Junior Software Engineer

Colorado State University is seeking a Junior Software Engineer to support a national-scale artificial intelligence testbed. The role develops and maintains distributed computing infrastructure, AI-enabled data analysis and autonomous control features, software applications, and system integrations while supporting performance troubleshooting and user needs.

What you'll do:

• Develop software for managing a distributed network of computing nodes
• Develop new features for AI-enabled data analysis and autonomous control at the edge
• Develop and maintain software infrastructure through patches, bundles, releases, and maintenance packs
• Code software applications that adhere to established designs and support internal requirements and external users; create and maintain code documentation
• Identify database and software performance issues and adjust; support debugging and troubleshooting
• Insure the correct operation of the distributed infrastructure
• Prioritize tasks within a project and meet with business analysts and stakeholders to determine requirements
• Open and manage support tickets with vendors; grant access to new users and respond to user inquiries; collaborate with users to design features for developing new goals, strategies, workflow and best practices
• Evaluate feature, upgrade, and change requests and recommend the appropriate course of action
• Prioritize tasks within assigned projects to meet requirements and deadlines
• Identify software performance issues and determine the adjustments needed to resolve them
• Partner with users to design features and recommend workflow and best practice improvements

What they're looking for:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field
• One year of experience developing and maintaining code or services in production
• Fluency in: Programming language such as Python, C, and shell scripts
• General developer tooling such as Git and Docker
• Linux
• Authorized to work in the United States by employment start date
• Kubernetes
• Monitoring tooling such as Prometheus
• CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions