Scientific Software Developer Intern

About Us
Jupiter is the global market leader in analytics for resilience planning and enterprise climate risk management, especially in financial services, industrial, the public sector, and NGOs. Jupiter is led by pioneers in data, climate, and earth and ocean sciences, as well as technology, risk management, company building, and public policy. Our climate risk modeling solutions save lives and mitigate potentially catastrophic impacts inflicted by hurricanes, floods, heat waves, wildfires, drought, and other extreme weather events on homes, businesses, infrastructure, food and water supplies, and entire economies.
Bringing diversity to prepare a diverse planet for our changing climate​Jupiter was founded on the principle that with the right approaches and the right team, we can prepare Earth’s economies to meet the challenges associated with climate change. The world is a diverse place; a diverse workforce in an inclusive environment is essential to meet our goals. We go forward together. We seek new colleagues—data scientists, physical scientists, software engineers, company builders, and more—who share our passion for excellence, innovation, and collaboration. Jupiter was founded on the principle that with the right approaches and the right team, we can prepare Earth’s economies to meet the challenges associated with climate change.
The Jupiter Intelligence Earth and Ocean Science Internship program affords successful candidates the opportunity to work with Jupiter’s science team on a project relevant to Jupiter’s mission of predicting risk in a changing climate.  This 2-3 month paid position is designed to allow the Jupiter science team to engage with promising and motivated students interested in Data Science. Interns will apply cutting-edge analysis and modeling techniques to questions related to climate-related hazards and risk assessment using the Jupiter platform.  Broad topic areas include, but are not limited to: -       Predicting streamflow in ungauged river basins-       Constructing emulators for complex geophysical models-       Downscaling climate model output-       Methods for fitting and working with extreme value distributions-       IT and Cloud computing support for scientists and developers on the above projects

Duties & Responsibilities

• Identify and scope a specific project with their Jupiter mentor and the Jupiter science team to be accomplished within the timeframe of the internship
• Learn about and use project and code management tools to organize and track progress with their Jupiter mentor
• Develop a core product (e.g., a codebase or a scientific report) that can be used by the Jupiter team and by the intern as a showcase of the intern's skills
• Present the results of their work to the entire company at the end of the internship
• IT assists in the building of development environments and tools for code development and testing
• IT assists in AWS Cloud support in areas such as computing and storage services[1] 
• You will be supporting the computation environment and development of tools that the EOS interns need to complete their tasks
• This can also include building development services on the cloud as well as assisting in python related library management, and integrated development environment tools

Qualifications:

• Graduate student in statistics, computer science, geography, or other data science field or a science and technical field aligned with Jupiter’s mission (exceptional senior undergraduates may also be considered)
• Able to work a standard full-time schedule for 10-12 weeks during summer 2022
• Strong scientific programming skills, including experience with Python
• Experience with methods from applied statistics and/or machine learning algorithms
• Preference for candidates with experience with geophysical data
• Preference for candidates with experience in software management tools such as git
• IT ability to diagnose user issues related to collaborative coding projects
• IT experience in troubleshooting the intersections of python development tools, cloud computing requirements and storage access

Jupiter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer to all, regardless of age, ancestry, color, disability (mental and physical), exercising the right to family care and medical leave, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religious creed, sex (includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions), and sexual orientation.
Must be authorized to work in the U.S. now and in the future without sponsorship.This is a paid internship.
Please submit your Cover Letter and Resume to us to see if there might be a great fit.