Research Software Developer - Climate Team

Rhodium Group is hiring a Research Software Developer for its Climate Team in Seattle, WA. The role focuses on developing and maintaining software libraries for climate science, particularly the FACTS framework. Candidates should possess a Master's degree, strong Python skills, and experience in software development. Responsibilities include collaborating with scientists, enhancing software capabilities, and conducting data analyses related to climate change impacts and risks.
Rhodium Group is seeking a Research Software Developer for its Climate Team in Seattle, WA. The role involves developing and maintaining software libraries for climate science, particularly the FACTS framework, and engaging with users. Candidates should have a Master's degree, strong Python skills, and experience in software development. The position supports research on climate change impacts, risks, and costs, requiring collaboration with scientists and data analysis.
About the Role:
We are looking for a talented Research Software Developer to join our world-class team at Rhodium Group. In this role, you will support the team's research on understanding the impacts, risks, and costs of climate change, primarily working on developing, maintaining, and engaging with users of key software libraries for climate science and impact assessment, as well as conducting data analyses for research projects.

Key Responsibilities:
• Work with science teams to be the primary developer of the Framework for Assessment of Changes To Sea-level (FACTS), an open-source sea-level projection framework that was used to support the development of projections for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Sixth Assessment Report and the US Interagency Sea Level Rise Scenarios Task Force.
• Work with science teams and users to develop new modules and capabilities for FACTS, modernize the framework and its functionality, expand its user base, and prepare for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Seventh Assessment Report.
• Engage with the scientists and practitioners using FACTS, including those within the NASA Sea Level Change Team, as well as the growing set of scientist-developer contributors to the code base, to ensure their needs are met.
• Learn, use, and extend Rhodium's Climate Impacts Projects team tools for climate data processing and impacts research.
• Support researchers using our tools, develop new features, and improve usability.
• Work with research and communications teams to conduct statistical analyses, analyze data, and make visualizations for internal, Climate Impact Lab, and/or client projects.

Qualifications:
• A Master's degree with 1-2 years research-oriented work in climate science, data or computational science, or a related quantitative field
• Strong Python background, data science tools (pandas, xarray), version control (Git), Linux command line experience required; experience with shell/bash scripting, climate data storage formats (e.g. netCDF, Zarr), distributed computing tools (dask) a plus
• Experience with software development required; open-source contributions, maintenance, packaging, documentation, testing, and community engagement a plus
• Familiarity with high-performance computing (HPC), HPC job management systems (e.g. slurm, PBS), and distributed cloud computing a plus
• Strong communication and multi-disciplinary collaboration skills required; experience with cross academic-private sector collaboration a plus
• Interest in climate and sea level change is essential, though experience in these areas not required

About Rhodium Group:
Rhodium Group is an independent research provider with deep expertise in policy and economic analysis. We help decision-makers in both the public and private sectors navigate global challenges through objective, original, and data-driven research and insights.