Geophysical Data Acquisition & Quality Team Lead Berkeley Seismological Lab

Overview

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The Berkeley Seismological Laboratory (BSL) conducts essential research on earthquakes and solid earth processes while collecting and delivering high quality geophysical data. It provides robust earthquake and hazard information including real-time alerts to the public, in collaboration with our partners. It also enables the broad consumption of earthquake information by everyone while educating and training students at all levels and from all backgrounds.

BSL operates a large network of seismic and geodetic stations as well as DAS systems across northern California. These stations/systems stream data in real time to our data center on Campus, where data is processed, analyzed and archived for the purposes of earthquake monitoring, earthquake early warning and scientific research. The BSL also operates the MyShake application, which provides earthquake early warning alerts to the public in the West Coast of the US.

This position is a lead position of the data acquisition, monitoring and quality team.

The First Review Date for this job is:
February 16, 2026 - Open Until Filled

20% Plans, designs, integrates, develops, tests, deploys, configures, operates, maintains and documents advanced geophysical (e.g. seismic, geodetic, DAS) data acquisition and quality systems including in cloud and containerized environments. Addresses integration issues with other state and national partners. Locally develops software components and sub-components to achieve fully integrated implementation. Builds and maintains distributed data-processing architectures in containerized and scalable cloud environments.

Leads complex integration efforts with statewide and national partners to ensure interoperability and reliable real-time data flow.

20% Plans, designs, integrates, develops, tests, deploys, configures, operates, maintains and documents advanced state-of-health monitoring and alerting tools across multiple systems. Actively uses these tools to monitor in real time the performance of these systems including the geophysical stations, telemetry infrastructure, acquisition systems (from internal and external networks) as well as data timeliness, completeness, and quality. Implements corrective actions, when necessary, including equipment configuration roll-out, software/firmware upgrades, calibrations, instrument adjustments, with the overarching goal of sustaining very high levels of timely data availability and quality.

Opens and follows up on tickets when facing issues that cannot be solved within the team. Drafts performance/operational reports for internal and external stakeholders.

20% Manages and maintains configuration of all geophysical stations, data and metadata through tools such as the…