Software Researcher III

Open Date 10/31/2025

Requisition Number PRN
43468B

Job Title Software Researchers

Working Title Software Researcher I through III

Career Progression Track P00

Track Level

FLSA Code Computer Employee

Patient Sensitive Job Code? No

Standard Hours per Week 40

Full Time or Part Time? Full Time

Shift Day

Work Schedule Summary

VP Area Academic Affairs

Department 00810 - Scient Comp & Imag Instit-Oper

Location Campus

City Salt Lake City, UT

Type of Recruitment External Posting

Pay Rate Range 60,000 to 130,000

Close Date 01/31/2026

Priority Review Date (Note - Posting may close at any time)

Job Summary

We are looking for highly talented developers with experience and interest in state‑of‑the‑art technologies, high performance computing (HPC), memory management, and dev‑ops. You will enjoy being part of a world‑renowned research institute and work closely with PhD students, Post Docs, software engineers and faculty members on developing cutting‑edge AI‑ready data management.

We’re working on extending and maintaining the Data Spaces () project – a high‑performance distributed data management framework designed for in‑memory data staging and coordination in scientific workflows. Our use case spans multi‑node HPC environments, and data‑intensive applications requiring real‑time interaction, streaming, and integration with custom pipelines.

We’re seeking a Research Software Engineer (RSE) who can contribute directly to the core of Dataspaces (written in C/C++) and support the integration and deployment efforts including containerization, automation, and system‑level optimizations.

Please contact Jess Tate (jessh.edu) for further information.

The SCI Institute

The SCI Institute is a world‑class research institute located within the new Warnock Engineering Building on the University of Utah campus. We are a highly dynamic, driven group of over 170 faculty, staff, and students. The overarching goals of the SCI Institute’s scientific computing research are to create new techniques, tools, and systems, by which scientists may solve problems affecting various aspects of human life.

We believe that to advance the state‑of‑the‑art and create meaningful computational solutions for such complex systems, one needs to advance research in a number of areas within scientific computing, including: visualization, simulation, and modeling. The SCI Institute presents a highly challenging, collaborative work environment that can be deeply rewarding for the right individual. Further information is available at http://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

Opportunities for Professional Development

Through the Cyberinfrastructure Professionals (CIP) Cooperative (Co‑Op) at the SCI Institute, the successful candidate will access a community of research computing and data experts working together to support and sustain SCI’s world‑class research efforts. The SCI’s CIPs perform a wide range of advanced services, positively impacting research outcomes and researcher productivity and fostering the growing SCI research enterprise. The Co‑Op provides faculty and CIP with a stable work environment with opportunities for mentoring and growth whereby development, communication, training, and planning efforts can be coordinated seamlessly across the various research projects ’s CIPs provide high‑quality and reliable software supporting SCI research projects.

The Co‑Op provides a stable lifecycle for software and data projects, maintains an efficient development process, and creates a community whereby CIP and research projects will continue to thrive.

Work Environment

• You will be contributing to cutting‑edge computational methods for HPC, edge computing, and memory management.
• We offer flexible working hours.
• We offer professional career development opportunities.
• The University of Utah offers a very competitive benefits package.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and wellness coverage https:// wellness.php
• Automatic and immediately vested 14.2% employer contribution https:///retire
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• Free public transportation pass /…