Career Opportunity /  29 March 2026

CIRES/ ESIIL and Earth Lab Software Developer at University of Colorado-Boulder

The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) in Boulder, Colorado, is seeking a Software Developer to work in the Environmental Data Science Innovation and Impact Lab (ESIIL) and Earth Lab.

Deadline: 29 March 2026 - the deadline has passed.

Core responsibilities of the ESIIL and Earth Lab Software Developer include 

  • i) consulting with and advising researchers on how to optimize and scale their code and workflows on HPC or the cloud;
  • ii) instructing the users’ network on how to use CU Boulder, Earth Lab, and ESIIL cyberinfrastructure including leading and assisting with training events, Summits and Hackathons;
  • iii) assisting with the development and maintenance of ESIIL and Earth Lab cyberinfrastructure in coordination with key partners (e.g., CyVerse, CU Boulder Research Computing and CIRES IT);
  • iv) developing and maintaining open source codes and software (mostly, in R and Python), docker containers and key databases with documentation and metadata for the network;
  • v) developing and maintaining front-end applications including ESIIL’s integrated websystem and funding-based end-user applications; 
  • vi) helping maintain the multiple ESIIL and Earth Lab data, code, software and container repositories, as well as websites in coordination with CIRES IT and CU Boulder. 

     

The ESIIL and Earth Lab software developer will also contribute to Earth and environment data science, next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) development, and research projects, as needed. The candidate should have excellent technical and communication skills and be comfortable working in a team environment.

Full details here: 

https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/?jobId=70424