The Eric & Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment at Berkeley (DSE) is in search of 2-3 Data Scientist / Research Software Engineers who are excited to work with interdisciplinary teams and to contribute to a program's technical needs. Schmidt DSE Engineers will play a critical role in developing and delivering on all technical aspects of our given project efforts. You have a passion for helping to develop and implement data-enabled solutions, and you would be excited to see your work have an impact on the challenges facing our environment.

Candidates who would like to be considered for both senior and non-senior levels for this position are encouraged to submit applications to both openings.

To apply to this position, please visit the UC Berkeley Jobs site and follow the instructions for Data Scientist / Research Software Engineer (6104U) - #46408(link is external).

About Us

The DSE combines the power of computing and environmental science with open science principles and a commitment to inclusivity—all towards the purpose of building tangible, replicable, and accessible solutions to problems compromising the health of our environment. We aim to co-create these solutions in direct partnership with those who hold the knowledge and expertise of their local needs and environmental context.

The Center aims to contribute to the global community who are similarly working to take on these challenges in four key areas:

• Generating ground-breaking computational/data science discoveries motivated by pressing environmental questions;
• Producing scalable solutions to critical threats facing the environment, powered by open-source tools;
• Deploying these solutions widely, taking advantage of modern cloud infrastructure and open data/open software, and maintaining a design philosophy of vendor neutrality to ensure that community needs are prioritized;
• Creating an enhanced pipeline of young environmental leaders connected to local communities and organizations to meet their needs and translate our research findings and technological developments into practical impacts.

Primary Responsibilities

• Plans, designs, develops, modifies, debugs, deploys and evaluates data science/computational science research software and technologies.
• Analyzes existing software, scientific codes, data science/analytics codes/algorithms related hardware or works to formulate logic for new systems and devises algorithms.
• Works closely with Program Manager, Senior Research Software Engineers and the program team to develop data-enabled software solutions to a given environmental challenge.
• Understands and applies open research and development practices, community standards and department policies and procedures relating to work assignments.
• Works both independently and in collaboration with the program team and stakeholders to design and implement technical solutions to environmental challenges.
• Documents usage modes, capabilities, characteristics and performance of research codes/software.
• Publishes and presents, based on research and development work, results about data science techniques and tools, performance and algorithm enhancement in research venues to attract usage from domain science communities, or to promote latest technologies within the community.

Qualifications

• Intermediate knowledge of data science/research software development.
• Advanced skills, and demonstrated experience associated with deployment of data science applications and tools.
• Demonstrated ability to regularly interface with management.
• Demonstrated ability to contribute research and technical content to program outputs.
• Demonstrated effective communication and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate technical information to technical and non-technical personnel at various levels in the organization and to external research and education audiences.
• Proven skills and experience in independently resolving broad computing/data problems using introductory and/or intermediate principles.
• Self-motivated and works independently and as part of a team.
• Able to learn effectively and meet deadlines.
• Proven ability to successfully work on multiple concurrent projects.
• Proven ability to understand research computing/data needs, mapping use cases to requirements and how systems/software/infrastructure can support those needs and meet the requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and implement such solutions.
• Demonstrated experience and ability to collaborate effectively with all levels of staff; technical, students, faculty and administrators
• Bachelor's degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/training.

Education

Bachelor's degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training

Location

Ability to work at the DSE collaborative space on UC Berkeley campus, with flexibility in terms of timing, preferred, though fully remote candidates will also be considered.

Contact

For any questions, please reach out to dse@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail).

Applications

To apply to this position, please visit the UC Berkeley Jobs site and follow the instructions for Data Scientist / Research Software Engineer (6104U) - #46408(link is external).