Senior Scientific Software Engineer (Fed Gov)

Location: Remote, United States; associated with Albuquerque, NM

Company

hirify.global is a 100% employee-owned organization delivering technical solutions in energy transition, infrastructure resilience, digital transformation, sustainability, mining, and water systems.

What you will do

• Sustain, analyze, refactor, and modernize scientific software, including legacy systems.
• Support computational modeling across conceptual, process, and numerical models.
• Debug, profile, benchmark, and assess software performance, portability, efficiency, stability, and scalability.
• Support Linux development, HPC workflows, job schedulers, scientific data workflows, and reproducible builds.
• Apply software quality, testing, verification, validation, documentation, technical-debt, risk, and workflow practices.
• Perform work in accordance with applicable Nuclear Quality Assurance (NQA-1) requirements.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline such as environmental science, mathematics, or physics, and at least 5 years of relevant experience; alternatively, a bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and at least 10 years of relevant experience.
• At least one project within the 5 years preceding the response deadline must combine computational modeling and software development in a regulated, safety-critical, high-consequence, or equivalent mission-critical environment.
• Ability to describe the project environment, tasks, responsibilities, deliverables, and why the work was high-consequence or mission-critical.
• Scientific programming with Fortran, Python, and C and/or C++.
• GNU/Linux or equivalent development environments, including build, compilation, and debugging toolchains.
• HPC systems and job schedulers such as Slurm or equivalent; Bash or equivalent Unix/Linux shell scripting.
• Software quality practices, testing, scientific data formats and workflows, debugging, profiling, performance analysis, and legacy-code modernization.
• Git or equivalent version control, reproducible builds, and source-code documentation tools such as Doxygen or equivalent.
• Python 2 and Python 3, C and C++, OpenMPI, MPICH, or Intel MPI, and serial and parallel scientific codes.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work with flexible work schedules.
• Paid parental leave and medical, dental, and vision insurance plans.
• 401(k) and ESOP with company match up to 4%.
• Professional development, training, tuition reimbursement, and an Employee Assistance Program.
• Employee-owned environment focused on solving critical client problems.