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Title: Scientific Software Engineer<br>
Responsible to: President<br>
Location: Burlington, VT (preferred). Ann Arbor, MI
(considered)<br>
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ISciences, L.L.C. is a Michigan based limited liability
corporation founded in 1997 with offices in Ann Arbor MI,
Burlington VT, and Washington, DC. We believe in the power of
evidence based analysis to understand vulnerabilities and
achieve sustainability in a rapidly changing world. Our core
strength is the ability to integrate expertise in the physical
sciences, the social sciences, and information technology to
solve our customers' problems.<br>
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ISciences provides strategic, scientific and technical
consulting services to a variety of government, commercial and
non-profit clients in the fields of sustainable development,
vulnerability assessment, remote sensing, and geospatial
analysis. Our contributions influence policy decisions at some
of the world's largest companies and at the highest reaches of
government. ISciences has four principal areas of practice:
Water and Climate, Corporate Sustainability, Remote Sensing, and
Human Security.<br>
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For more information, visit <a
href="http://caution-www.isciences.com/" rel="noreferrer"
target="_blank">www.isciences.com/</a>. To apply, please send
a resume and cover letter to <a href="mailto:info@isciences.com">info@isciences.com</a><mailto:<a
href="mailto:info@isciences.com">info<wbr>@isciences.com</a>>
by <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">Friday,
April 28, 2017</span></span>.<br>
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Summary of Position:<br>
The Scientific Software Engineer will be a member of a team that
performs quantitative sustainability and vulnerability
assessments for a variety of U.S. government and commercial
clients. These analyses tend to focus on climatic stresses,
freshwater shortages and surplus, water quality, and political
instability; cover large geographic areas (e.g., global or
continental scale), and use data derived from satellite remote
sensing, geospatial analysis, and quantitative environmental,
social, political, economic indicators.<br>
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Duties:<br>
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1. Provide scientific software engineering and programming in
support of wide area, geographically explicit sustainability and
vulnerability assessments using Java, R, Python, Kepler, and
related software platforms.<br>
2. Transition research code to reliable user-friendly
open-source projects using best practice software engineering
and tool sets such as gitlab.<br>
3. Develop, deploy and maintain web-based data delivery
services using open source database, geospatial, and web
development stacks.<br>
4. Write compelling documentation and analytical reports for
a broad range of users, including government and corporate
decision makers.<br>
5. Other duties as assigned.<br>
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Qualifications:<br>
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1. Master degree or equivalent experience in environmental
science, computer science, mathematics, political science, or
related discipline.<br>
2. Demonstrated interest and ability to engineer and develop
complex scientific software that performs state of the art
geospatial and statistical analysis.<br>
3. Demonstrated interest and ability to develop and maintain
open source software packages.<br>
4. Demonstrated interest and ability to engineer and develop
sophisticated web-based delivery systems for complex time-series
geospatial data and information.<br>
5. Demonstrated interest and ability to document complex
software packages.<br>
6. Demonstrated interest and ability to present complex
scientific information in compelling written and oral form.<br>
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Compensation: Competitive salaries and benefits, with flexible
work schedules.<br>
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U.S. Citizenship Required<br>
ISciences is an Equal Opportunity Employer<br>
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<br>
ISciences<br>
Water and Climate, Corporate Sustainability, Remote Sensing,
Human Security<br>
<br>
Thomas M. Parris<br>
President<br>
ISciences, L.L.C.<br>
61 Main Street, Suite 200<br>
Burlington, VT 05401<br>
<a href="tel:%28802%29%20864-2999" value="+18028642999">(802)
864-2999</a>; <a href="mailto:parris@isciences.com">parris@isciences.com</a>;
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