Overview
On Site
USD 65.00 - 75.00 per hour
Full Time
Skills
HPC
Command-line Interface
Testing
Cloud Computing
GPU
Documentation
Sketch
Reporting
Value Engineering
Kubernetes
Genomics
Google Analytics (GA4)
Writing
Computational Science
Rust
C++
Workflow
Open Source
GitHub
Taxes
Life Insurance
Collaboration
Partnership
Business Transformation
Law
Job Details
Description
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is looking for a Sr.-level Rust engineer for a contract opportunity supporting a Sprocket project. Briefly, Sprocket is an open workflow execution engine written in Rust-it enables scientists, who are generally not experts at scaling and deploying large-scale computation, to write simple workflow descriptions using the Workflow Description Language and effortlessly scale those computations locally, on an HPC, or in the cloud. We wrote Sprocket to power the effortless execution of large-scale scientific analyses. The underlying goal for this opportunity is to help us close the gap between what Sprocket is today vs. what we want Sprocket to become in the future by contributing to multiple open-source projects. In practice, this means contributing to three different areas of open-source projects. Working on Sprocket and related crates. The Sprocket command line tool consists of a set of crates developed for lexing, parsing, validating, linting, formatting, testing, and executing Workflow Description Language documents. The relevant codebases are spread out across the St. Jude Rust Labs GitHub organization (link), but the main ones are the wdl, sprocket, and crankshaft repositories. This area of development would include contributing to new or existing crates in the ecosystem to further build out the Sprocket workflow execution engine. Improving the Workflow Description Language (WDL) specification. For Sprocket to be successful, the underlying WDL specification needs to contain facilities for expressing or carrying out all of the necessary functions in large-scale workflow execution. To that end, the existing workflow description specification (a) is missing parts required to truly enable large-scale development in the cluster and cloud (e.g., specifying requirements for GPU nodes) and (b) has many parts that could be radically improved (e.g., documentation as comments, adding enumerations, adding and if-else statement). In turn, this opportunity will include working on contributing to and improving the WDL specification (link)-working with our team internally to sketch out the proposed changes, writing up the changes as part of the official WDL ratification process, and shepherding the proposals through to approval. The contractor will regularly report back this progress to the team and ensure that all relevant code in Sprocket and related crates is kept in step with the proposed changes (perhaps doing some of that work themselves). Improving the Task Execution Schema (TES) specification. Similarly, the interface for submitting tasks for execution to a backend uses the TES specification. We've done an initial prototype of our own Kubernetes submission backend built on top of TES, and we have accumulated enough improvement ideas that we feel like a TES v2.0 project is necessary. Thus, this contractor would interact with the governance groups at the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH)-the standards body for this specification-as well as all of the activities listed above for the WDL specification improvements (gathering improvements to be made by talking to team members, writing those up and pull requests or proposals, and shepherding the proposals through to approval).
Skills
Rust, C++, Workflow Description Language, WDL, Task Execution Schema, TES, open source, GitHub, Swagger, Scientific Computing
Top Skills Details
Rust,C++,Workflow Description Language,WDL,Task Execution Schema,TES,open source,GitHub,Swagger
Additional Skills & Qualifications
Candidates must have proven work (i.e. web portfolios, GitHub, etc.) demonstrating their capabilities as it aligns to the job description. Two references that will be provided to the customer.
Experience Level
Expert Level
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $65.00 - $75.00/hr.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job
classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be
subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits
available for this temporary role may include the following:
Medical, dental & vision
Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
Short and long-term disability
Health Spending Account (HSA)
Transportation benefits
Employee Assistance Program
Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Workplace Type
This is a fully remote position.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Aug 8, 2025.
>About TEKsystems:
We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services
We're a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We're a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We're strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We're building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is looking for a Sr.-level Rust engineer for a contract opportunity supporting a Sprocket project. Briefly, Sprocket is an open workflow execution engine written in Rust-it enables scientists, who are generally not experts at scaling and deploying large-scale computation, to write simple workflow descriptions using the Workflow Description Language and effortlessly scale those computations locally, on an HPC, or in the cloud. We wrote Sprocket to power the effortless execution of large-scale scientific analyses. The underlying goal for this opportunity is to help us close the gap between what Sprocket is today vs. what we want Sprocket to become in the future by contributing to multiple open-source projects. In practice, this means contributing to three different areas of open-source projects. Working on Sprocket and related crates. The Sprocket command line tool consists of a set of crates developed for lexing, parsing, validating, linting, formatting, testing, and executing Workflow Description Language documents. The relevant codebases are spread out across the St. Jude Rust Labs GitHub organization (link), but the main ones are the wdl, sprocket, and crankshaft repositories. This area of development would include contributing to new or existing crates in the ecosystem to further build out the Sprocket workflow execution engine. Improving the Workflow Description Language (WDL) specification. For Sprocket to be successful, the underlying WDL specification needs to contain facilities for expressing or carrying out all of the necessary functions in large-scale workflow execution. To that end, the existing workflow description specification (a) is missing parts required to truly enable large-scale development in the cluster and cloud (e.g., specifying requirements for GPU nodes) and (b) has many parts that could be radically improved (e.g., documentation as comments, adding enumerations, adding and if-else statement). In turn, this opportunity will include working on contributing to and improving the WDL specification (link)-working with our team internally to sketch out the proposed changes, writing up the changes as part of the official WDL ratification process, and shepherding the proposals through to approval. The contractor will regularly report back this progress to the team and ensure that all relevant code in Sprocket and related crates is kept in step with the proposed changes (perhaps doing some of that work themselves). Improving the Task Execution Schema (TES) specification. Similarly, the interface for submitting tasks for execution to a backend uses the TES specification. We've done an initial prototype of our own Kubernetes submission backend built on top of TES, and we have accumulated enough improvement ideas that we feel like a TES v2.0 project is necessary. Thus, this contractor would interact with the governance groups at the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH)-the standards body for this specification-as well as all of the activities listed above for the WDL specification improvements (gathering improvements to be made by talking to team members, writing those up and pull requests or proposals, and shepherding the proposals through to approval).
Skills
Rust, C++, Workflow Description Language, WDL, Task Execution Schema, TES, open source, GitHub, Swagger, Scientific Computing
Top Skills Details
Rust,C++,Workflow Description Language,WDL,Task Execution Schema,TES,open source,GitHub,Swagger
Additional Skills & Qualifications
Candidates must have proven work (i.e. web portfolios, GitHub, etc.) demonstrating their capabilities as it aligns to the job description. Two references that will be provided to the customer.
Experience Level
Expert Level
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $65.00 - $75.00/hr.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job
classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be
subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits
available for this temporary role may include the following:
Medical, dental & vision
Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
Short and long-term disability
Health Spending Account (HSA)
Transportation benefits
Employee Assistance Program
Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Workplace Type
This is a fully remote position.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Aug 8, 2025.
>About TEKsystems:
We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services
We're a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We're a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We're strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We're building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
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