The College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago is seeking a research software engineer with expertise in handling large datasets, performing data analysis, and developing user-friendly, open-source data analytics tools. This role offers the opportunity to collaborate with researchers and developers across the University of Illinois Chicago, the University of Washington, and New York University to create open-source tools that address pressing urban challenges. The research software engineer will contribute to the NSF-funded OSCUR project (https://oscur.org), which seeks to address two key challenges in urban computing: (1) the lack of documented, robust, well-engineered tools and open computing platforms and (2) the dispersed community of cross-disciplinary researchers and developers, which limits knowledge sharing and collective solutions. A core component of the project is the development of a cyberinfrastructure that integrates methods and tools for the exploration of urban data that are scalable, reusable, interoperable, and solutions to common challenges, including data discovery, cleaning, analytics, modeling, visualization, and reproducibility.
This is a multi-year opportunity, but the position will be renewed every year following an annual performance review and availability of funding. The candidate will contribute to long-term research goals that advance innovative urban computing solutions. The candidate will have the chance to work within an interdisciplinary team that includes computer scientists, civil engineers, and policy experts, researching, designing, and developing specialized software with an emphasis on advanced data discovery, data provenance, visualization, visual analytics, and machine learning technologies across a broad range of application areas.
The candidate will take a leadership role in the research and development of novel urban computing tools. Responsibilities include supervising graduate and undergraduate students in research and implementation activities, preparing research publications, presentations, and grant proposals, and actively participating in research conferences.
More information: https://oscur.org/research-software-engineer-uic/