Geophysical Software Engineer Berkeley Seismological Lab

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The Berkeley Seismological Laboratory 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 is a geophysical software engineer position for the real-time processing and archiving of geophysical data as well as the delivery of real-time earthquakes products.

The First Review Date for this job is:
February 17, 2026 - Open Until Filled

• 20% Plans, designs, integrates, develops, tests, deploys, configures, operates, maintains and documents advanced geophysical data (e.g. seismic, geodetic, DAS) processing and archiving software, including in containerized and scalable cloud environments. Addresses integration issues with other state and national partners. Locally develops software components and sub-components to achieve fully integrated implementation.
• 20% Leads analyses of state-of-the-art solutions for geophysical data processing, including machine-learning-based approaches. Identifies, evaluates, recommends and leads implementation changes to existing software, or new software needed, researches and coordinates with internal and external stakeholders to identify solutions.
• 20% Develops and maintains continuous integration and deployment (CICD) pipelines for the maintained software. This includes maintaining and updating the build environment, tests, configuration, documentation and automatic notification system of build and testing issues. This also includes the development of extensive unit, integration, functional and end-to-end tests.
• 20% Plans, designs, integrates, develops, tests, deploys, configures, operates, maintains and documents 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 timely production and delivery of earthquake products, troubleshooting and identification of metric issues and system optimization with the overarching goal of delivering timely and high quality products to our partners and data users.
  
  This also includes investigating complex performance anomalies, conducting root-cause analysis across interconnected components, and collaborating with external agency partners on system interoperability.
• 10% Manages and updates system configurations, performs system components upgrades and support operating system migrations.
• 10% Leads and participates in technical collaboration teams and working groups on geophysical data processing and archiving systems, data format exchange system interconnectivity concepts, design, and testing requirements.

• Bachelor's degree in geophysics / computer science and / or equivalent experience.
• Advanced knowledge on the design, development, testing, integration, configuration, operation and…