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Applications Support Analyst 1
  • Job Number: 25180
  • Functional Area: Research - Engineering
  • Department: Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • School Area: Engineering
  • Pay Range Minimum: $67,200
  • Pay Range Maximum: $91,100
  • Employment Type: Full-Time
  • Employment Category: Exempt
  • Visa Sponsorship Available: No
  • Schedule: M-F
  • Pay Grade: 7


Posting Description

APPLICATION SUPPORT SYSTEM ANALYST 1, Aeronautics and Astronautics, is responsible for maintenance and support of the cloud-based Integrated Methane Inversion (IMI) software for quantifying greenhouse gas fluxes from satellite observations; maintaining internal code design and development guides for future contributors; supporting the VaronGroup’s research program by maintaining the group’s software and databases on MIT’s high-performance computing clusters; assisting MIT postdoctoral fellows and graduate students with their research projects, which may involve maintaining data and codebases, implementing new scientific features into the IMI, running the IMI, or visualizing results; and learning from developer meetings with researchers how to design, plan, and implement software that enriches research productivity and reliability, and other duties as needed or required.

Job Requirements

REQUIRED: Bachelor’s degree in atmospheric science, environmental engineering, or a related field; a minimum of two years of relevant experience; and strong scientific programming skills. PREFERRED: Experience with shell-scripting and Python programming and experience with cloud-based computing and software versioning tools.

9/16/2025