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title: 'Research Software Engineer at Convergent Research'
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# Research Software Engineer at Convergent Research

- **Company:** Convergent Research
- **Location:** Boulder, CO
- **Compensation:** $100k–$175k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-11-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/convergentresearch/27eb6f06-826e-4d36-8099-4b590c6807a4

## Job description

## About [C]Worthy

[C]Worthy is a tightly coordinated team of scientists, developers, and leaders moving quickly to accelerate and de-risk ocean-based climate solutions. We are building C-Star, an open-source modeling platform that systematizes ocean modeling through automated, reproducible workflows, enabling reliable, high-fidelity simulations of ocean circulation and biogeochemistry. We use this software to support a range of applications, including ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR), an emerging technology with the potential to make significant contributions to stabilizing the climate system. We are working with external partners to establish a broad user-base within academia, industry, and the larger ecosystem of climate-solutions actors.

## Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced scientific software engineer to contribute to C-Star, our open-source modeling toolkit. C-Star encompasses a wide range of tools and concepts that range from scientific algorithms, data processing pipelines, workflow management, schema and software lifecycle management, and more. The successful candidate will have a strong foundation in Python software development and scientific modeling applications, and the ability to learn quickly and contribute in areas outside their current expertise.

As we are actively incorporating AI into our tools and development workflows, we are seeking a candidate who is eager to utilize the latest AI-assisted tooling to move quickly, while also understanding the fundamentals of good coding practices and displaying a commitment to learning and improving an existing codebase.

The primary impact of this position is the software that you will help design and build. While opportunities to author or co-author scientific publications may present themselves, they are not a core focus of this position.

[C]Worthy is headquartered in Boulder, CO, and a candidate who can work in-office three days per week is preferred. Relocation expenses or fully remote positions may be considered for exceptional candidates.

## Key Responsibilities

- Design, build, test, & maintain C-Star software components alongside a multidisciplinary, scientifically-oriented team.
- Quickly generate working software prototypes to address emerging needs and user feedback.
- Independently execute on projects, keeping a focus on high-level goals while maintaining flexibility to diagnose and solve problems as they arise.
- Assist fellow developers via code reviews, design discussions, and testing.
- Support internal and external users via issue review, troubleshooting, tutorials, requirement-gathering, and documentation.
- Contribute to an organizational culture of cooperation, learning, and adaptation to a changing world.

## Minimum Qualifications

- Bachelor’s, Master’s, Doctorate degree, or equivalent work experience in a technical field (e.g., oceanography, atmospheric science, physical science, applied mathematics, computer science).
- Understanding of computationally-heavy scientific modeling workflows, their challenges, and typical user needs. Ocean modeling experience is preferred, but similar earth system modeling experience will also be considered.
- Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills; ability to understand both scientific and software systems, and tackle abstract problems in the overlap between them.
- 3+ years of experience writing clean, maintainable, object-oriented software in Python
- Experience with AI-assisted coding tools is strongly preferred, but we will consider candidates with a strong interest in AI-assisted development and a demonstrated ability to learn and apply new technologies quickly.
- Experience working in small, interdisciplinary, fast-moving teams with shared projects and tasks; demonstrated ability to focus on objectives, iterate towards solutions, and adapt to changing requirements.
- Strong written and oral communication skills, including the ability to translate scientific requirements into software specifications and convey technical results to non-specialist audiences.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience working with multi-dimensional scientific datasets in Python (e.g., netcdf/zarr formats and Pangeo libraries, particularly Xarray, Numpy, Scipy, and Dask).
- Experience with HPC/supercomputer environments (SLURM, MPI, distributed file systems).
- Expertise in TB/PB-scale data engineering.
- Knowledge of workflow management tools (DAGs, state machines, tracking databases).
- Experience building software intended for reproducibility of results (data versioning, schema versioning, logging, audit trails).
- Experience or interest in natural language interfaces for complex scientific problems (e.g. building AI primitives and skills for running ocean models or interrogating results).
- Familiarity with FORTRAN.
- Experience with GPU-accelerated computation (e.g., CUDA, CuPy, JAX, PyTorch) and running or optimizing numerical/modeling codes on GPUs.

## About Convergent Research

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Convergent Research is a nonprofit organization that launches and supports Focused Research Organizations (FROs) to build foundational technologies that unblock scientific progress.
- **Entity Type**: Private Nonprofit (501(c)(3))
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Adam Marblestone, Anastasia Gamick

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Scientific Research and Development Services (NAICS 5417)
- **Target customers**: B2B — scientific researchers, universities, government agencies, and philanthropic funders; operates as a "mission control" launching public-good R&D projects.
- **Mission statement**: “Spectacularly good futures are within reach, but only if we mind the gaps. Scientists need essential technologies to do the groundbreaking research all of us depend on.”

## Products & Services
Convergent Research does not sell commercial products. Instead, it incubates **Focused Research Organizations (FROs)** – time-bound, technically ambitious nonprofit efforts designed to produce high-impact public goods. Current and past FROs/projects include:

- **Cultivarium**: Developing tools for studying novel (previously unculturable) microorganisms.
- **E11 Bio (EVE Bio)**: Brain circuit mapping technologies.
- **Forest Neurotech**: Neural technology and biosensing platforms.
- **Ocean CDR Atlas**: Open-access tool for ocean-based carbon dioxide removal measurement.
- **Fundamental Development Gap Map (v1.0)**: A public web portal identifying bottlenecks holding back science.

Convergent Research provides shared operational support (legal, finance, HR, communications) across all FROs.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not applicable (nonprofit).
- **Annual Revenue (FY2024)**: **$72.4 million** (ProPublica IRS filing). Total revenue for FY2024 was $100.1 million.
- **Total Grant Funding Received**: At least $25.1 million from Vanguard Charitable, $9.5 million from Probabilistic Computing Foundation, $8 million from The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation (latest filings).
- **Total Funding Raised**: ~$2 million in disclosed grants (led by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2023); the vast majority comes from additional major philanthropic gifts not categorized as single-investor rounds.
- **Notable Partners/Funders**: Advanced Research and Intervention Agency (ARIA, UK), Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation, Vanguard Charitable, Probabilistic Computing Foundation.
- **Growth Signals**: 164 employees (as of latest CauseIQ data, up from ~23 on LinkedIn); headquarter presence in Palo Alto, Cambridge (MA), and Boulder (CO); expanded into the UK via a collaboration with ARIA (“FROST UK”); 15 active job postings with 25% month-over-month posting growth.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Novel institutional model**: Focused Research Organizations (FROs) fill a gap between traditional academia and for-profit startups — targeted, time-boxed, public-good missions.
- **Lean central infrastructure**: Shared operational support lets FRO scientists focus purely on technical breakthroughs, avoiding administrative overhead.
- **High-caliber scientific network**: Leaders include senior scientists from MIT, Caltech, King’s College London, and CMU as grantees/collaborators.
- **Access to major philanthropic capital**: Partners with some of the largest climate and science foundations globally.

## Strategic Focus
- **Geographic expansion**: Formal partnership with ARIA in the UK to launch FROs abroad (“FROST UK”).
- **Gap mapping**: Releasing and refining the Fundamental Development Gap Map to systematically identify the biggest bottlenecks in science.
- **Scaling the FRO model**: Adding new FROs in ocean CDR, neuroscience, and molecular engineering; hiring Founders in Residence to spin up new efforts.
- **Public data as product**: Committed to releasing open datasets and protocols (e.g., drug–target assay data, Lean proof library) as public goods.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven**: Direct, hands-on impact on solving foundational scientific bottlenecks rather than incremental product improvements.
- **Culture**: Described as “mission control” — fast-paced, collaborative, technical. Leadership emphasizes pushing high-risk, high-reward projects.
- **Locations**: On-site positions in Palo Alto (CA), Cambridge/Boston (MA), and Boulder (CO). Some roles are US- or UK-based.
- **Team composition**: Small, senior-heavy centralized team (~20 core staff in Palo Alto) plus larger distributed FRO project teams (~164 total organization-wide). Significant cross-functional work across legal, finance, operations, and science.
- **Typical roles**: Postdoctoral Research Scientists, Research Associates, Biosensing Engineers, Finance/Operations Managers, General Counsel.
- **Compensation transparency (IRS filing)**: CEO Adam Marblestone — $431,025; President Anastasia Gamick — $360,495; competitive nonprofit scientific salaries.
- **Notable perks**: Working with world-class scientists and funders; contributions to genuinely public-good science; tax-deductible donation eligible organization.
- **Remote/hybrid**: Mostly on-site (Boulder, Palo Alto, Cambridge); limited remote possibilities depending on role.

## Sources
1. [convergentresearch.org](https://www.convergentresearch.org/)
2. [jobs.lever.co/convergentresearch](https://jobs.lever.co/convergentresearch)
3. [linkedin.com/company/convergent-research](https://linkedin.com/company/convergent-research)
4. [causeiq.com – Convergent Research](https://www.causeiq.com/organizations/convergent-research,883013217/)
5. [projects.propublica.org – Convergent Research Inc](https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/883013217)

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