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The K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics (Yang Center) is one of six programmatic centers within the Lab. Its mission is to collect and interpret sounds in nature by developing and applying innovative technologies across multiple ecologically relevant scales to inspire and inform the conservation of wildlife and habitats. Our highly interdisciplinary team of scientists, educators, engineers, students, and research support personnel is working with many national and international collaborators on a wide variety of terrestrial, aquatic, and marine bioacoustic research projects tackling conservation issues worldwide.

This position will join a team of engineers focused on developing conservation technologies researchers worldwide use to record sound in nature in support of marine and terrestrial conservation efforts. The position will primarily focus on developing user-friendly interfaces that allow scientists and practitioners to interact with and program our recording hardware. This includes our terrestrial recording unit, called Swift. The Swift is a low-cost acoustic recorder that researchers use to capture the sounds of birds, frogs, insects, and other wildlife. A software interface is used to configure the operating parameters of the recorder, and maintaining and improving this software will be one of the position’s responsibilities.

The position reports to the Director of the Yang Center; this role will be expected to:

• Study and understand how the existing C# and Swift+SwiftUI codebase works.
• Expand and improve the code by adding features, improvements, and bug fixes.
• Work closely with hardware engineers to ensure the software is thoroughly tested and reliable.
• Work towards porting the Windows code to other platforms, such as Android OS.
• Advise on user interface changes that might make the program easier and more intuitive.
• Assist in producing and updating documentation.
• Work with users on support issues.

The Software Developer must foster and maintain excellent working relationships with coworkers, collaborators, students, and customers from diverse cultural and educational backgrounds. This requires approaching all matters with an open mind, a sense of curiosity, a service-minded attitude, and diplomacy.

This is a full-time, 12-month position. The position is renewed annually based on performance and available funding.

This position is located at the Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, New York. We offer a hybrid work arrangement, with in-office and remote days mutually determined between you and your supervisor. Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Key non-technical and technical requirements

• Experience in and/or demonstrated commitment to supporting diversity, equity, access, inclusion, and wellbeing.
• Passionate about working in an organization that values and promotes diversity, equity, inclusion, anti-racism, and wellbeing.
• Ability to cultivate and develop inclusive and equitable working relationships with students, faculty, staff, and community members. 
• A thorough understanding of object-oriented programming and GUI applications.
• Experience creating and modifying code for desktop applications in C# and/or other strongly typed object-oriented languages.
• Experience developing and maintaining application code for cross-platform functionality, such as Android OS.
• Experience with version control systems and issue-tracking software such as Git and Jira.
• Good interpersonal skills and diplomacy required with a variety of domain experts, as well as the ability to help establish realistic goals and deliver work on schedule.
• Self-motivated, willing to learn new skills, able to work both as part of a team and independently, and to regularly communicate status and progress.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information science, or engineering with a minimum of 3 years relevant experience and at least 2 years programming experience.

If you possess these experiences and skills, this may be the role for you! Additional preferred qualifications include:

• Experience with full software lifecycle development for desktop GUI applications in Visual C# and MacOS.
• Proven ability to work effectively with programmers, scientists, and engineers in a dynamic, creative, multi-disciplinary environment.
• An understanding of USB interfaces and some knowledge of low-level programming of microcontrollers.

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University Job Title:

Applications Programmer III

Job Family:

Information Technology

Level:

F

Pay Rate Type:

Salary

Pay Range:

$82,319.00 - $95,669.00

Remote Option Availability:

Hybrid Remote

Company:

Contract College

Contact Name:

Denise Smith

Number of Openings:

1

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