Senior Research Engineer, Modeling Technology – Global Health

Senior Research Engineer, Modeling Technology – Global Health### Senior Research Engineer, Modeling Technology – Global Health Apply:
Seattle, WA:
Full time:
Posted 2 Days Ago:
B021786
** The Foundation
** We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities.

As a workplace, we’re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.
** The Team
** The Institute for Disease Modeling (IDM) at the Gates Foundation supports global efforts to eradicate infectious diseases and achieve permanent improvements in health. We develop, use, and share computational modeling tools, and promote quantitative decision-making. The IDM team is comprised of research scientists, software engineers, and strategic planning professionals.## Your Role The Institute for Disease Modeling (IDM) at the Gates Foundation is seeking a Senior Research Engineer, Modeling Technology to partner with researchers on complex problems and build and advance the technical solutions behind IDM’s disease modeling and support of model-informed policy making.

This role sits within the Model Frameworks team and reports to the Senior Manager, Model Frameworks. This work is critical to strengthening model-driven decision-making in low-resource settings: deepening scientific rigor, enabling researchers to take on more complex questions, and freeing them to focus on the science rather than on technology, all while holding supporting technology to scientific standards of validity and reproducibility.##

What You’ll Do
* ** Collaborative Problem Solving:
** Partner closely with researchers to understand complex, open-ended scientific challenges and break them into actionable, structured components. Translate core research needs into tailored technical solutions using rigorous mathematical and computational methods, refining solutions iteratively through tight feedback loops to ensure maximum impact and practical utility.
* ** Communication & Partnership:
** Build and maintain trust-based relationships across IDM, the Foundation, and research partners. Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and scientific audiences by adapting to distinct partner contexts, securing alignment on strategic technical approaches, and empowering research collaborators to spend less time on execution hurdles and more time advancing science.
* ** Modeling Technologies:
** Turn proven solutions into repeatable, reusable capabilities that provide a trusted foundation for IDM research. Determine how best to design these capabilities to maximize their impact to researchers’ work, with a focus on elegant, easy-to-understand solutions that adapt readily across research contexts. Work across IDM’s computational modeling paradigms, including agent-based, compartmental, and statistical approaches.
* ** Technology Frontiers:
** Introduce new technological approaches that increase the rigor and speed of science and model-informed decision-making, with an emphasis on AI. Rapidly prototype and evaluate emerging methods, integrating the most promising into IDM’s work. Help shape how IDM applies AI responsibly and effectively.
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