The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent research center at the University of Washington. Its mission is to monitor global health conditions and health systems, as well as to evaluate interventions, initiatives, and reforms. IHME carries out a range of projects within different research areas including: the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors; Future Health Scenarios; Costs and Cost Effectiveness; Local Burden of Disease; Resource Tracking; and Impact Evaluations. The aim is to provide policymakers, donors, and researchers with the highest-quality quantitative evidence base to make decisions that achieve better health.
IHME has an exciting opportunity for a full-time Research Engineer to join the COVID-19 Forecasting Project.
About our Team
The COVID-19 Forecasting Project’s aim is to provide policymakers, donors, and researchers with the highest-quality quantitative evidence base to make decisions that achieve better health. The Production Team is responsible for running our central modeling pipeline; generating weekly estimates of deaths, cases, infections, and hospitalizations. The team then delivers results to users through a visualization tool and policy briefing documents, both viewed by hundreds of thousands of users on a weekly basis. Utilizing results from weekly updates, the production team is then responsible for creation of tables, figures, and maps for presentations and direct communication with stakeholders. The team is agile in creating new sub-analyses, changes to the modeling pipeline, and short-term analyses for external partners.
About the Role
This position will be part of an interdisciplinary team focused on operating and improving our production pipeline to publish weekly COVID 19 projections updates. The individual must learn how multiple components of a complex analytical process relate to one another, learn the nature of the key indicators and variables being analyzed, and identify and implement ways to improve performance while maintaining high-quality and reproducible scientific results.
This position requires a strong background in writing scientific software and an ability to translate production requirements a concrete software development plan with the assistance of senior technical and research staff. The individual will have primary responsibility for running the COVID-19 production pipeline on a rotating basis with other research and technical staff. In addition, the individual will design and implement solutions that improve performance and can easily be utilized by other staff with less coding experience. The position ensures the software developed is appropriately flexible, scalable, and efficient. The position calls for dexterity working with multiple coding languages (primarily python and R).
This position is contingent on project funding availability.
Responsibilities:
Tool development & support
Research Command
General
As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website, click here.
REQUIREMENTS
Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration.
Additional Requirements:
DESIRED
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
Application Process:
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The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent population health research center at UW Medicine, part of the University of Washington, that provides rigorous and comparable measurement of the world's most important health problems and evaluates the strategies used to address them. IHME makes this information freely available so that policymakers have the evidence they need to make informed decisions about how to allocate resources to best improve population health.