Research Computer Scientist
About the role
This position serves as Without Compensation Research Assistant within the Office of Research and Development (ORD). The VA Research Program strives to promote Veteran-centered care to improve patient experiences and outcomes across VA healthcare and community settings, and to advance value-driven care by providing Veterans the highest quality care at the lowest financial burden.
Qualifications
Experience: You must possess general experience. General experience is defined as experience:
- Developing programming specifications and designing, writing, testing, and validating custom software applications;
- Developing and maintaining software applications to support research, data collection, and data analysis activities;
- Applying relational database concepts and software development principles within a research or healthcare environment;
- Creating and maintaining standardized documentation for software programs, modifications, and evaluations; and
- Resolving complex technical issues related to research data collection, existing datasets, and electronic data collection systems.
Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science or bachelor's degree with 30 semester hours in a combination of mathematics, statistics, and computer science. At least 15 of the 30 semester hours must have included any combination of statistics and mathematics that included differential and integral calculus. All academic degrees and course work must be from accredited or pre-accredited institutions.
Physical Requirements
The work is predominantly sedentary. Typically, the employee sits comfortably to do the work. However, there will be some walking, standing, bending and carrying of items of moderate weight such as large binders, banker style file boxes, meeting materials, papers, books or small parts. Hand and eye coordination for delicate testing procedures may be the only special physical demand required to perform the work.