Senior Software Engineer, Sage Grande Testbed

🇺🇸 Remote - Chicago, Illinois 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $100K - $140K 💻 Software Engineering 🗓️ October 14th, 2026

Linux Kubernetes Python

Edtech.com's Summary

Colorado State University is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Sage Grande Testbed to build and run the software behind a national-scale artificial intelligence testbed. The engineer develops tooling for a fleet of AI-enabled edge devices that is growing from 150 to 500 nodes, along with the cloud infrastructure and data pipelines that support it. The position also sets technical direction and works with research users and outside collaborators to meet their node and data needs.

Highlights

Design and develop software to operate and scale a distributed network of AI-enabled edge computing nodes as the fleet grows from 150 to 500 devices.
Build custom tooling, infrastructure, and deployment technologies that keep the device fleet, cloud infrastructure, and data pipelines running reliably at scale.
Contribute to technical planning and partner with the distributed team on monitoring, infrastructure, and cybersecurity decisions.
Mentor students and junior engineers, and lead a small team of one or two junior engineers that is expected to grow.
Work with key collaborators to make sure the testbed meets their expectations for nodes and data.
Set up and manage support ticket systems for platform and device issues, and maintain code and system documentation and certificate renewals.
Hold a bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field plus five years of experience supporting code, services, and deployments in production.
Bring fluency in Linux, including scripting, user management, networking, package management, SSH, and debugging, along with fluency in software engineering.
Work remotely while hosted in Chicago at Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory, and routinely travel between those sites and the University of Illinois Chicago.
Earn a salary of $100,000 to $140,000 per year.