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The EPA National Student Services Contract has an immediate opening for a full-time contractor position; Scientific Programmer with the Office of Research and Development at the EPA facility in Research Triangle Park, NC.

This is an excellent opportunity for a recent Master’s grad to collaborate with EPA’s research team. Research experience includes:

  • Testing and improving the input/output (IO) file structure in CMAQ. Written in FORTRAN, CMAQ IO is currently being revamped, and extensive testing needs to be conducted to ensure the model’s robustness as well as compatibility with other tools and model system components;
  • Updating the Java-based Visual Environment for Rich Data Interpretation (VERDI) software to support additional features/functions; and
  • Exploring artificial intelligence (AI) approaches to improve air quality simulations; and
  • Networking and exploring many career paths at EPA.

Location: This job will be located at EPA’s facility in Research Triangle Park, NC.

Salary: $30.76 per hour.

Travel: Occasional overnight travel may be required.

Required Skills:
  • Experience in coding scientific software and/or computational methods;
  • Experience with programming in at least two of the following and proficiency in at least one of the following: FORTRAN, Python, and R;
  • Experience working with output data sets from atmospheric or environmental models and/or geospatial data, including specific knowledge of netCDF;
  • Experience with Linux;
  • Experience with Git and GitHub;
  • Demonstrated ability to work independently, proactively, and remotely with minimal supervision; and
  • Strong written, oral, and electronic communication skills.

Desired Skills:
  • Experience with regional or global atmospheric models (such as CMAQ, WRF, or MPAS).
  • Experience with and knowledge of atmospheric radiative transfer models (such as RRTMG)
  • Experience with programming AI techniques; and
  • Experience with parallel programming.


What the EPA project is about

The Center for Environmental Measurement & Modeling (CEMM) conducts research to advance EPA’s ability to measure and model contaminants in the environment, including research to provide fundamental methods and models needed to implement environmental statutes. Within CEMM, the Atmospheric & Environmental Systems Modeling Division (AESMD) conducts research to advance EPA’s ability to characterize atmospheric and environmental processes that impact the transport, transformation, and fate of environmental contaminants in the air and the multimedia linkages of air pollutant emissions in support of the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act.

As part of their mission, AESMD supports EPA’s mission to protect human health and the environment by developing, evaluating, and applying state-of-the-science modeling tools that are used to manage air quality at local, state, regional, and global scales. Models developed by AESMD estimate the contributions of various air emission sources to ambient air pollution and inform human/ecological exposure and effects assessment. The AESMD staff consists of atmospheric scientists, meteorologists, hydrologists, physical scientists, computational chemists, chemical engineers, computer scientists, and statisticians.

Qualifications

  • Be at least 18 years of age and
  • Have earned at least a Master’s degree in computer science, atmospheric science, physical science, engineering, statistics, mathematics, or a related scientific or technological field of study from an accredited university or college within the last 24 months and
  • Be a citizen of the United States of America or a Legal Permanent Resident.

EPA ORD employees, their spouses, and children are not eligible to participate in this program.

Interested in this research opportunity? If so, follow the link to apply.
Questions? EPANSSC@orau.org