Difficulty hiring candidates with both domain and software expertise
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The reporter is struggling to find candidates who possess both specialized academic domain expertise and professional software engineering skills, forcing a choice between training domain experts in software or training software engineers in complex domain knowledge.
What people do today
- Hiring domain experts and providing internal software engineering training
- Hiring software engineers and attempting to teach them complex domain knowledge
- Accepting suboptimal software quality from domain experts
🔧 Fix this
Ideas a builder, maker or community group could start on:
- A specialized mentorship platform connecting academic researchers with software engineering mentors for structured, domain-relevant coding curriculum.
- A standardized 'bridge' certification program that teaches core software engineering best practices specifically for scientists and researchers.
- A recruitment marketplace that vets and highlights candidates who have successfully transitioned from academic research to software engineering roles.
Real voices
“The intersection of domain expertise required and good SWE skills unfortunately seems to be 0 in some cases.”
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