Overview

The Software Transition Group works as part of SRI Ventures to turn research ideas into the technology used to power SRI start-ups. Our software engineers collaborate closely with researchers to create, package and deploy SDKs from POCs, successfully transitioning state-of-the-art research into real world applications.

Responsibilities

The Sr. Software Engineer will be helping Ventures prepare assets for commercial transfer to new SRI start-ups. Specifically, the person will:

• Clarify project target functionality with researchers
• Identify sources that correspond to technology to-be-transferred
• Prepare sources for transfer, which may involve additional coding to create or expose interfaces, organization, pruning of legacy code, pruning of proprietary code, etc.
• Help document functionality of the technology for the client
• Build the proposed release from source and validate its function
• Deploy the final package for download by the client

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Software Engineering or a related field
• 10 years of experience in software engineering
• SW development experience including:
  • use of code control (preferably git)
  • an IDE
  • use of third-party downloadable packages appropriate to the language
  • best coding practices (not hardcoding, using configuration for customization, versioning, reusability, scalability)
• SW development experience in at least two different languages - Python and then another, such as Java, C , etc.
• Competence self-managing development environment (Mac or Windows or Linux); installing SW and tools
• Understanding of containerization (preferably Docker) and what it offers

Desired skills:

• Competence in more than one platform (Mac, Linux, Windows)
• Competence with Docker - building images and using containers
• Familiarity with Kubernetes - what it is and how to deploy and run within a cluster
• SW development experience with a pre-existing code base
• Awareness of or familiarity with some subset of the following (how broadly are they aware of the many aspects of SW technology)
  • Relation database - postgres, mysql, etc.
  • Django web app or Flask web app
  • REST apis
  • Communication related: gRPC, rabbitmq/zeromq, protobuf, Kafka
  • Robotics or game development - UnrealEngine, Unity, etc.
  • Threading/Parallelization
  • PyTorch
  • Machine learning

SRI International, an over 75-year strong pioneering research institute, has a rich history supporting government and industry. Our innovations have created new industries, billions of dollars in market value and lasting benefits to society. SRI is organized around broad disciplines and capabilities, with research and development divisions and labs to groups who excel at identifying new opportunities, developing products and creating custom solutions. Our organization is driven by impact - delivering unique solutions for the world's important challenges and transforming ideas into reality for clients and partners.