Try to hustle your way into a Research Software Engineer [0] role somewhere. The role isn't formally acknowledged in the U.S. (outside of Google) but you can u

Try to hustle your way into a Research Software Engineer [0] role somewhere. The role isn't formally acknowledged in the U.S. (outside of Google) but you can usually find them posted on university job boards as "Programmer/Analyst" or something similar. Downsides include crap pay and the potential for your job to spontaneously disappear after soft money [1] runs out. [0] https://rse.ac.uk/who/ https://rse.ac.uk/who/ [1] https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/30621/what-is-a-soft-money-research-position https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/30621/what-is-a...