Principal Software Engineer

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