Chief Software Engineer

ASRC Federal is a leading government contractor furthering missions in space, public health and defense. As an Alaska Native owned corporation, our work helps secure an enduring future for our shareholders. Join our team and discover why we are a top veteran employer and Certified Great Place to Work™


ASRC Federal is a leading government contractor furthering missions in space, public health and defense. As an Alaska Native owned corporation, our work helps secure an enduring future for our shareholders. Join our team and discover why we are a top veteran employer and Certified Great Place to Work™
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC) is a community-based collaboration model for the Weather Enterprise (i.e., government, industry, and academia) designed to accelerate innovation that improves weather forecasting systems, such as the Unified Forecast System (UFS). The result is mitigating the devastating impacts of hazardous weather and other environmental events on life, property, and the nation’s economy.
The EPIC contract customer is NOAA’s Weather Program Office (WPO) within NOAA's Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) line office.
The EPIC Performance Work Statement (PWS) describes EPIC’s requirements as “advancing weather modeling skill, reclaiming and maintaining international leadership in the area of numerical weather prediction, and improving the transition of research into operations. The general objective and scope of this PWS is to obtain state-of-the-art software architecture, software engineering and scientific and technical support services to maintain and continuously expand the community modeling infrastructure that facilitates robust user support and easy access for advanced Earth system models, applications and components in the framework of the Unified Forecast System (UFS), a community-based, coupled, comprehensive Earth modeling system spanning spatial scales from local to global, and temporal scales from hourly to seasonal forecast scales.”
The NOAA EPIC scope of work includes:
• Project management
• Infrastructure
• Code Management
• Systems integration
• Data management
• Tracking computational performance and model skill improvement
• Advanced user support
• Community Engagement
• Continuous Stakeholder Engagement
• Machine Learning (ML) for Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
Primary Responsibilities:
• Participates in software engineering efforts that will lead to UFS code improvement services in collaboration within an integrated cross-disciplinary environment to ensure that the UFS code is easily maintainable, extensible and performance optimized
• Ensures comprehensive code and science-based documentation
• Provides services and support for the development and integration of scientific software components, development and use of tools for user support requests
• Develops and maintains user facing documentation such as user’s guides, release notes, known issues, tutorials and developer’s guides
• Delivers scientific software and HPC oriented training and tutorials both online and in person
• Designs, provides and supports scientific code hackathons, sprints and workshops, and develops and maintains infrastructure to help enable culture change toward community development, R2O/O2R and other approaches such as web presence, innovation hubs and other social media
• Employs modularity, the design principle known as separation of concerns (SoC)
• Develops and executes clear project deliverables and success metrics
• Develops continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines for EPIC software development
• Leads and coordinate software engineering efforts that will lead to UFS code improvement services in collaboration within an integrated cross-disciplinary environment to ensure that the UFS code is easily maintainable, extensible and performance optimized
• Working with the PM, Chief Scientist, and Chief System Architect, identify and collaborates with key stakeholders in the NWP and the ESM communities to identify future strategic directions to advance NWP in an ESM framework
• With the product manager, ensures that capabilities developed by the contract are advancing the highest priority science-based outcomes of stakeholders
Requirements:
Required Qualifications:
• 12 years of relevant experience software development / software engineering
• Excellent written and communication skills
*Preferred Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline (e.g., IT, technology, engineering)
• Experience with Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Deployment (CD) software development pipelines or similar DevSecOps toolchains, incl. some aspect in the cloud
• Experience with cloud