The University of California, Santa Barbara is searching for an Informatics Software Engineer. The post states, “This motivated, knowledgeable, and skilled software developer will work at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS; http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/ecoinformatics/) at UC Santa Barbara to help create a national software infrastructure for management and analysis of ecological and environmental data. Projects focus on new mechanisms to share data and scientific products to enable reproducible science and facilitate synthetic research. Principal duties include: systems analysis, design, and development for server, web-based, and desktop scientific data management and analysis applications; web-design and development for ecological informatics web sites; creation of end-user documentation and training materials; community outreach and training.”

Qualifications for the position include: “Requires enthusiasm and interest in application development supporting the earth and environmental sciences, and a desire to impact the conduct of science through open data and open source approaches. Requires expertise in software design and development using modern programming languages (e.g., Java, C) for desktop and web application design and development (e.g., HTML, JSON, XML, CSS, XSLT), including scripting languages (e.g., Python, Javascript), and understanding of web application technologies (e.g., AJAX, jQuery, Django). Experience with software application development for science, including familiarity with statistical, modeling, and geospatial data programming tools and techniques is desirable. In addition, understanding of and experience with technologies for the semantic web (e.g., RDF, OWL) and Linked Open Data web are desirable.”

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