A perspective to navigate the National Laboratory environment for RSE career growth
Abstract
This paper shares a perspective for the research software engineering (RSE) community to navigate the National Laboratory landscape. The RSE role is a recent concept that led to organizational challenges to place and evaluate their impact, costs and benefits. The premise is that RSEs are a natural fit into the current landscape and can use traditional career growth strategies in science: publications, community engagements and proposals. Projects funding RSEs can benefit from this synergy and be inclusive on traditional activities. Still, a great deal of introspection is needed to close gaps between the rapidly evolving RSE landscape and the well-established communication patterns in science. This perspective is built upon interactions in industry, academia and government in high-performance computing (HPC) environments. The goal is to contribute to the conversation around RSE career growth and understand their return on investment for scientific projects and sponsors.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2209.02610,
title = {A perspective to navigate the National Laboratory environment for RSE career growth},
author = {William F Godoy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.02610},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
2 pages, paper presented at the RSE-HPC workshop https://us-rse.org/rse-hpc-2022/ , part of Supercomputing 2022 https://sc22.supercomputing.org/