Purpose of the Position:
The Computer Scientist III, Step 4, will provide geospatial and information technology assistance and specialization support to the Office of Data Science and Informatics (ODSI) Project Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) within the Lab for Applied Science (LAS) under the Earth System Science Center (ESSC) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH).
NASA's Office of Data Science and Informatics (ODSI) 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 ODSI Project Office provides a broad user perspective as to how NASA Earth science data and information are represented and communicated. The ODSI 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:
• Develop and implement capabilities to enable open science.
• Develop governance frameworks, best practices, guidelines, and requirements for SMD data, information, and software.
• Develop AI for Science capabilities to streamline the scientific process and to develop data-driven AI models to enhance predictive modeling and simulation.
• Develop and maintain an open science platform to enable scientific data analytics workflows.
Minimum Requirements:
• Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field; Bachelor's degree and experience in a specialized area may be substituted for a degree.
• Minimum of 3.5 years of full-time, verifiable work experience.
• Experience in scalable distributed systems.
• Knowledge and skills in programming and databases.
• Working knowledge of cloud-based applications.
Desired Qualifications:
• A track record of peer-reviewed papers is desired.
Published Salary (if available):
$99,814 - $102,500
