Department
Globus Labs
About the Department
Job Summary
The successful candidate will play a key role in both the development and application of agentic middleware, working closely with a multidisciplinary team of software engineers and researchers. Responsibilities include designing and implementing full-stack applications, spanning backend services, APIs, and open-source software, with a primary focus on Python-based, scalable, and robust systems deployed in cloud environments. The role involves building, deploying, and managing cloud-native services, ensuring reliability, performance, and usability in production settings.
The candidate will ensure that all research and development activities comply with institutional, state, and federal policies and regulations, and will disseminate results through presentations at meetings and conferences. In addition, they will independently initiate and lead new efforts in collaboration with the Globus and Globus Labs teams—spanning problem identification, project conceptualization, proposal development, and successful implementation and delivery.
Responsibilities
Contribute to development of software infrastructure to support creation of agentic systems.
Deploy and operate cloud hosted services for use by the research community.
Build relationships with other AI/ML and data infrastructure community efforts.
Define key directions to keep UChicago at the forefront of AI/ML and national data infrastructure.
Ensure compliance of research activities with institutional, state, and federal regulatory policies, procedures, directives, and mandates.
Present findings at meetings and/ or conferences.
Lead the definition and documentation of requirements, architecture and design of secure, scalable, asynchronous, agentic systems, based on knowledge of principles of API design, asynchronous processes, service deployment and delivering highly available services. Define technical direction, and provide leadership for product initiatives. Engage with other leaders in the organization to develop end-to-end architecture and high-level systems designs. Prepare plans to translate business requirements into well-designed applications while balancing user and business needs, technical competencies, industry developments, and time constraints.
Maintain a leadership role in the AI/ML and data infrastructure community. Build and maintain knowledge of relevant software technologies being developed and/or used in scientific and commercial communities; contribute to team coordination and development activities, including project planning, project reporting, and recruitment.
Designs new systems, features, and tools. Solves complex problems and identifies opportunities for technical improvement and performance optimization. Reviews and tests code to ensure appropriate standards are met.
Utilizes technical knowledge of existing and emerging technologies, including public cloud offerings from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
Performs other related work as needed.
Minimum Qualifications
Education:
Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.
Work Experience:
Certifications:
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Preferred Qualifications
Experience:
Relevant programming experience developing, implementing, debugging, and maintaining applications with Python.
Experience working with high performance computers (e.g., parallelizing and distributing code).
Experience in distributed data management and workflow systems.
Experience leading the design, development and publication of innovative projects in AI/ML solutions.
Ability to build systems where agents operate with independence, make decisions, and execute complex workflows.
Expertise in engineering modular, dynamic workflows for agents, breaking problems into sub-tasks and designing feedback loops for ongoing improvement.
Understanding of patterns, where multiple agents collaborate and specialize within larger systems for scalability and robustness.
Competence in equipping agents with planning capabilities, persistent memory across sessions/tasks, and causal/logical reasoning to enhance autonomy and effectiveness.
Working Conditions
Ability to work in a team environment.
Remote position with some onsite requirements for team meetings and site visits.
Requires the ability to work independently.
Resume (required)
When applying, the document(s) MUST be uploaded via the My Experience page, in the section titled Application Documents of the application.
Job Family
Role Impact
Scheduled Weekly Hours
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Health Screen Required
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Pay Rate Type
FLSA Status
Pay Range
The included pay rate or range represents the University’s good faith estimate of the possible compensation offer for this role at the time of posting.
Benefits Eligible
The University of Chicago offers a wide range of benefits programs and resources for eligible employees, including health, retirement, and paid time off. Information about the benefit offerings can be found in the Benefits Guidebook.
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Skills Required
- College or university degree in a related field
- 5-7 years of work experience in a related job discipline
- Programming experience developing, debugging, and maintaining applications with Python
- Experience with high performance computing, parallelizing and distributing code
- Experience with distributed data management and workflow systems
- Experience leading design, development, and publication of AI/ML projects
- Experience building, deploying, and managing cloud-native services (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Ability to design secure, scalable, asynchronous systems and APIs
What We Do
The University of Chicago is an urban research university that has driven new ways of thinking since 1890. Our commitment to rigorous inquiry and intellectual freedom draws pathbreaking scholars to our global campuses, where field-defining ideas are born that challenge and change the world. The University of Chicago has its main campus on Chicago's South Side and seven international campuses and centers throughout the world. Students can choose from 53 majors and 47 minors in the undergraduate College, with four divisions and seven professional schools for graduate study.
