4 software development engineer jobs found in Cambridge

Visa Sponsorship Information:  Harvard University is unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position Pre-Employment Screening:  Identity Other Information: Hybrid - Onsite as needed with advance notice Please provide a cover letter and resume as one document with your application. This position has an 180-day orientation and review period. The Senior Software Engineer serves as an experienced technical contributor responsible for designing, developing, testing, implementing, and supporting complex software solutions for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). This role works across the full application lifecycle, contributing to technical design decisions, application modernization, and delivery of strategic technology initiatives. Job-Specific Responsibilities: Design, develop, test, implement, and support complex Oracle APEX applications, PL/SQL packages, procedures, functions, views, and related database objects.  Lead technical design discussions and...

The Computational Policy Lab at the Shorenstein Center at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with specialized expertise in software development, generative AI, and data science. This position is housed within the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. Through teaching and research at the Harvard Kennedy School and its program of visiting fellows, conferences and initiatives, the Center is at the forefront of its area of inquiry. Job-Specific Responsibilities: Core responsibilities encompass specialized tasks including:  Independently perform complex applications/web development for projects of large to very large size and complexity  Design and develop complex software systems for large-scale research projects, with a focus on education technology, the delivery of public benefits, and generative AI-based tools.  Leverage recent breakthroughs in machine learning and natural language processing to build, test, and deploy...

Job-Specific Responsibilities: The AI Automation Quality Engineer leads the next generation of quality engineering for the my.harvard portal, moving beyond traditional QA to design intelligent, agent-based testing capabilities that automatically analyze requirements, understand application code, generate reusable test assets, and continuously improve HUIT’s testing strategy. This role combines strong software testing experience with modern AI engineering concepts, including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), large language models (LLMs), agentic workflows, and test automation frameworks. Working closely with Business Analysts, developers, and product owners, the AI Automation Quality Engineer helps build an autonomous QA platform that accelerates delivery while improving software quality. AI-Powered Test Generation: Design and implement AI agents that read Jira user stories, acceptance criteria, architectural documentation, and business rules to automatically generate...

Job Summary: Design, plan, and implement software and data services that support and enrich research productivity and reliability. Develop software and data services with researchers to ensure that modern standards of reproducible research are kept. Job-Specific Responsibilities: This position reports to the Director of Data Science and Product Research at IQSS and, occasionally, co-reports to other Directors of IQSS depending on specific products. This position manages the design, the implementation and delivery of QA processes, programs and policies for several products at IQSS: those developed or forked by our development and IT teams. In particular, this position supports both the Dataverse open source project and its instance called Harvard Dataverse Repository. It may also support other IQSS products, as needed.  It is responsible for the execution and coordination of QA testing activities, performs troubleshooting, and identifies and reports issues to the...