Software Engineer - Open Rank (Junior-Mid Level)-ICL-Hybrid

at  Georgia Tech Research Institute

OVERVIEW:

The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is the nonprofit, applied research division of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). Founded in 1934 as the Engineering Experiment Station, GTRI has grown to more than 2,900 employees, supporting eight laboratories in over 20 locations around the country and performing more than $940 million of problem-solving research annually for government and industry. GTRI’s renowned researchers combine science, engineering, economics, policy, and technical expertise to solve complex problems for the U.S. federal government, state, and industry.

PROJECT/UNIT DESCRIPTION

The Health Emerging & Advanced Technologies Division (HEAT-D) has a goal to grow a forward-looking, comprehensive capability in health data exchange and analytics technologies that brings innovative, cross-disciplinary methods and emerging techniques to the laboratory’s diverse information science portfolio. Current efforts include a portfolio of projects in federal and state public health, industry and foundational sponsorships, and internally funded research that encompasses clinical phenotyping, natural language processing, machine learning, synthetic data generation and interoperability and security standards and protocols, among other technologies and applications, for data exchange between electronic health records and reporting systems. The corpus of work naturally encompasses crucial cybersecurity and privacy considerations or technologies to ensure data security, HIPAA rules, authentication and authorization protocols, and IRB privacy protocols for research datasets, among others. This work is integral to developing robust and scalable proof-of-concept solutions. The Health Interoperability & Security Branch (HIS-B) focuses on applying health interoperability and security solutions to integrating health data systems for a wide variety of projects in multiple domains, including clinical care, research, public health improvement, cost and quality, and consumer-based health applications.

REQUIRED MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Demonstrated technical achievements in research related to the HIS-B technical capability areas, such as full-stack proof-of-concept application development, interoperability solutions, and integrations of multiple components into a system
• Demonstrated experience using Angular or a similar frontend development framework
• Demonstrated experience effectively translating requirements into a user interface
• Experience in API development, specifically developing in the context of a system versus a standalone service
• Experience managing workloads across multiple concurrent projects with various milestones and deadlines

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Active Secret Clearance
• Familiarity with health data standards such as FHIR and USCDI, as well as health data terminology standards (e.g. LOINC, SNOMED, ICD10), and common data models such as OMOP
• Demonstrated experience in oversight of full-stack applications
• Demonstrated experience translating user needs to technical deliverables, successfully involving users in the design process
• Demonstrated experience communicating technical material to a non-technical audience and vice-versa

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS

<10% travel

EDUCATION AND LENGTH OF EXPERIENCE

This position vacancy is an open-rank announcement. The final job offer will be dependent on candidate qualifications in alignment with Research Faculty Extension Professional ranks as outlined in section 3.2.1 of the Georgia Tech Faculty Handbook

• 2-14+ years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, all related fields to the position
• 0-11+ years of related experience with a Masters’ degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, all related fields to the position
• 0-8+ years of related experience with a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, all related fields to the position

Please refer to our Research Faculty Technical Level Guidelines for minimum requirements at the higher levels.

U.S. CITIZENSHIP REQUIREMENTS

Due to our research contracts with the U.S. federal government, candidates for this position must be U.S. Citizens.

JOB PURPOSE

The Software Engineer designs, develops, and tests software applications and products. Additionally, the Software Engineer manages software development teams, provides technical leadership, and establishes software development lifecycle practices and processes. The Software Engineer is proficient in programming languages such as Java, JavaScript, C, C++, C#, Ruby, Python, Scala, and Groovy. In this role, the Software Engineer requires extensive knowledge of programming languages, software development, computer operating systems, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), DevOps, Application Programming Interface (API) development, container development, and distributed systems. The Software Engineer also applies engineering principles to software creation, manages production releases of software, performs code reviews, merges feature development branches, and analyzes and triages issues. The necessary skill areas for the Software Engineer include programming and coding, fundamentals of computer science, software design and architecture development, algorithms and data structures, information analysis, software debugging and testing, and working on development teams. The Software Engineer also works with sponsors to curate requirements, define sprint work items, set priorities for work backlogs, and organize development teams.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Perform software development, debugging, modification, enhancement, and documentation
• Design, test, and develop computer software in order to meet program requirements
• Develop and maintain kernel and user-level software and scripts
• Contribute to research reports, presentations, white papers, and competitive proposals
• Create and analyze network protocols

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work with sponsors to identify needs and translate into tangible deliverables
• Own requirements and knowledge about full-stack proof-of-concept applications with the ability to communicate needs across the project
• Identify new opportunities to expand our health interoperability sponsor base
• Guide student employees in development practices during the course of project work