Assistant Research Scientist; PREP

General Description

Salary: $20.5-$24.5 per hour

PDR‑data visualization - PREP Research Associate

This position is part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Professional Research Experience (PREP) program. NIST recognizes that its research staff may wish to collaborate with researchers at academic institutions on specific projects of mutual interest, thus requires that such institutions must be the recipient of a PREP award. The PREP program requires staff from a wide range of backgrounds to work on scientific research in many areas.

Employees in this position will perform technical work that underpins the scientific research of the collaboration.

Research

Title:

Dynamic data visualization for tabular data

Research Overview: The researcher is responsible for developing a tool to visualize tabular data from datasets published in the NIST public data repository (PDR). Researcher will explore frictionless data standard, implement this standard for tabular data in PDR, and enhance the current metadata standard (NERDm) to support the tabular data as needed. This can be applied to new datasets generated and published under specific Critical Emerging Technologies (CETs) program.

This dynamic visualization of data will help researchers explore NIST data products in real time, enhancing the user experience of the current PDR.

The key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Learn and understand the PDR system
• Understand domain specific data and metadata standards
• Use and explore AI techniques to support data visualization
• Enhance the existing PDR system with additions
• Regularly update code and deliver the code repository along with documentation
• Attend regular meetings with NIST

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Manufacturing, or a related field.
• 2–3 years of relevant experience.
• Familiarity with Dev Ops and CICD pipelines.
• Familiarity with multiple programming and scripting languages.
• Ability to develop prototypes of tools.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.

Please upload the following with your application:

• CV/Resume
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