Director/Senior Director of Research Software Engineering

POSITION SUMMARY

The Simons Foundation's Informatics group, part of the Division of Autism and Neuroscience (A&N), is seeking an experienced Director or Senior Director of Research Software Engineering (RSE) to lead the design, development, and delivery of software systems that drive scientific discovery.

Informatics stewards the scientific data produced by A&N research programs across their full lifecycle - from collection and processing to sharing and analysis. The Director of Research Software Engineering will play a central role in that mission, leading the engineering team responsible for the software systems that make that complex scientific data accessible and useful to the broader research community.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS/RESPONSIBILITIES

• Technical Leadership & Strategy: Define and execute the long-term vision and strategy for researcher-facing software systems.
• Systems Ownership: Oversee the full-stack development of SFARI Base and new systems.
• Technical Excellence: Drive Informatics-wide engineering standards.
• Team Management: Manage, build, mentor, and scale a team of software engineers.
• Cross-functional Partnership: Collaborate closely with other Informatics teams and A&N program staff.
• Project Oversight: Ensure the timely and high-quality delivery of software projects.
• Researcher Experience: Champion the needs of external researchers.
• Open Science: Ensure that engineering decisions advance the foundation's commitment to open science.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Bioinformatics, or a related field.

Experience: 12+ years of software engineering experience, with 7+ years in a leadership or management role. Experience building software for genomics or other data-intensive life sciences research contexts. Strong proficiency in Python and Django.