"Postdoctoral Artificial Intelligence Research Software Engineer"

Aalto University is looking for a Postdoctoral Artificial Intelligence Research Software Engineer to a postdoctoral-level position. The desired start dates would be as soon as possible in 2026.

Are you more of a programmer than your researcher colleagues? Are you more of a researcher than commercial developers? Do you want a career that involves research and science but isn't the academic tenure track? The Academic Research Software Engineer position is your next step on that path.

This position will be similar to a postdoc, but with an emphasis on research infrastructure, HPC, and engineering rather than preparation for an academic career path. You will be involved in research, but more focused on learning and improving how computing, workflows, and data are used in research than finding your own novel research results and publishing them.

You will work with research groups and be affiliated with Aalto Scientific Computing (ASC). You'll serve as an intermediary between the two. Compared to the staff of ASC, you will be directly working within research groups, much more involved in day-to-day research, follow projects for a much longer period, and more involved in publications. Compared to a typical academic position, you will have a joint affiliation with ASC and get extra training in research engineering. There will be less emphasis on novel results for the sake of novelty, and more on applying and developing best practices in the way the research is done.