The Cooperative Institute for Extreme and Excessive-Influence Climate Analysis and Operations (CIWRO) on the College of Oklahoma at the moment is looking for a analysis scientist to collaborate with scientists within the Nationwide Extreme Storms Laboratory’s (NSSL) Warning Analysis & Improvement Division on the event of radar-based information units to be used within the improvement and analysis of machine studying purposes for detecting and predicting extreme convective storms and their related hazards.
Date posted
Feb. 13, 2023 12:00 pm
Utility deadline
Mar. 13, 2023 5:00 pm
Group
CIWRO on the College of Oklahoma
Location
Job description
The Cooperative Institute for Extreme and Excessive-Influence Climate Analysis and Operations (CIWRO) on the College of Oklahoma at the moment is looking for a analysis scientist to collaborate with scientists within the Nationwide Extreme Storms Laboratory’s (NSSL) Warning Analysis & Improvement Division on the event of radar-based information units to be used within the improvement and analysis of machine studying purposes for detecting and predicting extreme convective storms and their related hazards.
The duties of the place are:
- Lead the event of machine studying algorithms for detection and nowcasting extreme convective hazards
- Conduct the preliminary exploratory evaluation of radar-based information units and creating visualizations of abstract statistics for the info
- Analysis of latest or present algorithms which have purposes in the direction of the detection of extreme convection and related hazards
- Lead the event of huge radar-based information units, particularly Multi-Radar Multi- Sensor (MRMS)-based information units
- Attend conferences {and professional} conferences to current analysis outcomes and work together with collaborators and customers
- Meet with collaborators and supply common summaries of labor achieved
- Assessment technical {and professional} publications and attend seminars to remain abreast of present developments in meteorological and distant sensing science.
The minimal {qualifications} for the place are:
- PhD in Meteorology, Laptop Science or Knowledge Science or associated fields
- Demonstrated expertise with statistical software program programming (resembling R or related packages in Python) and/or machine studying programming (resembling scikit- study or Tensorflow, or related packages inside R)
Candidates ought to establish experience with any of the next areas: information science, huge information, machine studying; climate radar information and rules; extreme native storms and their attendant hazards; programming; statistics; supercomputing and/or cloud computing. Sturdy oral and written communication abilities are wanted for the place, together with the flexibility to current analysis to numerous audiences and collaborate on experiences and publications.
Regular working hours shall be noticed besides for infrequent irregular hours throughout information assortment, warning/forecast experiments, or workshops performed at distant websites. Supervision shall be offered by CIWRO employees. Technical oversight shall be offered by CIWRO employees, NSSL scientists, and NSSL administration. The incumbent will work below basic supervision however is predicted to find out motion to be taken in dealing with all however uncommon conditions. Incumbents on this place will not be anticipated to oversee different staff however could function technical crew leads and supervise college students.
Incumbents may have alternatives to obtain coaching and acquire experience within the newest radar and different distant sensing expertise, and, as wanted by the place’s technical necessities, technical abilities associated to programming, information science, and machine studying. Incumbents may also have alternatives for profession improvement by sources offered by the College; extra data could also be discovered at https://hr.ou.edu/Workers/Profession-Improvement.
The start wage shall be primarily based on {qualifications} and expertise with College advantages. Info on advantages could also be discovered at https://hr.ou.edu/. The place shall be situated in Norman, OK (https://www.normanok.gov/about-norman) on the Nationwide Climate Middle (https://www.ou.edu/nwc).
To use for the place, please ahead your resume, cowl letter and checklist of three references to:
CIWRO Careers College of Oklahoma CIWRO
120 David L. Boren Blvd., Suite 2100 Norman, OK 73072-7304
ATTN: VORTEX-USA Knowledge Science RS
The College of Oklahoma is an equal alternative/Affirmative Motion employer.
