The Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division is seeking a Software Developer to join the Sustainable Transportation Initiative. The Sustainable Transportation Initiative conducts research to identify and quantify energy, environment, equity, and mobility implications from changes to the transportation system using interdisciplinary methods that combine engineering, economics, human behavior, technology, and computational science.

In this exciting role, you will maintain and help grow a program in transportation energy research, including the development of a variety of transportation system models at various scales and levels of resolution, including agent-based simulation models of future transportation systems that have greater shares of shared, connected, automated and electrified travel modes, with the goal of identifying new opportunities to reduce energy use and environmental impacts while increasing mobility. In this role, you will creatively develop new methods to understand the behavior of complex socio-technical systems given substantial uncertainty and limited data.

What You Will Do:

• Plan, design, develop and test software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products.

• Develop, modify, and implement new or existing software solutions.

• Design, develop and improve transportation system models for DOE-VTO and other agencies. This includes agent-based models of regional transportation systems and electricity grid models

• Work as one of the lead technical modelers within ETA’s Sustainable Transportation Initiative and collectively with other researchers in the initiative to develop a portfolio of high impact research.

• Contribute to research concepts and projects within the DOE Vehicle Technology Office – in coordination with DOE program managers and other national lab researchers.

• Collaborate closely with other researchers in ETA who work in areas that connect to transportation, including the electricity grid, energy storage, and building and urban science.

• Develop methods to assess the energy, economic, equity and environmental benefits and costs of large-scale transportation electrification in the U.S.

• Develop the transportation system models into public-facing software packages for broad research use.

• Contribute to the BEAM agent-based transportation system model development team as a technical modeler.

Additional Responsibilities as needed:

• Present research to DOE and to scientific and lay audiences.

• Collaborate with Scientific team to produce journal articles related to sustainable transportation.

• Collaborate with ETA researchers to provide information that may be used in grant proposals.

• Supervise junior researchers effectively.

• Serve as a responsible steward of resources (human, financial, capital).

What is Required:

• 5 years of related experience of software project development or equivalent with a Bachelor’s degree in Transportation, Transportation Engineering, Computer Science, or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or equivalent work experience.

• 5+ years of demonstrated computer programming experience in one or more of the following: Python, Java, Scala, C/C++.

• Experience leading software development teams .

• Experience writing production-quality code as part of a software development team.

• Experience translating policy-relevant research questions into concrete software design decisions for simulation models.

• Experience developing and using agent-based transportation system models, such as BEAM.

• Experience in modeling the activity of freight vehicles in regional transportation systems.

• Experience using models that combine the transportation system (such as BEAM) and electric grid system.

• Familiarity with using interpreted programming languages (such as Python or R) for data analysis and visualization, as well as for model prototyping.

• Familiarity with compiled programming languages, such as Java, Scala, and C++, preferably in the context of high-performance agent-based modeling.

• Excellent writing and communication skills.

• Excellent understanding of transportation technologies and policies, including those related to ridehailing services, electric vehicles, public transportation, micromobility, and land use.

• Ability to work effectively in a team environment as well as independently.

• Ability to meet deadlines and manage changing work demands while producing high-quality results.

• Must be available to start by June 15, 2023.

Desired Qualifications:

• PhD in Transportation, Transportation Engineering, Computer Science or a related field.

• Expertise in high-performance computing (HPC) environments.

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Notes:

• This is a full-time, career appointment, exempt (monthly paid) from overtime pay.

• The full salary range for this position is $116,868.00 - $142,860.00. The budgeted salary range that the Lab reasonably expects to pay for this position is $123,370.80 - $136,357.20. Salary offers will be commensurate with the final candidate’s qualification and experience, including skills, knowledge, relevant education, and certifications, and also aligned with the internal peer group.

• This position may be subject to a background check. Any convictions will be evaluated to determine if they directly relate to the responsibilities and requirements of the position. Having a conviction history will not automatically disqualify an applicant from being considered for employment.

• Work will be primarily performed at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA.

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