Job Title: Geospatial Software Developer
Client: USGS GHSC Advanced National Seismic System
Location: Lakewood, CO – remote position is possible.
Travel: Occasional travel to Lakewood or conferences, possible.
Citizenship: US or Green Card / Permanent Resident – must pass a background investigation.
Education (If required): BA or BS required. Preferably in scientific discipline.
Description: The Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS) centered at the USGS National Earthquake Information Center, in Golden, Colorado, has the unique mandate to produce rapid earthquake information products for all significant earthquakes. These information products (Near-Real-Time Products) now include automatic shaking intensity maps (ShakeMaps), reported intensity maps ("Did You Feel It?") estimated losses (PAGER), Ground Failure, and ShakeCast. These systems are used by government and non-government emergency planners, responders, utility operators, transportation engineers, and other critical users for post-earthquake situational awareness and to help prioritize their level of response and inspections.
Up-to-date experience with the evolution of key operational ingredients, including geospatial libraries in Python, continuous integration/continuous deployment pipelines in GitLab, and methods for handling large datasets. Interacts frequently with a small research and development group at the USGS Geological Hazards Science Center in Golden, Colorado to provide users’ feedback to USGS and centrally implement new developments, database improvements, and improvements to the user experience. Each system requires state-of-the-art geospatial, shaking, and loss databases that require enhancements, updating, processing, and metadata developments.
Qualifications:
5+ years as a professional software developer in scientific programming, interactions with scientists, and writing well-documented, efficient, and reliable, software. Knowledge of 508 compliance rules.
Tasks:
Major Technologies/Experience:
Python, Geospatial data, GitHub source control, GitLab CI/CD pipelines, Docker, AWS, cloud deployment, C, Makefile, GMT calls
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