Developing the role and career pathways of RSEs in Germany: Current perspectives and future aims

Florian Goth; Frank Löffler; Jeremy Cohen; Julian Dehne; Magnus Hagdorn; Toby Hodges; Jan Linxweiler; Aaron Reer; Jan Philipp Thiele; Harald von Waldow

doi:10.14279/eceasst.v86.1.2804

Developing the role and career pathways of RSEs in Germany

Current perspectives and future aims

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Florian Goth Institut für theoretische Physik 1, University of Würzburg https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2707-4790
Frank Löffler Heinz Nixdorf Chair for Distributed Information Systems,\\ Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6643-6323
Jeremy Cohen Imperial College London, UK https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4312-2537
Julian Dehne German Informatics Society, Berlin, Germany https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9265-9619
Magnus Hagdorn Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5076-4864
Toby Hodges The Carpentries, USA https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1766-456X
Jan Linxweiler Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2755-5087
Aaron Reer German Informatics Society, Berlin, Germany https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8140-3868
Jan Philipp Thiele Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8901-6660
Harald von Waldow Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut, Braunschweig, Germany https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4800-2833

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https://doi.org/10.14279/eceasst.v86.1.2804

Keywords:

RSE, career pathways, community, technical roles, digital research technical professional

Abstract

We report from a Birds of a Feather (BoF) session at the deRSE26 conference, where we focused on current career structures for Research Software Engineers (RSEs) in Germany and also consider international developments in Research Software Engineering. Starting from this, we distil what we, as a community, see as the most important areas where the RSE role can and should be developed in Germany, and how we think career pathways for professional RSEs can be improved.

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2026-11-02

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F. Goth, “Developing the role and career pathways of RSEs in Germany: Current perspectives and future aims”, ECEASST, vol. 86, no. 1, Nov. 2026.

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Vol. 86 No. 1 (2026): deRSE26 - Selected Contributions of the 6th Conference for Research Software Engineering in Germany (Part 1)

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