Aeris is hiring tenacious, creative, and technically minded individuals with a passion and skill for interpreting and distilling large datasets into actionable intelligence and communicating those results to stakeholders. Aeris is an energetic, fast-paced software engineering and scientific technical services company that supports the U.S. Government. Aeris aspires to be an integral partner to our clients, enabling them to make a difference by making the world safer and more secure.

Our ideal candidate is a Data Scientist with a love for creative analytics, algorithm development and a diversified work portfolio. At Aeris, we believe in a culture of innovation, fun, and empowerment, within an environment that allows our team members to maintain a healthy work-life balance. We offer cutting edge technical services centered around high-resolution modeling of microscale atmospheric dynamics and are proud to contribute to the national security sector by providing world class analytics and software tools that address a wide array of missions.

As a Data Scientist at Aeris, your responsibilities may include:

• Developing data reduction pipelines to process large atmospheric data sets (>1TB)
• Designing data preprocessing routines to retrieve input datasets from public APIs, extract necessary information and write out to proprietary formats
• Interfacing with DoD High Performance Computing (HPC) resources to design and submit distributed computations
• Working with geospatial datasets to project across coordinate systems, interpolate, down-sample and perform geostatistical analysis
• Working closely with software engineers to integrate your code into our enterprise software products
• Developing professional graphical output to preset your analysis and share with clients
• Developing or supporting AI/ML data reduction pipelines for atmospheric data (SOMs, auto encoders or physics-based ML)

We understand that candidates may not be able to check the boxes for all desired qualifications. What is most important is that candidates have exceptional problem-solving skills, creative out-of-the-box thinking, and are comfortable in an environment where you will be quickly learning, evaluating, and deploying new technologies.

Required Skills & Experience:

• BS in Data Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, or comparable field.
• Advanced proficiency in a “scientific” programming language such as Python or R
• Familiarity with large dataset subsetting and manipulation
• Experience producing high quality graphics and presenting to stakeholders
• Experience working on a LINUX system and a robust comfort level with a command line interface
• Eligibility (U.S. Citizenship) and willingness to undergo a background investigation to obtain a United States Department of Defense Security Clearance.
• Willingness to relocate to the greater Boulder, CO area

Desired Skills & Experience:

• M.S. in Data Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, or comparable field
• Experience with geospatial dataset manipulation
• Experience working with NetCDF and the NCEP GRIB2 formats
• Experiencing working with and/or developing numerical models
• A cursory understanding of atmospheric science or fluid dynamics
• Experience working with API interfaces
• A basic understanding of C++
• Experience with Agile development
• Experience working with the Atlassian suite of tools (Bitbucket, Jira & Bamboo)

Highlighted Benefits:

• Health and dental medical insurance coverage for employee, spouse and dependents (Premiums 100% covered by Aeris).
• Simple IRA company match
• Personal Time Off and U.S. Holidays
• Annual performance bonuses
• Health and wellness program
• Continuing education benefits
• Phantom equity eligibility

Application Guidelines

Qualified applicants are asked to apply via Indeed