Fall 2025 RCOS developer positions open!

Jacky Song | September 06, 2025

Project Elara is looking for developers to help out on software & hardware development for RCOS! We have lots of open positions, and we welcome any developers joining our team!

As I have previously announced, Project Elara is now an official project at RCOS. We are looking for developers to join us. While we have no prerequisites and accept developers of all skill levels, we prefer experience in one of the following areas:

• Web development & web design, particularly with experience with a static site generator like Jekyll or Hugo and Sass. This is to help maintain and improve our website and our research site, as well as our web design system
• Technical writing, to help write and maintain our Handbook, write tutorials, and draft research papers and reports
• C/C++ development, to assist in our development of C/C++ interfaces libraries such as elara-math and elara-gfx for high-performance and GPU computing. This is also important for hardware development.
• Rust development, as many of our libraries are written in Rust, though we are working on bindings to other languages (including partially complete C/C++ bindings)
• Scientific computing in at least one of Python, MATLAB, Mathematica, or Julia for working on computer simulations and numerical calculations. While not required, experience in finite element software and numerical algorithms is strongly recommended.
• GLSL/HLSL experience for writing high-performance shader code for our visualization and scientific computing libraries
• Machine learning for developing our numerical interpolation, functional transformation, and machine-learning based PDE solvers
• Embedded development, electronics, or Arduino experience to assist us in building spacecraft component prototypes and other hardware development
• Git/open-source experience as we are an open-source project

In addition, applied mathematics, physics, or engineering experience would also be very helpful, though not required. Again, we should emphasize that experience is not required and we would be glad to spend the time to bring anyone up to speed.

If you're an RPI student taking the RCOS this semester and are interested, please reach out to us, either on the RCOS server or on our discord. Make sure you do so before September 15th, as teams lock at 11:59 pm on that day. We hope you will join us!