and industries, to solve challenges in energy, advanced materials, manufacturing, security and physics. The laboratory has several of the world's top supercomputers; among these, Summit is ranked by the TOP500 as the world's second-most powerful supercomputer. The lab also is a leading neutron-science and nuclear-energy research facility that includes the Spallation Neutron Source and High Flux Isotope Reactor. ORNL hosts all of the following: Oak Ridge National Laboratory is managed by UT–Battelle, a limited liability partnership between the University of Tennessee and the Battelle Memorial Institute, formed in 2000 for that purpose. The annual budget is US$1.65 billion, 80% of which is from the Department of Energy; the remainder is from various sources paying for use of the facilities. As of 2012 there are 4,400 staff working at ORNL, 1,600 of whom are directly conducting research, and an additional 3,000 guest researchers annually.

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