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Callum Rollo
Callum Rollo
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Yes (with reservations)

I would refer you primarily to this great answer on the topic of the "research computing" career path

https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/35514/michael-seiferthttps://academia.stackexchange.com/a/178616/173832

Many national labs and universities have dedicated groups of programmers that play a critical role in scientific research. This is more like being a techinician/lab worker than a post-doc. You write code for researchers, or help them improve their existing codebases and workflow.

This is becoming an increasingly common and recognized career path, see e.g. the The United States Research Software Engineer Association

Source: I work as a data scientist/scientific programmer in a small earth science research group

Yes (with reservations)

I would refer you primarily to this great answer on the topic of the "research computing" career path

https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/35514/michael-seifert

Many national labs and universities have dedicated groups of programmers that play a critical role in scientific research. This is more like being a techinician/lab worker than a post-doc. You write code for researchers, or help them improve their existing codebases and workflow.

This is becoming an increasingly common and recognized career path, see e.g. the The United States Research Software Engineer Association

Source: I work as a data scientist/scientific programmer in a small earth science research group

Yes (with reservations)

I would refer you primarily to this great answer on the topic of the "research computing" career path

https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/178616/173832

Many national labs and universities have dedicated groups of programmers that play a critical role in scientific research. This is more like being a techinician/lab worker than a post-doc. You write code for researchers, or help them improve their existing codebases and workflow.

This is becoming an increasingly common and recognized career path, see e.g. the The United States Research Software Engineer Association

Source: I work as a data scientist/scientific programmer in a small earth science research group

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Callum Rollo
Callum Rollo
  • 151
  • 4

Yes (with reservations)

I would refer you primarily to this great answer on the topic of the "research computing" career path

https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/35514/michael-seifert

Many national labs and universities have dedicated groups of programmers that play a critical role in scientific research. This is more like being a techinician/lab worker than a post-doc. You write code for researchers, or help them improve their existing codebases and workflow.

This is becoming an increasingly common and recognized career path, see e.g. the The United States Research Software Engineer Association

Source: I work as a data scientist/scientific programmer in a small earth science research group