Geospatial Data Analyst
Founded in 1999 in the beautiful Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee, Cadre5 provides innovative technical solutions to our customers locally and nationally. Our Cadre5 Lab Partners division has partnered with The Human Geography Group within the Human Dynamics Section at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to recruit a qualified Data Analyst. In this role you will work with a team of talented researchers, engineers, and technologists to support existing population and building occupancy workflows for data development, provide updates to the workflows, and help to drive the next generation of population modeling research in support of critical national security missions through a team-based approach and commitment to excellence.
A successful candidate will work on challenging, multidisciplinary projects that advance our understanding of human processes as they interact with the virtual, natural, and built environment. Solving problems motivated by national security challenges, you will use geospatial analysis, demographic and cultural knowledge to model the relationship between built environment characteristics and human population densities across space and time. You will have the opportunity to support the development of data and models through data driven and statistical methods using open-source demographic, sociocultural and economic data from local to global scales. As a member of the Human Geography Group, you’ll focus on support of daily activities of existing workflows as well as updating and developing new methods and models in discovery of the functional and complex connections between humans and their physical, cultural, and socioeconomic landscapes.
ORNL delivers scientific discoveries and technical breakthroughs needed to realize solutions in energy and national security and provides economic benefit to the nation. This premier research institution located near Knoxville in Oak Ridge, TN, addresses national needs through impactful research and world-leading research centers.
This is a full-time, permanent position that will follow a Hybrid working model.
Why Cadre5?
- Working with highly talented team members
- 3 weeks’ vacation
- Excellent medical insurance, up to 100% paid by employer
Job Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the systematic development and updating of population models for facility types worldwide, from the local to regional scale.
- Leverage a variety of open-source data including censuses and surveys, user generated content, longitudinal or ethnographic data to for building occupancy or population distribution data development.
- Use statistical and/or computational methods to enhance the spatial, temporal, and demographic resolution of our modeling and analysis.
- Support review, update, and develop new quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods for updates to statistical building occupancies to accommodate newly discovered open-source data.
- Contribute to the development of tools and processes that automate open-source data collection, increasing access and visibility of open-source data and building occupancy and population models to stakeholders and the user community.
- Contribute to team publications in journals, participate in conferences, and engage with other scientists, technicians, and analysts in the private sector, academia, and US Government communities.
Basic Qualifications:
- Master’s degree or higher in Geography, Demography, or a related discipline.
- Experience in analyzing and interacting with census statistics and microdata, other social/health surveys, and other structured or unstructured open-source datasets.
- Experience in geospatial analysis including use of open source and/or commercial geospatial tools such as ArcGIS, QGIS, or PostGIS.
- Experience with qualitative and quantitative population research methods with focus on sociocultural and economic spatial and temporal processes in the built environment.
- Experience in open-source data mining and collection techniques.
- Experience in remote sensing and image interpretation.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Capable of working successfully in a team environment.
- The ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Energy "Q" clearance is required. This requires US Citizenship.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with research or development about different cultures and cultural practices around the world.
- Experience with Python, R, and/or other similar languages for statistical analysis.
- Experience in analyzing and interacting with social media, digital trace data, or time series data.
- Experience with remote sensing and image interpretation including multispectral and hyperspectral data, spectral analysis, and LiDAR.
- Fluency in other cultural languages or working knowledge of key word or phrases spoken in another language in support of open-source data collection.
- Demonstrated record of research as evidenced by scientific output including peer-reviewed publications.
- Experience leading research initiatives with colleagues or team members.
Benefits
Cadre5 offers excellent pay and benefits, to include full medical, dental, and vision coverage coupled with 401K match, 15 days PTO, and 10 holidays.
Cadre5 is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants, including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans, are encouraged to apply. Cadre5 is an E-Verify Employer.