  At Sandia National Laboratories, the Software Engineering and Research
Department seeks to provide sustainable career pathways for research software
engineers (RSEs). The conceptual model for our organization follows what we
call a Research, Develop, and Deploy (RDD) workflow pattern, enabling RSEs to
partner with research and deployment specialists. We argue that this
interdisciplinary model allows our department to act as an incubator and an
accelerator for impactful ideas. We describe these tactics and our experiences
as a RSE team in a scientific computing center.
