BECAT is hiring a talented and enthusiastic graduate or undergraduate student for developing
software to run on its high-performance computer cluster.
The student will lead the operational implementation of the Damage Prediction Model (DPM),
an industry-academic collaboration to accurately predict weather events.
The position involves:
- Developing Python scripts to automate large dataset collection, processing and web
publishing.
- Maintaining existing system and web server. (in Ruby and Ruby on Rails)
- Monitoring the routine processes of the system
- Weekly meetings with department faculty and staff to document technical requirements and
report on progress.
- Assisting end-users through documentation, email and in-person.
- Learning, implementing and testing new technology.
The required skills are:
- Strong scripting/programming skills of some form (bash/perl/python/ruby).
- Experience with the website development and MySQL database.
- Fluent with git version control.
- Familiarity with Linux terminal use (SSH, cron jobs et cetera).
Desirable skills are:
- Experience with Ruby on Rails.
- Rudimentary understanding of R code.
- Rudimentary understanding of IDL code (Fortran-like language).
- Customer service experience, especially of supporting software users (mailing lists, IRC, issue
trackers).
- Some knowledge of Parallel and High Performance Computing.
The time commitment will be year-round, 20 hours a week, part-time for 1 year, with the
possibility of continuing on to a second year.