Data/Software Architect

The Bioanalytics Systems & Technologies Group focuses on driving analytic and Al/ML solutions that leverage the vast and rapidly expanding biological datasets to address national security needs. The Group’s efforts include developing software architectures and systems, bioinformatics tools, and AI algorithms to further the nation’s efforts in biomedical, health, chemical and biological defense, biosecurity, public and global health and warfighter performance.

Job Description

Our group is seeking a highly motivated and experienced data/software architect to drive architecture solutions and innovations to enhance and develop our group’s growing set of data science enabling platforms and decision support tools for meeting the needs of the US Government. Given our data science emphasis, you will also drive the development of data engineering pipelines to deliver national large-scale curated and harmonized data resources. You will help drive innovation by staying abreast of current technologies, investigating pros and cons of solutions, and prototyping. As a Technical Staff, you will also be a principal investigator for projects, lead teams, define research plans, and provide technical and management oversight.

This is an onsite position.

Requirements

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Data Science, or related scientific field or equivalent experience in technical analysis. In lieu of a Ph.D., a master’s degree with 5+ years or a Bachelors degree with 10+ years of directly related experience will be considered.
• Demonstrated ability architecting big data solutions. Experience with biological data and developing solutions in AWS, data lakes/data warehouses a plus.
• Familiarity with distributed systems and designing a modern distributed stack

• Familiarity with data technologies in areas of data integration, data curation and harmonization
• Familiarity with large databases / datasets, with a mixture of relational and not-relational data. Experience with performance tuning a plus
• Experience with data science and machine learning techniques to help with automation
• Functional expertise in building microservice architectures and methodologies
• HPC experience – Multi-threading, CUDA, Spark processing

• Experience deploying cloud native applications using containers, Kubernetes/Kubeflow
• Data modeling and database design experience, both SQL and NoSQL
• Ability to work collaboratively and lead small to medium team of software developers and data scientists to execute your vision and software architecture
• Demonstrated skills in scientific writing, as well as development and clear presentation of technical materials to a wide spectrum of technical and non-technical audiences.

Recent Graduate Hiring Range: $145,200-$170,000

Experienced Hiring Range: $145,200-$220,000

Disclaimer: MIT Lincoln Laboratory provides a typical hiring range as a good faith estimate of what we reasonably expect to offer for this position at the time of posting. The final salary offered to a selected candidate will depend on various factors, including—but not limited to—the scope and responsibilities of the role, the candidate’s experience, skills and education/training, internal equity considerations and applicable legal requirements. This range reflects base salary only and does not include additional forms of compensation or benefits.

At MIT Lincoln Laboratory, our exceptional career opportunities include many outstanding benefits to help you stay healthy, feel supported, and enjoy a fulfilling work-life balance. Benefits offered to employees include: 

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans
• MIT-funded pension
• Matching 401K
• Paid leave (including vacation, sick, parental, military, etc.)
• Tuition reimbursement and continuing education programs
• Mentorship programs
• A range of work-life balance options
• ... and much more!

Please visit our Benefits page for more information. As an employee of MIT, you can also take advantage of other voluntary benefits, discounts and perks .

Selected candidate will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation and must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret level DoD security clearance.

MIT Lincoln Laboratory is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, or genetic information; U.S. citizenship is required.

Requisition ID: 42294