Technical Integration Engineer

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) is a research and development center with an international reputation for developing instrumentation for both terrestrial and space flight applications. SSEC's mission includes the support of faculty and academic staff led research, development, fabrication and implementation of space flight experiments, as well as the development of new meteorological research tools for national and international use. The successful candidate will work with a team using a high-performance data ingest, archive, processing, and product delivery system as part of the NASA Science Investigator-led Processing System (SIPS) supporting NASA Atmosphere Discipline Science Teams and their efforts to characterize and develop long-term Cloud and Aerosol Climate Data Records. The computer systems supporting this effort currently include more than 4900 CPU cores for data processing configured as a high throughput computing system; more than16 Petabytes of storage in a cluster file system, high performance networking, and a job management system controlled by a relational database. The Atmosphere SIPS currently produces more than 2 Terabytes of data per day from NASA and other sources, and runs a variety of algorithms on the data to create geophysical products for delivery to NASA Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) and Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE). In addition to processing new VIIRS-based earth observations as they become available, the framework also supports recursive, inquiry-based, Science Team mission record reprocessing and redelivery focused on continuously improving science products and data records.