[ES_JOBS_NET] Scientific Software Engineer, ISciences, L.L.C., Burlington, VT (preferred). Ann Arbor, MI (considered)

[Christine Wiedinmyer]

*POSITION DESCRIPTION

Title: Scientific Software Engineer
Responsible to: President
Location: Burlington, VT (preferred).  Ann Arbor, MI (considered)

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.

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.

For more information, visit www.isciences.com/ 
<http://caution-www.isciences.com/>. To apply, please send a resume and 
cover letter to info at isciences.com 
<mailto:info at isciences.com><mailto:info at isciences.com 
<mailto:info at isciences.com>> by Friday, April 28, 2017.

Summary of Position:
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.

Duties:

   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.
   2.  Transition research code to reliable user-friendly open-source 
projects using best practice software engineering and tool sets such as 
gitlab.
   3.  Develop, deploy and maintain web-based data delivery services 
using open source database, geospatial, and web development stacks.
   4.  Write compelling documentation and analytical reports for a broad 
range of users, including government and corporate decision makers.
   5.  Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

   1.  Master degree or equivalent experience in environmental science, 
computer science, mathematics, political science, or related discipline.
   2.  Demonstrated interest and ability to engineer and develop complex 
scientific software that performs state of the art geospatial and 
statistical analysis.
   3.  Demonstrated interest and ability to develop and maintain open 
source software packages.
   4.  Demonstrated interest and ability to engineer and develop 
sophisticated web-based delivery systems for complex time-series 
geospatial data and information.
   5.  Demonstrated interest and ability to document complex software 
packages.
   6.  Demonstrated interest and ability to present complex scientific 
information in compelling written and oral form.

Compensation:  Competitive salaries and benefits, with flexible work 
schedules.


U.S. Citizenship Required
ISciences is an Equal Opportunity Employer


ISciences
Water and Climate, Corporate Sustainability, Remote Sensing, Human Security

Thomas M. Parris
President
ISciences, L.L.C.
61 Main Street, Suite 200
Burlington, VT  05401
(802) 864-2999 <tel:%28802%29%20864-2999>; parris at isciences.com 
<mailto:parris at isciences.com>; skype:tm.parris www.isciences.com 
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