If you’re currently in a non-tenure track position at an academic or research institution, you can apply for funding to develop your career as a Research Software Engineer (RSE). As the grant recipient, you’ll serve as the principal investigator (PI) for up to three years. You’ll have the opportunity to expand your knowledge in the development and dissemination of biomedical, clinical, behavioral, or health-related research software, tools, and algorithms.

To be an ideal candidate, you must:

• have held a full-time, non-tenure track position for at least one year.
• demonstrate outstanding software engineering research expertise with relevant publications, peer-reviewed conference proceedings, and links to code samples.
• commit to a minimum effort of six “person-months” (i.e., number of people multiplied by the number of months they work).
• not have served as the contact PI for any independent NIH grant applications in the past five years.

NIH aims to update the data ecosystem by building sustainable software foundations for open software and tools in biomedical, clinical, behavioral, and health-related research. This effort aligns with the NIH Strategic Plan for Data Science and encourages the adoption of solid software development practices, new data science technologies, cloud and hybrid computing, artificial intelligence, and open science guidelines.