RESEARCH SCIENTIST/ENGINEER 4 (TECHNICAL APPLICATIONS LEAD)

Company: University of Washington
Location: Washington
Posted on: November 6, 2024

Job Description:

If you are using a screen reader and experience any difficulty accessing our web pages, please call 206-543-2544 or email UWHires and we will be happy to assist you. RESEARCH SCIENTIST/ENGINEER 4 (TECHNICAL APPLICATIONS LEAD) Req #: 220788 Department: COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Job Location: Seattle Campus Posting Date: 01/25/2024 Closing Info: Open Until Filled Union Position: Yes Shift: First Shift Benefits: As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website. The Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington educates tomorrow's innovators, conducts cutting-edge research in the core and emerging areas of the field, and leads a broad range of multi-disciplinary initiatives that demonstrate the transformative power of computing. Consistently ranked among the top computer science programs in the nation, the Allen School is widely recognized for the excellence and impact of our research and teaching across the region and around the globe. As a leader in efforts to broaden participation in computing, we are committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in our program and in our field. Members of the Allen School actively work to cultivate a welcoming community in which students, faculty, and staff with diverse backgrounds, identities, and experiences can thrive. The Allen School is seeking outstanding candidates for the position of Technical Applications Lead. The Technical Applications Lead (payroll title: Research Scientist/Engineer 4) supports research being conducted by faculty and graduate students in the Taskar Center for Accessible Technology. This position will support the Transportation Data Equity Initiative project sponsored by the USDOT ITS4US program. This innovative data infrastructure project seeks to enable mobility equity by creating an interoperable, shared data infrastructure to fill in gaps in current transportation data and ultimately, provide travelers needed information they can trust. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIESWorking independently with occasional oversight, duties will include the following:

• Provide scientific and project leadership in the role of Technical Applications Lead.
• Complete and manage ongoing University required elements of the Transportation Data Equity Initiative (TDEI) grant.
• Responsible for the technical applications internal to the interoperable data infrastructure, including data extraction, transformations, integrations, and research work in graph and network homology.
• Research best practices and develop underlying application data tools that interface with data consumers and producers.
• Serve as primary liaison with partners both virtually and in person.
• Travel to partner communities and workshops; assist in the operation of community engagement workshops.
• Provide ongoing automation for quality control, vetting, security, and privacy for data collection and collation.
• Resolve deployment and evaluation issues as discovered.
• Use advanced project planning techniques to manage project status and interface with customer/grant sponsor.
• Analyze and compile results for academic publication and dissemination to partner organizations.
• Assist in the development of future grant proposals.MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
• PhD in Computer Science or a related field, and at least 2 years of related research experience.
• Proficiency in at least 3 of the listed proficiencies in each of the following categories:

• Extensive experience with data exploration exemplified by use of the following: pandas, R, SQL.
• Extensive experience with full-stack web development, VCS including Git, Docker and Cloud Native deployment.
• Extensive experience using the following programming languages: Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Kotlin, Rust, R, SQL, Shell.
• Demonstrated prior work experience and proficiency with unstructured data.
• Demonstrated knowledge, skills and abilities with basic data visualization.
• Demonstrated knowledge, skills and abilities with machine learning.
• Experience writing papers for publication in top-tier conferences.
• Excellent technical writing, communication, and time management skills.
• Demonstrated experience communicating results through writing and presentations.
• Demonstrated experience supervising and co-leading research efforts.DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Familiarity with C, MATLAB/Octave, and Ruby.
• Experience with algorithms, data structures, system design.
• Familiarity with computational geometry.Application Process:The application process may include completion of a variety of online assessments. Please note that your application will not be reviewed until all required
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