Temporary Computational Data Specialist

As a Computational Science Specialist, you will collaborate with a dedicated research team to advance innovative agricultural research through high-performance computing, agricultural data processing, cloud technologies, and machine learning. The Computational Scientist is required and expected to develop domain-specific skills related to their job. In this specific case we will expect a candidate to show proficiency and interest in agronomic areas such as plant phenology (common disease / growth stages / cropping system practices). In this position we are expecting this person develop their own understanding of the application(s) and make recommendations, and then implement those recommendations

This role offers a unique opportunity to bridge technology and agricultural science by enabling complex, nationwide research projects across diverse cropping systems while supporting team members in computational analysis.

From agricultural data processing and spatial visualization to bioinformatics to high-performance computing and cloud-based research environments, you will develop strategies to help the team solve complex agronomic challenges and contribute to a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.

The Computational Science Specialist will play a critical role in advancing cutting-edge research across NC State working with our agricultural research team helping to deploy, optimize, and scale computational workloads on NC State's high-performance computing ( HPC) resources, national supercomputing centers ( USDA SciNet), and commercial cloud platforms ( AWS / Azure).

The successful candidate will provide computing expertise to the research team, supporting and guiding the development and optimization of data pipelines, software installation and management, database and website development, and scientific data analysis and visualization. Research projects involve a broad range of agronomic data types across diverse cropping systems, including geospatial/remote sensing data, weather and climate datasets, sensor telemetry, and field phenotypic data.

This role will maintain and support scientific software, workflows, and containerized applications using technologies such as Python, Docker, Postgres, Globus, SLURM, and MongoDB.

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What we offer:

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