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The successful candidate will work with a team using a high-performance data, ingest, archive, and processing system supporting the NASA Atmosphere Science Investigator-Led Processing System (A-SIPS), a component of the NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) Mission.  The A-SIPS at SSEC is responsible for ingesting, storing, processing, and delivering data products derived from low earth-orbiting environmental satellites constituting the Joint Polar Satellite System constellation.  The computer system supporting this effort currently includes more than 6000 CPU cores for data processing configured as a high-throughput computing system; more than 7 Petabytes (PB) of storage is in a cluster file system; high-performance networking; and a job management system controlled by a relational database.  The A-SIPS currently ingests more than 2 Terabytes (TB) of data per day from NASA and other sources.  The UW-SSEC A-SIPS team also assists NASA Atmosphere Science Team members implement, evaluate, and continuously refine scientific algorithms and products focused on improving, extending, and maintaining curated sensor and sensor-derived geophysical data records critical to monitoring of long-term climate.