Karthik Ram

The rOpenSci project based at the University of California, Berkeley
seeks to hire a postdoctoral scholar to work on the research activities
funded by the grant titled "Fostering the next generation of sustainable
software and reproducible research practices in the scientific
community". The project develops open source software to promote
reproducible research practices in the scientific community. The
postdoctoral scholar will focus on a research topic aligned with their
own interests in order to better understand and improve scientific
software practices. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

- Defining & evaluating sustainability for research software
- Improving the development process that leads to new, sustainable,
  reusable, and impactful software
- Developing recommendations for the support and maintenance of existing
  software: engineering best practices, transparency, governance,
  business and sustainability
- Building large and engaged user communities
- Understanding and recommending policy changes to software credit,
  attribution, incentive, and reward; issues related to multiple
  organizations and multiple countries, such as intellectual property,
  licensing, and mechanisms and venues for publishing software, and the
  role of publishers
- Improving education and training
- Studying careers and profession institutional changes to support
  sustainable software such as promotion and tenure metrics, job
  categories and career paths

We expect the postdoc will disseminate their findings in the form of
blog posts, technical reports, workshop and conference talks and papers,
journal papers or software products, as appropriate for the work and the
applicant's own career goals.While experience in developing academic
software may be helpful, many projects in the areas above need not
require software development experience.

The candidate can expect to work closely with mentors from the rOpenSci
project aligned with their interests, such as Dr. Karthik Ram and Dr.
Carl Boettiger (UC Berkeley), Dr. Jenny Bryan (University of British
Columbia), and Dr. Daniel S. Katz (University of Illinois), as well as
other members from the rOpenSci and UC Berkeley communities. This
position will be based at UC Berkeley, but arrangements for working
remotely may be available.

This research is funded by the rOpenSci project through a grant from the
Helmsely Trust. The initial appointment will be for 1 year, full-time
(100%), renewable for another year based on adequate progress made in
the first year. The position comes with a competitive postdoc salary
[plus
benefits](https://vspa.berkeley.edu/postdoc-health-and-welfare-benefits),
as well as a generous yearly allowance for computing equipment,
conference travel, and other research expenses. Earliest start date is
November 2016. Please contact Dr. Karthik Ram <karthik.ram@berkeley.edu>
with any informal questions about the position before applying.

**Qualifications**:

- Applicants must possess a PhD or equivalent degree by their start date
  (more details in the full job ad linked below).
- Applicants from natural or social sciences, computer science,
  statistics or related disciplines are all welcome.

Applications closed.


The rOpenSci project based at the University of California, Berkeley seeks to hire a postdoctoral scholar to work on the research activities funded by the grant titled “Fostering the next generation of sustainable software and reproducible research practices in the scientific community”. The project develops open source software to promote reproducible research practices in the scientific community.

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Postdoctoral Scholar – Sustainable Software and Reproducible Research