Assistant Research Scientist (PREP0005162)

Johns Hopkins, founded in 1876, is America's first research university and home to nine world-class academic divisions working together as one university. Salary $65,000 - $96,200 Johns Hopkins University: Whiting School of Engineering: Office ofResearch and Translation Description PREP Research Associate This position is part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Professional Research Experience Program (PREP). NIST recognizes that its research staff may want to collaborate with researchers at academic institutions on specific projects of mutual interest and, therefore, requires those institutions to be recipients of a PREP award. The PREP program involves staff from a wide range of backgrounds conducting scientific research across various fields. Individuals in this position will perform technical work supporting the collaboration's scientific research. Research Title Research Software Engineer The work will entail The Data Center and Business group (DCB) in the NIST MaterialMeasurement Laboratory is seeking a Research Software Engineer(RSE) to help build sustainable software infrastructure forMeasurement Service related projects. The successful candidate willprovide both hands‑on support for the development, maintenance,deployment, and long-term sustainability of critical software,databases, workflows, and scientific infrastructure. In this role you will work as an embedded technical team member,participating in project planning, code creation and revision, codereview, architecture discussions, reproducibility efforts, anddeployment decisions. The successful candidate will help prioritizecoding work across projects in consultation with DCB programmers,balancing near-term needs with long-term softwaresustainability. U.S. Citizen Preferred Key responsibilities will include but are not limited to Design, expand, and deploy to an existing scientific databaselayout supporting active research and internal NIST datasets. Develop, refactor, profile, test, and package prototype code forlong-term maintainability and performance. Develop new user-friendly intuitive features based around datainput forms and display of data for an existing reference materialdataset website. Develop features to store, retrieve, and manage files related tothe data records. Qualifications A Master’s degree in software engineering, computer science, information technology, a STEM field, or equivalent professional experience. Proficiency in HTML, CSS, SASS, and JavaScript for user-facing layouts and behavior. Proficiency in Server-side languages or runtimes (Node.js and PHP), alongside database management (MongoDB). Proficiency in Version control systems like Git, API integration, responsive design, and debugging/testing procedures Proficiency in Linux based file system and programming Experience building data pipelines and reproducible workflows. Library and API design and release management, documentation for scientific users and developers, automated testing and continuous integration, code review and maintainability practices. The ability to work alongside researchers in adopting modern, collaborative software development workflows (e.g., git-based collaboration, issue tracking, lightweight project management). Experience creating tutorials, examples, API documentation, or other user-facing materials for scientific software. 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