Staff Engineer (Research Software Engineer)

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We have a vacancy limited to 1.5 years for a temporary Staff Engineer (Research Software Engineer) at the Industrial Ecology Digital Lab (Industrial Ecology Programme (IndEcol), Department of Energy and Process Engineering , NTNU). 

You will work on an internal project to improve and extend the environmental footprints webpage (https://environmentalfootprints.org/ ), maintained by the Digital Lab. The webpage is one of the main outreach channels for the sustainable production and consumption research results from IndEcol and includes several interactive data visualization sub-pages. Data for these come from various (internal and external) sources and is currently manually gathered, harmonised and deployed.  

Over the course of 1.5 years, we plan to transition this process towards a fully automated data pipeline (CI/CD), starting from the underlying socio-economic databases. Connected to this, we will develop new visualization capabilities for the presentation of environmental footprints with uncertainties connected to the ongoing NRC funded project HiTEA (https://hitea.iedl.no/ ). This will involve finding novel solutions for providing big-data outcomes from HPC processing on a relatively small-scale web-hosting platform. Thus, the position will require day-to-day interactions with scientists in the sub-domains of industrial ecology, providing solutions for highly scalable applications (HPC and cloud computing).

IndEcol is a pioneer in the development and application of industrial ecology methods, as well as the use of large data sets and scientific computing in industrial ecology. We focus on understanding resource use and environmental pollution associated with human activities, assessing the environmental aspects of different technologies and modeling society’s use of materials. IndEcol combines world-class competence in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Input-Output analysis (I/O), and Material Flow Analysis (MFA) with scientists’ contribution to IPCC assessment reports, the International Resource Panel, active participation to the UNEP/SETAC Life-Cycle Initiative, and numerous publications featured in high-ranked journals. IndEcol hosts its own International MSc program and contributes to NTNU’s engineering education- The research team consisting of eight faculty members, the Industrial Ecology Digital Laboratory , and about 70 researchers, post.docs and PhDs.  We offer excellent subsequent job prospects through gaining experience with data science and high- performance computing in combination with sustainability analysis.

You will report to the Manager and Lead Researcher of the Digital Laboratory (https://www.iedl.no/ ).