Meteorological Data Engineer

Maxar is hiring a Meteorological Data Engineer to join our WeatherDesk team! In this role you will work alongside fellow WeatherDesk Data Engineers to build innovative data solutions for our clients, create/support Maxar WeatherDesk’s products and services, as well as handle complex data workflows. This environment will be fast paced as you will be supporting critical client decision making in a sprint environment. A strong candidate will exemplify passion, organization, and vision to take ownership of their technology stack, as well as collaborate with various teams to create cutting edge products and services. 

At Maxar, we have decades of experience understanding our customers’ needs and we understand the importance of providing critical and trusted information quickly. Maxar Intelligence is a provider of secure, precise, geospatial intelligence. We deliver disruptive value to government and commercial customers to help them monitor, understand, and navigate our changing planet. Our unique approach combines decades of deep mission understanding and a proven commercial and defense foundation to deploy solutions and deliver insights with unrivaled speed, scale, and cost effectiveness. 

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Extract and transform data using programming languages such as Python and associated open-source data analytic libraries
• Develop workflows to efficiently process meteorological data collected via data sources (ground stations, satellites, models) and applying algorithms to add value
• Demonstrate good judgement in applying data and meteorology methods and techniques
• Ascertaining unique ways to apply scientific ideas and algorithms to enhance product and data quality
• Monitor and troubleshoot time-sensitive cloud-based models and processes
• Work as part of an agile cross-disciplinary team to bring new products to market
• Support time-sensitive data deliveries to both our internal and external clients

Minimum Requirements:

• 3-5+ years of data and meteorological experience
• Degree in meteorology, atmospheric science, or related field. Degree may be substituted with 4+ years of relevant experience
• Experience working and developing in a Linux environment, including virtual machines and Dockerized containers
• Advanced knowledge of Python programming language using data science libraries such as numpy, scipy, xarray, pandas, matplotlib, rasterio, and/or zarr
• Strong understanding of atmospheric model data formats such as GRIB, NetCDF, and/or GeoTIFF. Including how to manipulate them using packages such as ecCodes
• Working knowledge of writing and deploying software solutions within AWS using a multitude of services
• Experience with version control software (such as Git) and CI/CD tools (such as CodeBuild/CodePipeline)
• Working knowledge writing SQL queries against relational databases such as MySQL and/or PostgreSQL

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in physical science (preferably meteorology), computer science, or related field
• Comfort working within an Agile Scrum-team environment
• Experience processing data in varied environments including serverless, containers, VMs, and/or EC2 instances
• Proficiency writing solutions within AWS using services such as ECS, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, Step Functions, CloudWatch and CloudFormation
• Experience managing data streams with LDM
• Familiarity with API development in Python with Flask and Tornado web servers
• Experience creating graphics with GrADS and various Python data science libraries
• Experience with commercial and open-source GIS software/libraries including ESRI ArcGIS, QGIS, GeoServer, Rio Tiler, and GDAL
• Functional knowledge of additional languages such as NodeJS, Javascript, R, and Bash scripting

What’s In It For You:

There is a reason we boast awards like Best Employer, Best Place to work, Top employer, candidate experience winner. Our strength is in our people. Each team member makes a unique contribution to our collective mission.

• Health, Vision, Dental Insurance, and Employee Assistance Program
• 401K, with matching and immediate vesting
• Health Savings Account (HSA)/Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) Options
• Flexible FTO, 10 Holidays, and Sick Time
• Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Adoption Reimbursement
• Flexible Hours, Hybrid work options
• Tuition Reimbursement and Student Loan Repayment
• Pet Insurance
• And More!

Why Maxar?  

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