Engineers need to do better
Engineers need to do better
Posted Jun 4, 2025 22:01 UTC (Wed) by kleptog (subscriber, #1183)In reply to: Engineers need to do better by fraetor
Parent article: The importance of free software to science
So there's a name for that now: Research Software Engineer.
The projects at $DAYJOB I find the most fun are when I'm given a pile of code written by some researcher or analyst to solve a problem to turn it into something usable. The joy on their faces when you spend an afternoon restructuring their code to produce something more readable and reliable and completes in a fraction of the time is priceless.