Research Software Developer

McGill University•Montreal, QC

4d•CA$82,280 - CA$123,420•Hybrid

About The Position

Reporting to the Research Scientist Manager, this position will play a key role in advancing neuro-foundation model research within a leading AI research lab affiliated with Mila – the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute. The incumbent will lead the development, maintenance, and community support of NeuroGalaxy, a large-scale open-source platform for neuroscience AI, while collaborating with academic and industry partners to train, benchmark, and deploy state-of-the-art models using high-performance computing resources.

Requirements

A PhD in neuroscience of computer science (or related degrees).
Over 2 years experience with creating, releasing, and maintaining large-scale open source code bases.
Familiarity with the most common types of neural data file formats (NWB, NIDS, etc.)
Experience training AI models on high-performance GPU clusters.
Bachelor's Degree
5 Years Related Experience
Knowledge of English: Level 4 on a scale of 0-4.

Responsibilities

Overseeing the continued development and maintenance of a large, specialized public code base for creating neuro-foundation models (NeuroGalaxy).
Debugging the code base, managing the GitHub, and approving new pull requests from the community of users.
Creating robust, accessible documentation for the code base as well as public facing websites and tutorials for new users.
Providing estimates of compute costs associated with different components of the code base for different model and dataset sizes.
Writing specialized technical analyses of existing compute usage on the DRAC and Mila clusters for use in grant applications.
Analyzing new models generated by the community and incorporating their designs into the codebase.
Training models created by the Mila community and benchmarking them against existing models
Maintaining a list of critical benchmarks and a leaderboard for existing models on those benchmarks.
Collaborating with other neuro-foundation model development groups in academia and industry.

Benefits

Competitive benefits package (Health, Dental, Life Insurance) (if eligible)
Defined contribution pension plan (with employer contribution up to 10%) (if eligible)
Group Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) and Tax Free Savings Account (TFSA)
Competitive vacation policy
Two (2) personal days
Two (2) floating holidays
Nine (9) "Summer Fridays" - paid days off between the St-Jean Baptiste holiday and Labour Day
Paid time off over the December holiday period
Tuition waiver for regular employees and their dependents
Up to two (2) days of remote work per week where the position permits