From: johng@oce.orst.edu (John A. Gregor)
Subject: Information Systems Developer, Corvallis Oregon
Followup-To: sender
Organization: Oregon State University, College of Oceanography
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 21:04:09 GMT



                       POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT


Title: Research Assistant, Information Systems Developer
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Responsibilities:
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    - Explore and prototype new methods of information and knowledge
      management in anticipation of petabyte sized Earth science data
      sets, advanced computer architectures, and distributed
      computation over high-speed networks.

    - Assist in developing consistent interface and processing
      strategy for Earth science data (including satellite data,
      in-situ data, derived and computer modelled data in a variety of
      formats, map projections, and with a wide variety of spatial and
      temporal properties).

    - Evaluate existing information management packages and toolkits
      (such as object oriented databases).

    - Manage and enhance existing relational database of satellite
      imagery.

    - Integrate satellite image database and relational database of
      in-situ ocean data.

    - Assist in developing links between visualization and analysis
      tools and database system.

    - Develop/enhance GUI front end for ocean database.

    - Assist with computer system administration and maintenance.

Required Qualifications:
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    - BS or other degree in CS, Math, Physics, Engineering, or other
      'hard' science.

    - Excellent communication and presentation skills.

    - Strong experience in a networked, heterogeneous UNIX environment.

    - The ability to work in the U.S. (citizen or permanent resident).

    - At least 3 items from the ``Desired'' list below.

Desired:
    - Master's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

    - Strong understanding of and experience in advanced database
      theory and design; especially object oriented, relational,
      scientific, distributed, multimedia, and/or hypertext databases.

    - Excellent programming skills and experience developing large,
      production quality applications in C, C++, Objective C, LISP,
      Smalltalk, Scheme, or other high-level structured language.

    - Experience programming distributed, parallel applications using
      TCP/IP, UDP, RPC, Parasoft Express, Linda and/or ISIS.

    - Experience developing applications under X/Motif, NeXT Step,
      Macintosh, or other GUI.

    - Experience programming massively parallel or vector supercomputers.

Useful:
    - Familiarity with advanced CS concepts such as distributed
      computing, process migration, language design, typed functional
      languages, genetic algorithms, cellular automata, computational
      geometry, protocol design and verification, and high-performance
      network, memory, i/o and computer architectures.

    - Good knowledge of math including trig, calculus, differential
      equations, linear algebra, sampling theory, statistics, and
      numerical analysis.

    - Experience in remote sensing, Earth or planetary science.

    - Experience in high speed telecommunications (>= DS-3), video
      teleconferencing, ATM, and/or gigabit networks.

    - Experience using and/or programming any of the following packages:
	PV-Wave, IDL, Ingres, Hypercard, AVS, Khoros, SGI Explorer, IBM
	Data Explorer, apE, Wavefront Data Visualizer, Mathmatica, Macsyma,
	Maple, Global Imaging GAE, Wavefront Advanced Visualizer, or
	Renderman.
    

Salary: $32,000 -- $38,000, depending on qualifications
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To Apply:
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    Send resume with names, addresses, and telephone numbers of three
    academic or employment references to:

    Dr. Mark R. Abbott
    College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences
    Oregon State University
    Oceanography Admin Bldg. 104
    Corvallis, OR 97331-5503

    E-mail: mark@oce.orst.edu
    Fax: +1 503 737-2064

Oregon State University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity
employer who complies with section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act,
and has a policy of being responsive to the needs of dual-career
couples.


About The College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences:
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    The College has over 90 full-time researchers involved in all
    aspects of oceanographic and atmospheric research.  There is a a
    network of over 95 UNIX workstations, supported by 2 Sun 690MP
    servers.  The College has an 8K CM-200 from Thinking Machines, with
    a CM-5 to be delivered next spring.  Advanced graphics and
    visualization equipment is also available.  The College has an
    active partnership with IBM, exploring the use of massively
    parallel architectures.  College researchers maintain close ties
    with many other hardware and software vendors.





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         John A. Gregor			USmail:	College of Oceanography
 E-mail: johng@oce.orst.edu			Oregon State University
Voice #: +1 503 737-3022			Oceanography Admin Bldg. #104
  Fax #: +1 503 737-2064			Corvallis, OR  97331-5503
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