Open Source Lead

Summary

Join CarbonPlan, a nonprofit research organization, as the Open Source Lead to design and implement open source software engineering and data science solutions that support the organization’s program and policy work.

Requirements

• Passion for our mission
• 6+ years using scientific computing or related tools (in either a research or software setting)
• Experience using scientific Python, managing cloud computing infrastructure, building databases and REST APIs, and using and contributing to open source ecosystems
• A portfolio of relevant open source software projects, publications, etc
• Experience as a project and people manager
• Experience as a leader in open source communities
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Enthusiasm for hands-on coding and implementation work, as well as for leadership and management
• Experience working in highly collaborative and cross-functional environments

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and hands-on collaboration to ensure all team members can execute on both simple and more ambitious projects involving data and software
• Design and manage best practices for a software stack built around scientific Python, cloud computing, cloud data storage (currently on Azure, AWS, and Google), and the Pangeo tool ecosystem (e.g., Jupyter, Zarr, Xarray, etc.)
• Manage and mentor a small team of software and data engineers
• Communicate, with support from our editorial team, our approaches to open source software through blog posts, podcasts, op-eds, etc., and act as a leader in the community advocating for open science practices
• Identify opportunities for creating and contributing to the development of open source tools that are useful for our program work and also useful to the broader open source and climate research community (see, for example, our work on web-based mapping tools )
• Manage software development projects built in collaboration with external partners
• As interest and time allows, identify and help pursue new grant-funded opportunities to contribute to open source and open science efforts relevant to climate research or the earth sciences (e.g., new libraries, formats, standards, etc.)

Benefits

• Health insurance (99% of costs covered for employees, 75% for dependents)
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Flexible health spending accounts
• Dependent care spending accounts
• Life insurance
• 401(k) retirement fund with employer contribution
• Generous paid time off policy
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• Remote work expense reimbursements