Senior Research Software Engineer

New York University Tisch School of the Arts

Senior Research Software Engineer designing and maintaining software solutions for NYU researchers and instructors. Collaborating with IT teams to align software infrastructure investments with research needs.

Posted 6/18/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $149,000 - $169,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaScriptKubernetesNode.jsPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, develop, and maintain software and application solutions for NYU researchers and instructors.
Assist in collecting computational requirements and implementing appropriate software solutions.
Provide targeted consulting to faculty and research teams aimed at improving competitiveness of extramural funding proposals.
Collaborate with NYU IT teams to align operation and configuration of research infrastructure investments.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Master's Degree in Computer Science, Physics, Engineering, or related field or equivalent work experience.
5+ years of experience working with software engineering.
Programming experience in high-level languages such as Python, Go, node.js.
Experience with databases, web frontend and backend components.
Experience with software packaging and distribution (e.g. on pypi).
Fluency with git and GitHub.
Experience with a wide range of computing environments such as cloud, and HPC.
Excellent interpersonal communication, presentation and written and verbal communication skills, including documentation and customer support.
Preferred: 5+ years of work experience as a software engineer in an academic or research setting.
Experience designing, building, and deploying containers or applications on kubernetes in public cloud providers (e.g. AWS, GCP).
Experience with designing, building, and deploying containers in an HPC environment.
Experience developing GenAI applications.
A record of successes in programming, architecting, deploying, and systems that are used or have produced concrete results.
Experience working in an academic research environment.

Benefits

Comp & perks

NYU aims to be among the greenest urban campuses in the country and carbon neutral by 2040.

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonGonode.jsdatabasessoftware packaginggitGitHubcloud computingHPCGenAI applications

Soft Skills

interpersonal communicationpresentation skillswritten communicationverbal communicationdocumentationcustomer support

Certifications

Master's Degree in Computer ScienceMaster's Degree in PhysicsMaster's Degree in Engineering