The Leidos Health and Civil Sector is seeking a Climate Data Scientist. This is a growing team with demonstrated funding success and the resources of a Fortune and S&P 500 company with over 47,000 employees. 

The work involves building applied scientific tools for a number of federal agencies, covering the full project lifecycle from: proposal, prototyping, customer feedback, revision, and delivery of quality-controlled finished software. The incumbent will work on multiple projects across federal contracts with agencies including: NASA, NOAA, USGS, and the USACE.

 This is a full-time role with a remote work location of the incumbent's choice anywhere in the US.  

Basic Qualifications: 

• Ph.D. in a technical field involving Earth observation or an MSc. with 4 years of relevant experience. 

Proficiency with: 

• Python 

• Remotely sensed geospatial data (satellite, airborne) 

• Geospatial tools: GDAL, geopandas, rasterio, xarray 

• Spatial data: projections, interpolation 

• GIS: ArcGIS Pro or similar 

• Databases: SQL 

• Version control - Git 

• Numerical optimization: solving linear systems 

• Machine learning: neural networks, random forests 

• Using cloud resources, such as AWS, for parallel and high-performance computing 

• Established record of technical writing of proposals, reports, and user manuals 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Deep experience instead of proficiency in any or all of the above tools 

• Industry & academic experience 

• Publications in high-impact journals 

• Cryospheric science and field work experience; remote sensing validation using in situ measurements 

Experience with: 

• MATLAB and other high-level languages 

• Efficient spatial storage - HDF5 and NetCDF 

• Multi-sensor fusion 

• Energy-balance modeling 

• A variety of sensors - hyperspectral, multispectral, microwave, & thermal 

• Mobility applications - optimal route-finding strategies 

• DevOps 

Original Posting Date:

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.