<div dir="ltr"><br>Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 13:14:11 -0400<br>From: Forrest Hoffman <<a href="mailto:forrest@CLIMATEMODELING.ORG">forrest@CLIMATEMODELING.ORG</a>><br>Subject: Vacancy: Earth System Model Developer<br>
<br>*Job Posting Title**:*<br>Earth System Model Developer / NB50440778<br><br>*Posted Date**:*<br>07/22/2014<br><br>*End Posting Date**:*<br>09/30/2014<br><br>*Purpose**:*<br>The Computer Science and Mathematics Division in the Computing and<br>
Computational Sciences Directorate and the Climate Change Science<br>Institute (<a href="http://climatechangescience.ornl.gov/" target="_blank">http://climatechangescience.ornl.gov/</a>) at the Oak Ridge<br>National Laboratory (ORNL) seeks to hire an Earth System Model Developer.<br>
<br>*Major Duties/Responsibilities**:*<br>The successful candidate will work collaboratively on several projects<br>with a highly diverse and multidisciplinary team of environmental,<br>ecological, remote sensing, climate, and computational scientists at<br>
ORNL's Climate Change Science Institute (CCSI), other DOE Labs, the USDA<br>Forest Service, NASA, and partner universities to develop and evaluate<br>terrestrial and marine biogeochemical model components within coupled<br>
Earth system models (ESMs). The candidate will join a growing team<br>within CCSI focused on model-data integration. As such, the candidate<br>will design, develop, and test new algorithms for carbon and nutrient<br>cycling in the Community Land Model (CLM), develop tools for evaluating<br>
multiple model performance through comparison with a wide variety of<br>data sets, and develop methods and tools for analysis and integration of<br>field data, model results, and remotely sensed imagery in an Open Source<br>
environment. The candidate will conduct research and report results in<br>open literature journals, technical reports, and at relevant conferences.<br><br>*Qualifications Required**:*<br>A Ph.D. degree in an Earth or environmental science discipline, computer<br>
science, or civil or environmental engineering is required. Software<br>engineering skills and experience developing parallel algorithms using<br>MPI and OpenMP in Fortran-90/Fortran-2003 and C/C++ are required. Proven<br>
analytical skills and experience using R or Python and NCL are required.<br>Experience preparing documents using LaTeX in a Linux or Unix<br>environment is a must. Excellent interpersonal skills for working within<br>a highly diverse team, strong oral and written communications skills,<br>
good organizational skills, and high personal motivation are all necessary.<br><br>*Desired Qualifications:*<br>Experience using revision control systems, including Mercurial and Git,<br>and tracking issues with Trac or Jira are desired. Experience using R,<br>
Python, PostgreSQL, NCO, CDO, Matlab, IDL/ENVI, and UV-CDAT is<br>preferred. Familiarity with NetCDF and HDF files and application<br>programming interfaces and the Climate and Forecasting (CF) conventions<br>is preferred. Candidates with knowledge of land-atmosphere interactions<br>
or atmospheric turbulence, and experience with atmospheric transport<br>models are preferred. Experience running regional and/or global climate<br>or Earth system models on large supercomputers is desired. Spatial<br>analysis skills using GRASS/GDAL and experience processing remote<br>
sensing imagery, particularly from MODIS and LANDSAT, is desired.<br><br>For more information, visit <a href="http://www.ornl.gov/ornl/careers" target="_blank">http://www.ornl.gov/ornl/careers</a> or e-mail<br><a href="mailto:ORNLRecruiting@ornl.gov">ORNLRecruiting@ornl.gov</a>. ORNL is an equal opportunity employer. All<br>
qualified applicants, including individuals with disabilities and<br>protected veterans, are encouraged to apply. UT-Battelle is an E-Verify<br>Employer.<br><br>--<br>Forrest Hoffman <a href="mailto:forrest@climatemodeling.org">forrest@climatemodeling.org</a><br>
Oak Ridge National Laboratory <a href="http://www.climatemodeling.org/~forrest" target="_blank">http://www.climatemodeling.org/~forrest</a><br>Computational Earth Sciences Group <a href="tel:%28865%29%20576-7680" value="+18655767680">(865) 576-7680</a> voice<br>
Building 2040, Room E249, MS 6301 <a href="tel:%28865%29%20574-9501" value="+18655749501">(865) 574-9501</a> fax<br>P.O. Box 2008 Deliveries: One Bethel Valley Road<br>Oak Ridge TN 37831-6301 35° 55' 23" N 84° 19' 20" W<br>
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