I. M. Systems Group Inc. (IMSG) a science-based company providing professional scientific and technical support to the Federal government is leading a Team of prestigious companies to pursue the five-year service contract to support the NOAA Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC). EPICs mission is to advance weather modeling skill reclaim and maintain international leadership for U.S. in numerical weather prediction and improve the transition of research into operations. The general objective and scope are to provide state-of-the-art software architecture software engineering and scientific and technical support services to maintain and continuously expand the community modeling infrastructure that facilitates robust user support and easy access for advanced physics-based and machine learning (ML) based Earth system models (ESMs). This includes applications and components in the framework of the Unified Forecast System (UFS) a community-based coupled comprehensive Earth modeling system spanning spatial scales from local to global and temporal scales from hourly to seasonal forecast scales.Work location is remote or hybrid.
We are recruiting highly qualified candidates to fill the Chief Software Engineer position with the following responsibilities and requirements:
- Participates in software engineering efforts that will lead to UFS code improvement services in collaboration with in an integrated cross-disciplinary environment to ensure that the UFS code is easily maintainable extensible and performance optimized.
- Ensures comprehensive code and science-based documentation.
- Provides services and support for the development and integration of scientific software components development and use of tools for user support requests.
- Develops and maintains user-facing documentation such as users guides release notes known issues tutorials and developers guides.
- Delivers scientific software and HPC oriented training and tutorials both online and in person;
- Designs provides and supports scientific code hackathons sprints and workshops and develops and maintains infrastructure to help enable culture change toward community development R2O/O2R and other approaches such as web presence innovation hubs and other social media.
- Employs modularity the design principle known as separation of concerns (SoC).
- Develops and executes clear project deliverables and success metrics.
- Develops continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines for EPIC software development.
- Additional responsibilities: Leads and coordinate software engineering efforts that will lead to UFS code improvement services in collaboration within an integrated cross-disciplinary environment to ensure that the UFS code is easily maintainable extensible and performance optimized. Working with the PM Chief Scientist and Chief System Architect identifying and collaborating with key stakeholders in the NWP and the ESM communities to identify future strategic directions to advance NWP in an ESM framework; working with the product manager ensures that capabilities developed by the contract are advancing the highest priority science-based outcomes of stakeholders.
REQUIRED/PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
(A subset of the following experience/background/skills):
- MS or PhD degree in Earth system science disciplines (including atmospheric sciences oceanic science geophysics numerical modeling) computing and other relevant fields. BS degrees in these fields with demonstrated experience will be considered.
- Experience with numerical modeling development for Earths atmosphere ocean land surface and cryosphere.
- Experience developing scientific software and software infrastructure for use with Earth system models.
- Proficient with scientific programming languages (e.g. FORTRAN C/C Python etc.) shell scripts etc.
- Knowledge and experience with the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) or similar modeling system architecture.
- Experience with high performance computing (HPC) environments and cloud computing for ESM.
- Knowledge of software engineering methodologies (such as containerization etc.) for data intensive modeling applications.
- Knowledge of AI/ML methodology and techniques for ESM at global and/or regional scales.
- Excellent communications and presentation skills.
- Incumbent working experience at NOAA/EPIC highly preferred.
- Minimum years of relevant experience: eight.
- U.S. citizenship or green card is required.
TO APPLY:
Please apply online at IM Systems Group Inc. Current Opportunities ()
Please submit your resume your salary requirement and a brief cover letter with the specific one or multiple positions you are applying for consideration indicating the following in the subject: NEPIC2504d EPIC- CSE
IMSG is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Veteran friendly.
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