What is a Research Software Engineer?

rowlandm commented 6 years ago

eg. Scripting vs building systems vs building standalone tools How does that overlap with data scientists?

manodeep commented 6 years ago

Are you a Research Software Engineer?

Regardless of your formal job title, if you answer yes to many of the following questions, you are doing the work of a Research Software Engineer:

Are you employed to develop software for research?
Are you spending more time developing software than conducting research?
Are you employed as a postdoctoral researcher, even though you predominantly work on software development?
Are you the person who does computers in your research group?
Are you sometimes not named on research papers despite playing a fundamental part in developing the software used to create them?
Do you lack the metrics needed to progress your academic career, like papers and conference presentations, despite having made a significant contribution through software?

manodeep commented 6 years ago

And the results of the latest (9th March 2018), international RSE survey

nrmay commented 4 years ago

Cleaning up this repo.

rse-aunz / organisation