Principal Software Engineer

General information

Location

Burlington, MA

Ref #

42293

Job Family

Research

Workplace

On-Site

Date published

13-May-2025

Time Type

Full time

Description & Requirements

The mission of the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard is to transform medicine by dramatically accelerating the understanding and treatment of disease. Through our partnerships with MIT, Harvard, and the Harvard teaching hospitals, along with collaborations across the globe, we've become a worldwide hub of cutting-edge biomedical science. We are committed to building and sustaining a culture that pursues and rewards intellectual curiosity and innovative thinking.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for the architecture, design and implementation of large complex workflows or analytic systems

Applies technical leadership and influence to negotiate product design features or applications

Leads a total design, specification, release and support for a major project such as new platform capabilities

Assesses project risks and identifies problems and feasible solutions well in advance

Leads and manages project activities, negotiating resources, work definitions, applications and/or schedules across departments and organizations

Understands, prepares and presents material for architecture and strategy review processes

Interacts regularly with own group and other departments regarding system-wide project issues and problems

Typically the technical or project lead and oversees activities and tasks of small teams

Requirements:

Excellent knowledge of programming complex programming languages, packages and operating systems

Working knowledge of system-level monitoring tools

Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science or related field with 10+ years of software development experience