Research Software Engineer
Convergent Research · Posted Nov 6, 2026
- Boulder, Colorado, United States
- On-site
- Full-time · Mid
- 3+ years
Lead development of the C-Star open-source modeling toolkit, focusing on Python software and scientific workflows.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, & maintain C-Star software components alongside a multidisciplinary, scientifically-oriented team.
- Quickly generate working software prototypes to address emerging needs and user feedback.
- Independently execute on projects, keeping a focus on high-level goals while maintaining flexibility to diagnose and solve problems as they arise.
- Assist fellow developers via code reviews, design discussions, and testing.
- Support internal and external users via issue review, troubleshooting, tutorials, requirement-gathering, and documentation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, Doctorate degree, or equivalent work experience in a technical field (e.g., oceanography, atmospheric science, physical science, applied mathematics, computer science).
- Nice to have: netcdf/zarr
- Nice to have: Pangeo libraries
- Nice to have: Xarray
- Nice to have: Numpy