PNSN SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Req #: | 172781 |
Department: | EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCES |
Job Location: | Seattle Campus |
Posting Date: | 10/02/2019 |
Closing Info: | Open Until Filled |
Salary: | Salary is commensurate with education and experience. |
Shift: | First Shift |
UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits and natural beauty. All of which has allowed the UW to be nationally recognized as a “Great College to Work For” for six consecutive years.
The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network has an outstanding opportunity for a Software Engineer to support our real-time seismic monitoring projects.
PNSN monitors earthquakes in the states of Washington and Oregon for public safety and scientific research. We operate about 450 remote seismic stations throughout the region. Data from these remote sites are transmitted to the UW continuously in real time to our processing and alerting center at the UW Seattle. The data are processed through several applications to provide a series of products, including real-time warnings of imminent shaking (called ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning), earthquake locations and sizes, distribution of strong shaking, and raw data archived for scientific and engineering studies. The Software Engineer position is critical for further development and testing of our real-time processing and analysis codes, as well as programs to improve system health monitoring.
The successful applicant will work within a small team of scientists, software engineers, and computer specialists at PNSN and with ShakeAlert developers at partner institutions: CalTech, UC Berkeley, and the USGS. An exciting challenge for the Software Engineer is to work within a real-time and continuous production framework.
Responsibilities:
•Create and implement software solutions to turn experimental research methods into high-performance, production-ready code.
•Redesign and refactor existing code to improve efficiency, operability, and performance while maintaining high-quality and reproducible results.
•Enforce and assure the quality of software products through the use of continuous integration, automated unit testing, code versioning, and code coverage tools.
•Help to develop and follow a system of APIs, including RESTful web services and C++ libraries, to enable greater efficiency.
•Technical writing, to document code for other developers as well as write user documentation.
•Maintain, update, and monitor operational software.
•Determine appropriate tools to use, including languages, frameworks, data structures, data stores.
As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For detailed information on Benefits for this position, click here.
Requirements:
•Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, a quantitative Science, or equivalent
AND At least three years of professional software development in an operational environment.
•Fluency in Python
•Fluency in C/C++
•Ability to work as part of a team to plan, organize, and execute technical projects
•Familiarity with the development to deployment workflow using agile methodologies, continuous integration, code reviews, and test environments.
•Ability to work with legacy code
•Unix/Linux skills including scripting
•Database application development
•Demonstrated organizational skills, self-motivation, flexibility, strong communication skills, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, energetic, highly creative, environment
Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except where there are legal requirements such as license/certification/registration.
Desirable:
•Experience with real-time data flow and 24/7 operational requirements.
•Experience with cloud infrastructure and software deployments
•Solid math or physics skills
•Experience in scientific software packages such as scipy, pandas, and numpy, sklearn, tensorflow, or interest in learning them.
•Familiarity with Java
•Familiarity with Javascript
•Familiarity with Django or similar framework.
•Familiarity with Machine Learning workflows
•Experience with PostgreSQL
•Interest in Earth Science and Earthquake Early Warning and near real-time algorithms
Application Process:
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