Computational Software Engineer

Riverside Research's Applied Mathematics and Physics Solutions group is seeking a Computational Software Engineer, Scientific Programmer to support development of high-performance large scale scientific simulation codes. The candidate will implement and test new techniques that advance the state-of-the-art in defense industry computational electromagnetic (CEM) tools. Work will be performed in collaboration with a diverse team, with backgrounds in CEM, physics, computer science, electrical engineering, applied mathematics, and high-performance computing (HPC) at our facilities in Ohio (Dayton), New York (NYC), and Illinois (Champaign).

Candidate can work in either our facilities in Dayton, OH, Champaign, IL or New York, NY.

Supports all aspects of the software development lifecycle from requirements, design, development, documentation, testing (validation and verification) and debugging efficient scientific software applications

• Maintains code quality by participating in peer reviews of software and helping develop unit tests, verification and validation test plans, and performing validation and verification

• Applies new methods, algorithms, or processes, and evaluates and communicates conclusions

• Assists in establishing and maintaining standards and best practices for software development

• Evaluates new industry standards and best practices for suitable adoption

• Becomes a subject matter expert in computational methods, software engineering, high performance computing, applied mathematics/physics, and/or modeling and simulation

• Other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications:

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance

• Education and Experience:

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computational Science or closely related field with software development experience

• Bachelor's with 3+ years of experience, or

• Master's with 0+ years of experience

• Relevant years of experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree.

• Some programming experience with low-level languages like C, C++ and/or Fortran

• Familiarity with software development on and for Linux or other Unix-like systems

• Familiarity with Python, Unix shell scripting and similar languages

• Familiarity with version control software applications

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with a team

• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills, written and verbal

• Willingness to learn and perform other duties as assigned

• Ability to travel (less than 10%)

Desired Qualifications:

• Active Security Clearance, TS/SCI(with poly preferred)

• Experience working collaboratively on software development

• Experience with the full software development lifecycle (SDLC)

• Experience with parallel programming on high-performance computers (MPI and/or OpenMP)

• Experience developing cross-platform (Windows and Linux) software

• Additional STEM degree in physics, electrical engineering, or applied mathematics or experience developing software for scientific applications

• Familiarity with linear algebra and numerical solutions techniques or numerical algorithms

• Familiarity with electromagnetic wave theory