Computer Scientist

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration • Boulder, CO

11d • Onsite

About The Position

This position is located in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), with one vacancy in Plainsboro, NJ; Silver Spring, MD; Boulder, CO; Seattle, WA; Miami FL; Ann Arbor, MI; or Norman OK. This position is also announced under vacancy number OAR GFDL-27-13082377-ST, which is open to Status Candidates. You must apply to both announcements if you want to be considered for both.

Requirements

• Applicants must be U.S. Citizens.
• Suitable for Federal employment, as determined by background investigation.
• Must be registered for Selective Service, if applicable (www.sss.gov)
• Qualification requirements must be met by closing date of the announcement.
• Degree: A bachelor's degree in computer science or bachelor's degree with 30 semester hours in a combination of mathematics, statistics, and computer science. At least 15 of the 30 semester hours must have included any combination of statistics and mathematics that included differential and integral calculus.
• All academic degrees and course work must be from accredited or pre-accredited institutions.
• SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the ZP-3 or GS-12 level in the Federal service.
• Specialized experience MUST include all of the following: Coordinating climate research by collaborating with working groups and committees on technology development; and Making recommendations on High-Performance Computing systems and general Information Technology issues and policies.
• Transcripts must be submitted with your application package.
• College Transcript: If you are qualifying based on education, submit a copy of your college transcript that lists college courses detailing each course by the number and department (i.e., Bio 101, Math 210, etc.), name of accredited institution, course title, number of credit hours and grade earned.
• You must submit evidence that any education completed in a foreign institution is equivalent to U.S. education standards with your resume.
• You may submit an unofficial copy of the transcript at the initial phase of the application process.
• If course content cannot be easily identified from the title of the course as listed on your transcript, you must submit an official course description from the college/university that reflects the content at the time the course was taken.
• An official college transcript will be required before you can report to duty.

Nice To Haves

• ICTAP and CTAP Candidates: Eligible for selection priority if it is determined that they have exceeded the minimum qualifications by attaining at least a rating of 85 out of 100.

Responsibilities

• Perform basic or applied research to enhance the computing environment for applied mathematicians, physical scientists, and engineers through development in such areas as computer architecture, including vector and parallel machines, systems software and control languages.
• Review strategic and operational requirements for information systems.
• Develop data models and logical database designs and populate data dictionaries.
• Develop and enforce naming conventions for data entities and relationships.
• Use automated tools, particularly Information Resource Dictionary Systems, for storage and analysis of metadata.
• Develop functional requirements for other automated tools, develop standards and guidelines.
• Develop methodologies and techniques for designing very large-scale distributed information systems serving many users and applications.
• Develop methods for coordinating widely distributed resources for information retrieval, transaction processing, computation, and graphic display.
• Develop reference models for distribution system architectures.
• Determine architectures for new applications with data, audio, and video components.

Benefits

• A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package.
• As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding.
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What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level