The Institute for Disease Modeling (IDM) at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is looking for an an expert software engineering leader to manage a team of research software engineers.
This is a leadership role reporting to the IDM Deputy Director for Software, contributing directly to IDM’s impact. The role calls for capable management of dedicated software engineers; high-quality partnership with peers in research management to make difficult trade-offs and priority decisions; and the ability to conceive, plan, and drive strategic vision in a research setting.
Success depends on excellent communication skills; on working transparently and flexibly with research managers; and on building deep understanding of the research and technology spaces IDM researchers work in.
You will contribute to decisions about software design and distribution to increase the impact of our modeling software as a global public good. This will involve sophisticated trade-offs over factors that influence the success of shared code. These could include the way code is written, its ease-of-use, run-time requirements, documentation content, and community engagement.
For more information, please view the job announcement.
