Senior Applications Developer

The Senior Applications Developer for the Arts & Humanities (A&H) portal will serve as a critical bridge between sophisticated AI computational engineering and creative or critical expression planning, designing, and implementing full-stack custom software solutions that meet a variety of needs. This role is part of a hub-and-spoke model designed to facilitate AI project discovery and prototype development. The role acts as a primary technical partner for the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD), the Arts departments, and varied Humanities-based programs. This role will act as a technical partner responsible for bringing faculty instruction and research AI model prototypes to fruition by configuring environments across Cloud and High-Performance Computing (HPC) platforms such as ASC Unity. Ensures applications meet functional, technical and security requirements; evaluates code to ensure it meets industry standards and is valid, properly structured, and compatible with browsers, devices, operating systems, et al. Develops and implements software system validation and testing methods; supports current applications, monitors application performance. Performs detailed problem analysis and research, identifies options, proposes solutions. Develops reports, dashboards and other visuals to support management and strategic decision making with long-term effects.

Minimum Education Required:

Bachelors degree in computer science, Data Science, Digital Humanities, or a related field. Four years of relevant experience. Four years of relevant experience.

Required Qualifications:

• Machine Learning Frameworks: Demonstrated proficiency in implementing and fine-tuning models using PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Natural Language Processing (NLP): Experience building pipelines for Named Entity Recognition (NER), Topic Modeling, and Sentiment Analysis.
• Computer Vision (CV): Proven ability to apply object detection and style classification using libraries like OpenCV.
• Cloud & HPC Infrastructure: Experience configuring and managing environments in AWS/Azure or High-Performance Computing clusters for GPU-intensive tasks.
• Generative Media: Hands-on experience with Stable Diffusion, StyleGAN, or RunwayML for text-to-image and video synthesis.
• Immersive Technologies: Background in developing 3D content generation pipelines and textures for VR/AR applications.
• Digital Humanities: Experience working with non-standardized historical scripts, archival records, or digitized museum collections.
• Ethical Data Practice: Understanding of algorithmic bias in historical data and experience in data curation/tagging for machine learning.

Desired: Masters degree in computer science, Data Science, Digital Humanities, or a related field.

The College of the Arts and Sciences Technology Services is seeking a Senior Applications Developer. The College of Arts and Sciences is the largest college and the academic heart of the university. The College hosts 81 majors. With 38 departments, 20+ world-class research centers, and more than 2,000 faculty and staff members, students have the unique opportunity to study with the best artists, scholars, and scientists in their field.