Senior Open Science & AI Platform Engineer

University of Alabama in Huntsville; Huntsville (AL); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Alabama in Huntsville is seeking a Computer Scientist III, Step 4, to provide geospatial and information technology support to the Office of Data Science and Informatics (ODSI) Project Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) within the Lab for Applied Science (LAS) under the Earth System Science Center (ESSC) at UAH.

This role advances open science and data management across Earth science workflows.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field; substitution allowed with a Bachelor's degree plus experience.
• Minimum of 3.5 years of full-time, verifiable work experience.
• Experience in scalable distributed systems.
• Knowledge and skills in programming and databases.
• Working knowledge of cloud-based applications.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement capabilities to enable open science.
• Develop governance frameworks, best practices, guidelines, and requirements for SMD data, information, and software.
• Develop AI for Science capabilities to streamline the scientific process and to develop data-driven AI models to enhance predictive modeling and simulation.
• Develop and maintain an open science platform to enable scientific data analytics workflows.

Skills

Programming

Databases

Distributed systems

Cloud-based applications

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Bachelor's degree with substitution option

Job description

The University of Alabama in Huntsville is seeking a Computer Scientist III, Step 4, to provide geospatial and information technology support to the Office of Data Science and Informatics (ODSI) Project Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) within the Lab for Applied Science (LAS) under the Earth System Science Center (ESSC) at UAH.

This role advances open science and data management across Earth science workflows.