Building an AI-ready RSE Workforce
It tackles workforce readiness for AI in research software engineering, but is incremental as it focuses on institutional training approaches.
The paper addresses the need to prepare research software engineers for AI integration in software development, outlining challenges and opportunities, and describes the University of Florida's workforce training initiatives.
Artificial Intelligence has been transforming industries and academic research across the globe, and research software development is no exception. Machine learning and deep learning are being applied in every aspect of the research software development lifecycles, from new algorithm design paradigms to software development processes. In this paper, we discuss our views on today's challenges and opportunities that AI has presented on research software development and engineers, and the approaches we, at the University of Florida, are taking to prepare our workforce for the new era of AI.