From: cahoon@mcnc.org (Mary Cahoon)
Subject: Open Positions
Organization: MCNC Center for Microelectronics, RTP, NC
Distribution: triangle
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 19:26:46 GMT

The attached listing is a position that has recently become available.  
Employment applications are available at the lobby reception desk.  To 
apply for this position, please deliver a resume and/or application to
Teresa Johnson in Human Resources. Please notify your manager before
submitting your interest to Human Resources.

MCNC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer M/F/H/V

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                NORTH CAROLINA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER


The North Carolina Supercomputing Center (NCSC) is a state-supported
Supercomputing Center and Research Institute located in the Research
Triangle Park, North Carolina.  The NCSC program is national and
international in scope as well as impact.  NCSC promotes educational and
research activities in high-performance computing and its applications in
science, engineering and other disciplines.  The Center works in close 
collaboration with universities and industry to engance the economic 
development of North Carolina and to support the national high-performance
computing initiative.

NCSC's computational environment includes a Cray Y-MP, running UNICOS,
which began operation September 1989.  The Center is accessible at high band
width (T1/T3) by means of North Carolina's existing data communications network
and is connected to the appropriate national networks.



            Systems Programmer/Analyst II  (#EPA014)

Description of Duties:  Work as a member of the Models-3 development team for
the development of the next generation environmental models.  Will involve
software development and rapid-prototyping of assigned modules within the
development effort.  Provide technical assistance for testing, documenting
and maintenance of environmental applications software.  Maintain an in-depth
understanding of the computing needs and capabilities of the environmental
(user) community.  Provide technical assistance and guidance to research teams.
Evaluate scientific computing software available in the public domain and 
commercially for applicability to the user community.  Help plan and coordinate
the upgrading of environmental models.  Conduct numerical, statistical and
sensitivity analyses for environmental models, advise the user community of the
most efficient coding techniques, software and algorithms.  Coordinate
assigned projects involving other staff.  Involved in the development and
implementation of better physics, numerical algorithms, documentation and
presentation and presentation of scientific papers and promotion of research
in the field of environmental science.  Evaluate scientific applications and
where appropriate, develop enhancements, and recommend methodologies to improve
techniques related to transport of pollutants.  Assist in scientific 
collaborations and projects with in-house, industrial and academic researchers.
Remain current in directions and trends of environmental modeling and 
disseminate this knowledge through publications, participation in conferences 
and/or opportunities through proposals.  Suggest research tasks.

Experience in rapid-prototyping or object-oriented programming is desired.
Position requires a Master's degree in Mathematical or Physical Sciences or in
Computer Science or equivalent experience, plus extensive scientific 
programming experience.



                     Technical Writer (#EPA015)

The incumbent will generate short and long range plans to meet the technical
publication needs of the Environmental Programs Group.  Develop all levels of
publications to clearly and correctly explain the scientific research conducted
by the group.  This research includes development and implementation of new
physics and algorithms for Regional and Urban Scale transport models.
Document new operating software systems, system utilities, libraries, and 
network access utilized by the models.  Produce general publications (user 
guides, publicity articles, brochures), newsletters and presentations.  
Provide assistance to internal staff and external researchers as required.  
Create and enforce publication standards for all publications.  Edit and 
proofread articles and publications for clarity and correctness.  Assist in 
generating multimedia presentations for presentation by other staff members.  
Organize writing and presentation training sessions for staff and external 
users.  Coordinate on publication contents, schedules and needs with Corporate 
Communications.  Serve as project leader for group-wide documentation projects.
Make presentations to management on project objectives and accomplishments.

Position requires a B.S. degree in technical writing, physical science or 
equivalent.  Four years experience writing and editing technical documents 
relating to environmental research in air quality modeling is highly desired.



                   Software Engineer II (#EPA016)

Duties are as follows:  Supervise the activities of the Models-3 development
team in support of research collaborations with industrial and academic
researchers.  Work with members of the team in the development of software
architecture, design, implementation, testing and evaluation of next
generation environmental models.  Advocate research collaboration between the 
Center and external institutions for environmental modeling/software
development issues.  Assist in promoting methods to transfer research results 
into operational software.  Participate in proposal generation activities 
undertaken by the environmental research group.  Makes periodic reports to 
management on the status of software development programs.

Preferred experience includes six years in software engineering. Experience
designing large-scale systems is highly desired.  Position requires a Master's
degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.



                   Software Engineer  (#EPA017)


Duties are as follows: Participate in research collaboration between the Center
and external institutions for environmental modeling/software development 
issues.  Support the activities of the Models-3 development team.  Work with 
members of the team in the development of software architecture, design, 
implementation, testing and evaluation of next generation environmental models.
Assist in promoting methods to transfer research results into operational 
software.  Participate in proposal generation activities undertaken by the
environmental research group.  Makes periodic reports to management on the 
status of software development programs.

Preferred experience includes four years in software engineering.  Experience
designing large-scale systems and object-oriented design is highly desired.  
Position requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent 
experience and excellent communication skills.



                Systems Programmer/Analyst  (#EPA018)

The incumbent will develop software, provide analysis of, and test Regional
and Urban Scale Atmospheric transport models.  Those models include, but are
not limited to the Regional Oxidant Model and Urban Airsheild Models.
Assist in the testing, documenting and maintenance of environmental 
applications software.  Develop an understanding of the computing needs and 
capabilities of the environmental (user) community.  Provide technical 
assistance and skills to research teams.  As directed evaluate scientific 
computing software available in the public domain and commercially for 
applicability to the user community.  Help plan and coordinate the upgrading 
of environmental models.  Involved in the implementation of better physics, 
numerical algorithms, documentation and presentation or scientific papers and 
promotion of research in the field or environmental science.  Aid in the 
evaluation of scientific applications related to transport of pollutants.  
Assist in scientific collaborations and projects with in-house, industrial and 
academic researchers.

Preferred experience includes two years working with testing and upgrading the
Urban Airshield Model is highly desired.  Knowledge or ROM/UAM interface is
also desired.  Position requires a bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Physical
Science, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.  Knowledge of UNIX and
C is also required.
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