The Geospatial Data Science (GDS) Group in NREL’s Strategic Energy Analysis Center is seeking a mid- to senior-level software developer who will build JavaScript (JS) based full-stack applications in a serverless Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment. The GDS group, designs, develops and deploys innovative applications and software systems to enhance NREL’s mission to solve real-world energy system problems. Our group leads modeling and visualization research at the intersection of renewable energy deployment, geospatial technologies, big data science, and application development. The GDS application product suite leverages analysis through visualization and the flexibility of modern web design practices to enable users to better understand complex data and make informed decisions. This portfolio of applications serves a diverse range of stakeholders both within NREL and external to the laboratory.

The successful candidate will participate in a team environment with structured development lifecycles, as follows: analyze and define system requirements, perform system/application design, develop capability prototypes, develop and implement operational systems, conduct unit and integration testing of application modules. The successful candidate will help develop analysis and visualization frameworks to address problems that are inherently spatiotemporal in resource availability, energy distribution networks, and energy demand scenarios. Candidates should be interested in working in an interdisciplinary field, together with computer scientists, policy analysts, and data engineers, which will require excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Duties will include:

• Work internally with product managers, developers, designers and data scientists
• Work across all layers of code while maintaining a solid understanding of the architecture
• Design and implement new features and also maintain and debug existing ones
• Stay up to date on emerging technologies
• Integrate data from back-end services, databases and APIs
• Contribute and follow quality assurance procedures and documentation.
• Test and evaluate new applications
• Deploy and monitor the application suite

For examples of our existing products, visit https://www.nrel.gov/gis/applications-visualizations.html

Please submit a cover letter with your application to be considered.