Scientific Applications Programmer

Peraton is looking for a Scientific Applications Programmer at Stennis Space Station in MS for the USI program. The Unmanned Systems Interface (USI) is a software suite currently being developed and maintained by University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory (APL-UW) for the Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO).  The primary function if USI is to provide capabilities for the control and processing of data from unmanned oceanographic vehicles such as gliders and profiling floats.

Working in collaboration with APL-UW developers, NAVOCEANO personnel, and Peraton programmers, the successful candidate will be responsible for adding new features and capabilities to USI.  New features and capabilities include but are not limited to: 

• Support for new vehicle and sensor types including development of decoders and control functions, new data displays and plots, new vehicle control functionality, new GUI features, and developing new API functions to support features such as enhanced control and vehicle error handling.

• Development of new features and capabilities will require extensive coding in Java and Python to implement USI’s web-enabled components. Therefore, the successful candidate will have strong knowledge of and experience with application programming in Java and Python, strong knowledge of and experience with server-side programming in Java, and experience with client-side Web GUI design and implementation using HTML5 and JavaScript. USI interfaces with multiple SQL databases so experience with SQL databases will benefit the successful candidate. USI is an operational system and all further development is done in a continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) environment using tools such as Eclipse, GIT, Jira and Jenkins.

• Experience working in a CI/CD environment and using such tools will further benefit the successful candidate.

• USI is used to control unmanned underwater vehicles and process data collected by their onboard sensors. This work will require application of oceanographic knowledge to account for effects of the ocean environment upon the vehicles and sensors. As much of the data collected is fed into ocean models, application of oceanographic knowledge will be further useful.

• The candidate must be able to produce highly quality results while adhering to a specified timeline with minimal supervision and be able to communicate effectively with university staff and contractors, NAVOCEANO employees, and other Peraton programmers and software engineers.

• This work requires strong writing skills for building reports, creating presentations, and producing software documentation both in-line and in user manuals and other guides.

Required Qualifications:

• 9 years eperience with H.S; 7 years with AS/AA; 5 years with BS/BA; 3 years with MS/MA; 0 years with PhD
• Ability to obtain Secret clearance

Desired Qualifications:

• Java, Python and SQL 
• Unmanned watercraft experience 
• HPC knowledge

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