Postdoctoral Artificial Intelligence Research Software Engineer
About this role
Aalto University is looking for an
Postdoctoral Artificial Intelligence Research Software Engineer
to a postdoctoral-level position. The desired start dates would be as soon as possible in 2026.
Are you more of a programmer than your researcher colleagues? Are you more of a researcher than commercial developers? Do you want a career that involves research and science but isn't the academic tenure track? The Academic Research Software Engineer position is your next step on that path.
This position will be similar to a postdoc, but with an emphasis on research infrastructure, HPC,and engineering rather than preparation for an academic career path. You will be involved in research, but more focused on learning and improving how computing, workflows, and data are used in research than finding your own novel research results and publishing them.
You will work with research groups and be affiliated with Aalto Scientific Computing (ASC). You'll serve as an intermediary between the two. Compared to the staff of ASC, you will be directly working within research groups, much more involved in day-to-day research, follow projects for a much longer period, and more involved in publications. Compared to a typical academic position, you will have a joint affiliation with ASC and get extra training in research engineering. There will be less emphasis on novel results for the sake of novelty, and more on applying and developing best practices in the way the research is done.
In this position, you will:
Serve as the local research software engineer for your research group(s) and improve the use of computing among all group members.
Stay up to date with the latest HPC, AI, and general computing/data management practices, evaluate latest developments, and implement whatever is most suitable.
Possibility to take part in publications as a research engineer.
Provide one-on-one and group research support from a software, programming, Linux, data, and infrastructure perspective