NCICS’s diverse workforce of researchers, technical experts, post-docs, and support staff engage in a range of research projects and collaboration activities with the fundamental goal of enhancing our collective interdisciplinary understanding of the state and evolution of the full Earth System. The Institute is located in downtown Asheville, NC, and we are co-located with the headquarters of NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information.
See Why Work at NCICS? for more on what we do and why you might want to join our team.
Current Job Postings
Full Stack Web Developer
The NC Institute for Climate Studies (NCICS) provides support to the NOAA Technical Support Unit (TSU) who works with the U.S. Global Change Research Program to produce the U.S. National Climate Assessment (NCA) and other reports and products that are part of the sustained assessment process. NCICS is in need of a Full Stack Web Developer to design, develop, implement, and maintain both browser- and server-based solutions for scientific and analytical products utilizing industry best practices.
The position is situated within an existing web team which currently does the following work:
- Designs, develops, implements, and maintains report websites for the sustained assessment process, including the report websites for the National Climate Assessment.
- Designs, develops, implements, and maintains web applications that support the sustained assessment process.
- Provides technical support for a range of users within this process including members of the NOAA TSU, U.S. Global Change Research Program, report authors, and members of the general public.
Please see the job listing on the NC State website for more information on tasks and requirements and instructions on applying.
Front End Web Developer
The North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies (NCICS) provides support to the NOAA Technical Support Unit (TSU) who works with the U.S. Global Change Research Program to produce the U.S. National Climate Assessment (NCA) and other reports and products that are part of the sustained assessment process. NCICS is in need of a Front End Web Developer to design, develop, implement, and maintain web applications for scientific and analytical products, graphics, and content that comply with recognized usability and accessibility standards as well as industry best practices.
The position is situated within an existing web team which currently does the following work:
- Designs, develops, implements, and maintains report websites for the sustained assessment process, including the report websites for the National Climate Assessment.
- Designs, develops, implements, and maintains web applications that support the sustained assessment process.
- Provides technical support for a range of users within this process including members of the NOAA TSU, U.S. Global Change Research Program, report authors, and members of the general public.
Please see the job listing on the NC State website for more information on tasks and requirements and instructions on applying.
Climate Data Analyst
The Climate Data Analyst will provide scientific and programmatic support in the development, implementation, and quality control assessment of in situ and remotely sensed products and applications. Some of the key tasks planned for this position include:
- providing scientific programming expertise to develop high-quality, large-scale research datasets using real-time application software for analysis/calibration of environmental data.
- performing climate data collection and analysis
- participating in environmentally related studies involving large-scale environmental data sets
- contributing to the scientific analysis of climate data sets to improving data quality and advance interpretation of observations.
Please see the job listing on the NC State website for more information on tasks and requirements and instructions on applying.
Postdoctoral Research Scholar — Climate Attribution Studies
The Postdoctoral Research Scholar will provide scientific and technical support in climate assessment science and data analysis. Primary responsibilities include participation in creating the capability to evaluate causes of extreme weather and climate-related events. Anticipated activities and research studies will include the development and testing of prototype systems that leverage capabilities to conduct objective, quantitative assessments of the causes for extreme events having high impacts on the United States.
The Postdoctoral Research Scholar will contribute to climate science analyses and perform targeted cutting-edge research on the causes of extreme weather and climate-related events as well as associated sustained attribution activities. This will include the use of traditional climate monitoring frameworks to help define the boundaries of events, synthesis of different climate trend and climate variability components which may be responsible for climate extremes, leveraging seasonal hindcast data sets to assess how the probability density function of daily variability (and its extremes) is influenced by climate trend and climate variability, and assessment of private-sector and public-partner attribution needs. Targeted research topics may include meteorological interpretation of extreme event trends, causes of regional variations, and weather system analysis of CMIP6 simulations.
Please see the job listing on the NC State website for more information on tasks and requirements and instructions on applying.
Postdoctoral Research Scholar – GOES Fundamental Climate Data Record
The Postdoctoral Research Scholar will be working in the area of satellite data analysis to support the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Fundamental Climate Data Record (FCDR). Projected tasks include international coordination with EUMETSAT efforts in the GEORING project, review and assessment of calibration approaches for historical GOES data, definition of a GOES FCDR format with NOAA and international collaborators, and preparation for data processing, including investigation of on-prem and cloud options.
The Postdoctoral Research Scholar will be responsible for the support of satellite data analysis activities, including coordination with the GEO-Ring group and US investigators, review of calibration approaches, definition of an FCDR format for the time series, and a processing architecture for these observations to produce a consistent long-term time series.
Please see the job listing on the NC State website for more information on tasks and requirements and instructions on applying.
Please Note:
- To apply for jobs, please click the link in the job title above and follow the instructions provided on the NCSU job page for that position.
- Unless otherwise indicated, these positions will be located at our offices in downtown Asheville, North Carolina.
- For information on internships, please see our Internships page.
- NC State is committed to diversity, inclusion and equal opportunity: NC State University is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, genetic information, status as an individual with a disability or status as a protected veteran.
- For information on other employment opportunities with North Carolina State University, please see: NCSU Jobs.