Thursday, March 1, 2012

Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT


 Background. The MesoWest team is part of the Mountain Meteorology Group at the University of Utah. We conduct research and development related to direct and remote sensors of environmental observations from below the ground through the boundary layer with funding from federal and state agencies and commercial firms. The MesoWest team also aggregates and archives publicly-accessible observations from many different mesonets around the country and disseminates those observations for operational, research, public, and educational applications. For further information, see http://mesowest.utah.edu

Research Associate/Programmer Position. Help design, develop and implement software to enhance MesoWest's web-based products. You will help to interface applications written in perl and Python with open source SQL databases. B.S. or M.S. degree in an environmental field with programming experience using at least several of the following: SQL/MySQL databases, perl, Python, ldm, linux scripting, API development, Javascript, HTML5, CSS3, AJAX designed web pages, mobile device support, and software version control. Other desirable skills: work experience with scientific programming languages such as IDL, Matlab, or Python Numpy and Scipy; experience with parallel or multi-threaded applications; familiarity with scientific computing and working with large data sets; knowledge or experience with numerical weather prediction modeling including National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) data products. Candidate must be self-driven, accountable under minimal supervision to reach project goals, and comfortable working in a research environment with other employees. Salary commensurate with experience. 


For the complete job announcement, go to the University of Utah’s Human Resources website: https://utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/search. Posting #PRN01533B 

For additional information send email to nola.lucke@utah.edu 

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