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Computer Scientist II, S4

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Department: Earth System Science Center
Work type: Staff Full-time Exempt
Location: Alabama
Categories: Research - Environmental

Purpose of the Position:

The Computer Scientist will support the IMPACT Project Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) within the Lab for Applied Science (LAS) under the Earth System 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 data life cycle, including processes, policies, engineering, and information
communication.

Duties/Responsibilities
• Perform research and analyze data including the cloud acquired from aircraft, or satellites, using statistical analysis software, image analysis software, or Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
• Design and implement strategies for collection, analysis, or display of geographic data.
• Manage data obtained from remote sensing systems to develop pipelines from data centers to stakeholders.
• Develop or build databases for remote sensing or related geospatial project information.

Minimum Requirements:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, with 21 months of full-time verifiable work experience, or a related field or an equivalent combination of education and years of experience.
• Must have strong programming experience in Python, web technologies and data bases.
• Working knowledge of cloud-based systems including but not limited to AWS
• Must have strong communication skills.
• Working knowledge of satellite data sets in data science and AI framework.

Desired Qualifications:

• Proposal writing experience is preferred

Published Salary (if available):

$83,996 - $89,611

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