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I'm talking about working in a lab as a staff programmer. Most PIs I know, myself included, would absolutely kill to be able to hire experienced people from ind

I'm talking about working in a lab as a staff programmer. Most PIs I know, myself included, would absolutely kill to be able to hire experienced people from industry to write high-quality scientific code for them. The problem is that a) traditionally, it has been hard to get funding for this, though that's slowly starting to change, and b) even when the money is there, it's always going to be a fraction (1/2, often less) of what that person could make in industry.

Gooblebrai 4y ago
First time I heard about this "staff programmer" title working in labs. Looking for it in UK job boards doesn't seem to bring many relevant results. What are other ways to find these roles? The idea of working in a lab helping scientists, if not economically rewarding, may feel rewarding in terms of helping science to progress
- WastingMyTime89 3y ago
  To give you a counterpoint to what the scientists trying to lure you are giving you, being a "staff programmer" basically means you will be paid half what you should be to go work in an environment with no process and no engineering culture where you will be seen and treated as an inferior by everyone as you are not a "proper" researcher and academia is extremely status driven.