Temporary Staff Specialist- Pujiantari

UT Southwestern Medical Center • Dallas, TX

12h • Onsite

About The Position

Works under immediate supervision to provide clerical and/or typing support in performance of variety of office duties which may be simple to moderately complex in nature. This position involves leading fire type classification and burned area mapping across Texas using multi-temporal Landsat/Sentinel imagery, vegetation indices, and machine learning classifiers (random forest). Responsibilities include: processing large geospatial datasets with reproducible R/Python workflows; modeling climatic and anthropogenic drivers of fire severity, linking fire data to population/exposure health outcomes; and authoring manuscripts. Various administrative and clerical assignments filled on an as needed basis. This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code 51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information.

Requirements

• Ph.D. in environmental science/geography/ecology
• Demonstrated expertise in fire remote sensing
• Demonstrated expertise in time series analysis
• Demonstrated expertise in spatial statistics
• Demonstrated expertise in cloud based platforms (GEE, ArcGIS Pro)

Responsibilities

• Leading fire type classification and burned area mapping across Texas using multi-temporal Landsat/Sentinel imagery, vegetation indices, and machine learning classifiers (random forest)
• Processing large geospatial datasets with reproducible R/Python workflows
• Modeling climatic and anthropogenic drivers of fire severity
• Linking fire data to population/exposure health outcomes
• Authoring manuscripts
• Various administrative and clerical assignments filled on an as needed basis

Benefits

• PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage
• 100% coverage for preventive healthcare-no copay
• Paid Time Off, available day one
• Retirement Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
• Paid Parental Leave Benefit
• Wellness programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree