Staff Careers

The Research Scientist serves in a lead role and will provide geospatial and information technology assistance and specialization for the Inter Agency Implementation and Advanced Concepts Team (IMPACT) within the Lab for Applied Science (LAS) under the Earth Systems Science Center.

NASA's IMPACT Project Office monitors trends and progressions across the informatics, data science, and information technology communities in order to inform strategy and develop effective solutions for Earth science data management and dissemination. Additionally, the IMPACT Project Office provides a broad user perspective as to how NASA Earth science data and information are represented and communicated. The IMPACT project fosters cross-community collaborations in order to improve all phases of the Earth science

Duties/Responsibilities
• Perform comprehensive research, design, develop and implement software and system architectures across multiple projects.
• Create, develop and prepare reports as assigned and communicate in written and oral format with UAH and NASA IMPACT team members.
• Supervise hourly student workers, GRAs, junior level employees
• Present at major conferences.
• Write peer-reviewed publications.
• Write technical reports as needed.

• Master's degree in Engineering, Science, or a related field minimum of 9.5 years of full-time verifiable work experience, or an equivalent combination of education and years of experience
• Extensive experience in using satellite data sets for earth-atmosphere applications
• Working knowledge of machine learning and foundation models
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong peer reviewed publication record
• Working knowledge of data fusion and image classification

• PhD in Engineering, Science, or related field
• proposal writing experience

$125,010 - $132,250