Scientific Software Engineer

Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI) is seeking a full-time Scientific Software Engineer for a federal customer’s earth science data enterprise, expected to be the next generation in space geodetic observing. This position will be in Greenbelt, MD.

Responsibilities:

• Process incoming data and derived product files
• Develop new automated software to support the archiving and distribution of new data sets.
• Monitor real-time caster streams and add new streams as they become available.
• Maintain and verify CDDIS databases using the query language and utilities of the MariaDB database software.
• Perform database administration and maintenance tasks as required.
• Develop improved metrics collection, processing, and delivery.

Required Qualifications:

Desired Qualifications:

• Proficiency in OOP languages such as C, C++, or Java also.
• Cloud-based service technology and usage.
• Basic familiarity with AWS, especially deploying Lambda function.
• Experience querying SQL databases Proficiency in SQL.
• Experience working with large scientific datasets and a variety of data formats.
• Experience in Atlassian scrum ecosystem (Bitbucket, Jira, etc.)
• Strong oral and written communication skills.

EOE, including disability/vets

Physical Requirements: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and use hands to touch, handle or feel objects, tools or controls. The employee frequently is required to talk and hear and occasionally required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.