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Much of the early development has been performed by researchers and domain experts who are excellent technical contributors, but the codebase, release process, documentation, testing, and deployment workflows require additional structure, consistency, and operational rigor.\r\nThe Software Release Manager will help move AmSC capabilities from research code and prototype implementations into reliable, maintainable, tested, documented, and deployable software releases. 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