Australian Bureau of Meteorology Hiring for Software Engineer Job at Melbourne, Australia Full Time

• Executive Level 1, Ongoing
• $98,209 – $110,623 + 15.4% super
• Melbourne

The Bureau is modernising and expanding its capability to verify the quality of its forecasts (e.g., forecasts of temperature, rain, wind, wave heights, thunderstorms) by comparing them to weather observations. This requires improvements to relevant observational data, software tools and the underpinning science for doing the forecast verification. Better understanding of forecast quality allows systematic improvements to the service which we provide to the Australian community.

As a software engineer, you will join a team of meteorologists, data scientists and programmers and will employ best practices in software development and continuous delivery, such as version control, automated testing, code reviews and configuration management. Working closely with other programmers, scientists and end users, you will provide technical leadership for the design, development and maintenance of the Bureau’s Jive verification system in consultation with software architects from the Data and Digital Group and the science leadership of the Verification and Decision Support team. Your tasks include taking the lead in expanding the Jive verification capability to encompass new datasets, new techniques, new forecast parameters and new verification metrics, with a particular focus on the Jive transition into production within the Bureau’s operations. You will be processing large gridded datasets (netCDF, hdf5, grib2) using python software and you will also be making significant use of PostgreSQL and Jupyter Notebooks.

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