Senior Applications Developer

The Ohio State University • Columbus, OH

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About The Position

The Senior Applications Developer for the Arts & Humanities (A&H) portal will serve as a critical bridge between sophisticated AI computational engineering and creative or critical expression planning, designing, and implementing full-stack custom software solutions that meet a variety of needs. This role is part of a hub-and-spoke model designed to facilitate AI project discovery and prototype development. The role acts as a primary technical partner for the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD), the Arts departments, and varied Humanities-based programs. This role will act as a technical partner responsible for bringing faculty instruction and research AI model prototypes to fruition by configuring environments across Cloud and High-Performance Computing (HPC) platforms such as ASC Unity.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Data Science, Digital Humanities, or a related field. Four years of relevant experience.
• Machine Learning Frameworks: Demonstrated proficiency in implementing and fine-tuning models using PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Natural Language Processing (NLP): Experience building pipelines for Named Entity Recognition (NER), Topic Modeling, and Sentiment Analysis.
• Computer Vision (CV): Proven ability to apply object detection and style classification using libraries like OpenCV.
• Cloud & HPC Infrastructure: Experience configuring and managing environments in AWS/Azure or High-Performance Computing clusters for GPU-intensive tasks.
• Generative Media: Hands-on experience with Stable Diffusion, StyleGAN, or RunwayML for text-to-image and video synthesis.
• Immersive Technologies: Background in developing 3D content generation pipelines and textures for VR/AR applications.
• Digital Humanities: Experience working with non-standardized historical scripts, archival records, or digitized museum collections.
• Ethical Data Practice: Understanding of algorithmic bias in historical data and experience in data curation/tagging for machine learning.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in computer science, Data Science, Digital Humanities, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Ensures applications meet functional, technical and security requirements
• Evaluates code to ensure it meets industry standards and is valid, properly structured, and compatible with browsers, devices, operating systems, et al.
• Develops and implements software system validation and testing methods
• Supports current applications, monitors application performance
• Performs detailed problem analysis and research, identifies options, proposes solutions
• Develops reports, dashboards and other visuals to support management and strategic decision making with long-term effects.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision coverage, with Ohio State paying a significant portion of the cost.
• Paid time off, including sick and vacation time and 11 holidays.
• State retirement plan or an alternative retirement plan, both with generous employer contributions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees