CIRES is on the lookout for a software program developer or pc scientist with expertise managing massive knowledge units, creating novel consumer interfaces, automating processing pipelines, and describing knowledge and datasets with commonplace metadata.
Date posted
Feb. 6, 2023 4:15 pm
Software deadline
Mar. 6, 2023 5:00 pm
Group
CIRES on the College of Colorado Boulder
Location
Job description
The Cooperative Institute for Analysis in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) on the College of Colorado in Boulder has a right away opening for a House Climate Knowledge Supervisor / Software program Engineer working with the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Nationwide Facilities for Environmental Data (NCEI). NCEI is a globally acknowledged repository and supplier of long-term geophysical, area climate, and marine knowledge. This place is positioned inside NCEI’s Photo voltaic and Terrestrial Physics (STP) department. STP is liable for knowledge stewardship and product improvement for area climate devices on satellites together with the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES), the Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites (POES), the Protection Meteorological Satellite tv for pc Program (DMSP), and the Deep House Local weather Observatory (DSCOVR). Knowledge administration at NCEI is targeted on offering assist to customers together with NOAA’s House Climate Prediction Heart, US Air Pressure, authorities businesses, academia, and lots of worldwide organizations.
CIRES is on the lookout for a software program developer or pc scientist with expertise managing massive knowledge units, creating novel consumer interfaces, automating processing pipelines, and describing knowledge and datasets with commonplace metadata. The individual on this place might be a member of the STP knowledge administration staff. The profitable candidate will collaborate as a part of a staff of scientists and software program engineers that course of and steward satellite tv for pc area climate knowledge, serving international knowledge customers by offering discovery and entry for knowledge and derived scientific merchandise. The profitable candidate will use their abilities and insights to assist our staff to develop improved scientific and knowledge administration merchandise.
Who We Are
The NCEI-STP area climate staff is liable for oversight of the NOAA area climate sensors on a number of satellite tv for pc constellations, together with GOES, DSCOVR, and SWFO. These missions present knowledge vital for NOAA’s Nationwide Climate Service (NWS) House Climate Prediction Heart (SWPC) efforts to guard life and property, in addition to to the broader scientific neighborhood. The area climate staff’s tasks embrace calibration and validation of area climate measurements and knowledge merchandise, improvement of scientific processing algorithms utilized in actual time to supply knowledge for forecasters, improvement of retrospective algorithms to create scientifically authoritative (‘finest’) merchandise, and prototyping real-time processing techniques.
What Your Key Duties Will Be
- Facilitate the ingest, archive, and distribution of knowledge collected by NOAA satellites and different space-weather statement platforms.
- Establish methods to enhance and improve ingest and entry techniques and help in implementing these modifications.
- Develop and preserve scripts to boost the automation of operational processes.
- Draft and preserve exterior (e.g., tutorials, READMEs) and inner (e.g., procedures, coverage) documentation.
- Create metadata in commonplace codecs (together with ISO) to drive discovery providers for large knowledge.
- Populate on-line databases and create web sites to allow discovery and entry for area climate knowledge merchandise.
- Collaborate with the area climate staff, together with different knowledge managers and software program engineers.
- Help researchers and the general public relating to NOAA’s area climate knowledge.
- Perceive technological advances and finest practices in knowledge stewardship and knowledge sciences.
- Monitor and enhance knowledge repositories and providers.
- Keep a fundamental understanding of the science knowledge within the archive
- Bachelor’s Diploma in House Science, Laptop Science, Software program Engineering, or a associated area.
- At the very least 3 years of expertise managing knowledge.
- At the very least 3 years of expertise creating software program.
- As a result of requirement to entry export-controlled knowledge and data, solely U.S. residents, lawful everlasting residents (inexperienced playing cards), or different protected people (i.e., individuals designated as an asylee, refugee, or a brief resident beneath amnesty provisions) are eligible for rent.
- Capability to speak clearly and successfully in each oral and written codecs.
- Sturdy data of Linux/UNIX working techniques, together with bash and commonplace editors.
- Capability to establish and troubleshoot points with knowledge storage volumes and system efficiency.
- Experience utilizing Python for knowledge administration, knowledge validation and automating processes.
- Proficiency creating software program utilizing object-oriented design ideas, software program finest practices, and model management.
- Capability to perform technical duties totally and precisely inside time constraints.
- Capability to successfully work each independently and as a part of a various and inclusive workforce.
- Capability to creatively problem-solve, productively handle a number of duties, and thrive in a extremely interactive staff atmosphere.
- Capability to write down technical documentation and agreements.
- Please notice that whereas the place particulars each required and most well-liked abilities and expertise, we invite candidates to use even when they don’t have the popular abilities and expertise outlined on this “What We Would Like You To Have” part. In the event you meet the necessities and have ardour for the work, you’re inspired to use. We encourage on the job coaching for any extra abilities or data that develop into related to the place.
- Expertise with massive scientific knowledge units and data-science matters.
- Expertise with knowledge acquisition, processing, monitoring, plotting, and visualization.
- Expertise with metadata and knowledge alternate requirements, e.g. NetCDF, FITS, JSON, XML.
- Expertise creating web sites utilizing trendy Javascript frameworks.
- Expertise creating and utilizing REST APIs.
- Expertise creating, querying and managing SQL databases.
- Expertise utilizing cloud-based providers and creating cloud-enabled purposes.
- Familiarity with unit testing, integration testing, and steady integration.
- Familiarity with Heliophysics (photo voltaic and area physics, together with area climate).
The College of Colorado Boulder is dedicated to constructing a culturally numerous neighborhood of school, workers, and college students devoted to contributing to an inclusive campus atmosphere. We’re an Equal Alternative employer, together with veterans and people with disabilities.
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