The Eric & Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment at Berkeley (DSE) is in search of 2 Senior Data Scientist / Research Software Engineers who are excited to lead the technical development of the new center. Schmidt DSE Senior Engineers will play a critical role in developing and delivering on all technical aspects of our given project efforts. As an experienced data scientist / research software engineer, you are excited to work with interdisciplinary teams and to help grow our program from the ground floor. You have a passion for designing and implementing technical 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 Senior Data Scientist / Research Software Engineer (6028U) - #46361(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

• Applies advanced research and development expertise to plan, design, develop, modify, debug, deploy and evaluate data enabled computational tools that address environmental challenges.
• Leverages existing open source applications where applicable and develops and contributes new code and features when current applications are insufficient.
• Understands how to evaluate all technical options, decide the best path forward, and develop upon the chosen path both as a contributor and as a technical leader guiding additional research engineers.
• Works with research communities and users to develop, implement, and optimize computational and data analysis/analytics software/tools/algorithms/research codes with broad applicability.
• Iteratively designs new code and functionality while concurrently testing with a variety of potential users to understand use cases and improve the applications.
• Works with environmental domain experts to ensure that the applications being developed accurately represent the science behind them.
• Understands and applies advanced research and development practices, open source programming principles, community standards and department policies and procedures.
• Serves as technical lead for research and development projects of moderate to broad Scope.
• May represent the organization as part of a team at national and international meetings, conferences and committees.

Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of data science/research software development.
• In depth skills and experience in independently and collaboratively resolving complex computing/data problems.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate technical information to people with various backgrounds both technical and non-technical and to external audiences.
• In depth experience assessing a broad spectrum of technical and research needs to establish priorities, delegate and/or lead development of solutions.
• Demonstrated research and technology project leadership and management skills.
• Experience or interest in developing applications with environmental impact.

Education

Bachelor's degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training required. Master's or PhD degree in Computer / Computational / Data Science, or Domain Sciences with computer / computational / data specialization preferred.

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 Senior Data Scientist / Research Software Engineer (6028U) - #46361(link is external)