Front End Software Engineer

Requisition Id13702

Overview and Purpose:
The Integrated Computational Earth Sciences (ICES) Group in the Computational Sciences and Engineering Division (CSED) is seeking a Front End Software Engineer to design, develop, and deploy user-facing technologies to facilitate data discovery, access, and analysis of geospatial data from Earth system models across multiple spatial and temporal scales for the next generation Earth System Grid Federation 2 - US (ESGF2-US) Project. The successful candidate will apply technical expertise and user interface/user experience skills to develop and support tools (e.g., web apps) and algorithms (e.g., large language models) that facilitate discovery and use of data for analysis, downscaling, and artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) methods. CSED focuses on transdisciplinary computational science and analytics at scale to enable scientific discovery across the physical sciences, engineered systems, and biomedicine and health. It develops community applications, data assets, and technologies and provides assurance to build knowledge and impact in novel, crosscut-science outcomes.

The candidate will be a technical staff member within the ICES Group of the Advanced Computing Methods for Physical Sciences Section in CSED. ICES is focused on the conduct of world-class research and development in Earth system modeling; model-data integration, large scale data management, analytics and machine learning; and model benchmarking at DOE's Leadership Computing Facilities (LCFs) and its National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). The ICES Group has specific strengths in numerical methods, simulation, data management, and analysis focused on terrestrial biogeochemistry and hydrology, atmospheric and ocean dynamics, aerosols, regional climate, ice sheets and sea level rise, and the global carbon cycle.

Major Duties/Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with a diverse and multidisciplinary and international team of software architects and engineers, computational scientists, and Earth system modelers across DOE labs in developing and deploying a deep stack of software to support ESGF2-US.

• Design, develop, and implement software for user interfaces for data discovery and access and data workflows assuring provenance and integrity.

• Develop technical papers and documentation and support user needs with documentation, tutorials, and hackathons.

Basic Qualifications:

• B.S. degree in data science, computer science, computational science, or related technical subjects or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• 1+ years of experience developing data management or analysis tools or user interface software.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience designing and developing web-based user interfaces with JavaScript, ReactJS, and related tools.

• Experience with Python, R, and Jupyter/JupyterHub, PuTorch, and TensorFlow.

• Familiarity with collaborative development methodologies and development automation tools, including Git/GitHub and Slack.

• Knowledge of large scale scientific data management, discovery, distribution, and archiving, as well as FAIR data principles and the Open Science practices.

• Knowledge of commonly used data file formats and conventions (e.g., netCDF, HDF, CF, CMIP Controlled Vocabularies), geographic information system formats, geospatial transformations, and OGC standards and resources.

• Strong motivation to support DOE and international researchers through innovative solutions.

• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse and multidisciplinary scientists and engineers.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to report regular progress and support user documentation, tutorials, and hackathons.

Relocation:

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