IMaRS Programmer  

Department:  College of Marine Science

Location: St. Petersburg

Date Posted: 05/06/2008

Weekly Hours:  40 hours

Pay Rate: Commensurate with skills and experience

Length of employment: Initial appointment based on periodic performance reviews is one year, with possibility of extensions depending on performance and funding.

Duties: The Institute for Marine Remote Sensing (IMaRS) seeks a computer system administrator/programmer to establish and maintain a computer system environment to support research in remote sensing and other ocean disciplines. Primary duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, computer system administration in a scientific environment; programming new online tools for serving the satellite data products; performing maintenance and set up of satellite data processing computer clusters and data servers, and planning for future growth of IMaRS remote sensing program.   

Qualifications: The position requires extensive use of PERL (Practical Extraction and Reporting Language). Working knowledge of Object Oriented PERL programming, HTML, XHTML, CCS, and JavaScript is required. Hand coded examples of work will be required. The position requires travel to professional meetings.  Applicants must possess proof of legal authority to work in the United States.  Experience in working with remote sensing researchers, working with large data volume, and working in a scientific environment is preferred.  Experience with IDL and PDL ("Perl Data Language") is preferred.  Applicants with prior experience in implementing coastal ocean observing systems (COOS) are particularly welcome.

Letter of application, resume, and contact information for three references should be sent to:

Ms. Desiree Woroner - dworoner@admin.usf.edu - (727) 553-1632
or
College of Marine Science, USF
140 Seventh Ave. So., MSL 119
St. Petersburg, FL 33701

The position remains open until filled.