Colleagues, please forward to scientific programmers who may be
interested in this opportunity to help improve NCO
to support netCDF4 "group" features and to work with HDF-EOS data.
http://dust.ess.uci.edu/hire/prg_anl_05_adv.pdf
A text version of the job ad is below.
Thanks,
Charlie
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Charlie Zender, Department of Earth System Science
University of California, Irvine 949-891-2429 )'(
Programmer in Scientific Computing/Data Analysis. Posted March 4, 2012.
The Climate and Scientific Computing group at UC Irvine
(www.ess.uci.edu/~zender) seeks a permanent, full time programmer with
enthusiasm for applying advanced computing techniques to global
environmental problems. We develop software to analyze climate model
and satellite data in order to improve understanding of Earth's
climate. You will: Improve robustness, optimize, document, and extend
features of the netCDF Operators (NCO, nco.sf.net), a scientific data
analysis toolkit written in C/C++ and ANTLR. Develop and maintain NCO
wrappers for files stored in the NASA-standard HDF-EOS format. Help
graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists use NCO. Track
project progress towards milestones and deliverables. Update and
maintain project web site. Perform system administration on GNU/Linux
platforms. Evaluate, purchase, install and configure computer
hardware and peripheral devices.
Required:
BS degree, or equivalent experience, in computer science, atmospheric
science, engineering, physics, mathematics, or a related discipline.
Strong skills in free-software C/C++ development (Autoconf, CVS, GCC)
in UNIX/Linux environments. Skill at written and verbal communication.
Desired:
MS degree. Knowledge of atmospheric science, chemistry, oceanography
or engineering. Knowledge of data storage standards (netCDF, HDF),
parallel programming techniques and message passing (OpenMP, MPI), and
web site design.
Consideration of applications begins March 15, 2012 and continues
until the position is filled. Rank and salary are based on
qualifications and University-wide scales. Benefits package included.
Send PDF-format statement of career objectives, CV, and contact info.
for three references to: Professor Charlie Zender (zender@xxxxxxx),
Earth System Science Dept., University of California, Irvine, CA,
92697-3100.
All application materials must be in PDF format.
