AP108 HEASARC Senior Scientific Software Developer

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📍 Lanham, Maryland, United States 💼 Full-time 🕒 Posted June 07, 2026

Job Description

The High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive (HEASARC) at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) seeks a senior scientific software developer with significant experience in developing, maintaining, and managing open source software. Experience with developing or maintaining C and C++ code would be a plus. We maintain a large code base of analysis software called HEASoft written over several decades and using multiple languages from a variety of contributors and developers. We need to modernize the development and management practices we use. As we open source parts of this code, we expect contributions also from the community. We are furthermore developing a plan for modernizing the software itself and will need an experienced developer to be involved in the design as well as implementation of this future code base.

Required Qualifications:

  • Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining large, long-lived code bases in a collaborative or open source envir...
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    Job Details

    • Location Lanham, Maryland
    • Job Type Full-time
    • Category Computer Occupations
    • Posted Date June 07, 2026
    • Application Deadline July 17, 2026