Applications Support Analyst 1

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