The Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health seeks a Staff Associate I (Programmer) to support research on infectious disease systems. The successful candidate will support multiple projects investigating infectious diseases, develop packages for disseminating infectious disease modeling and forecasting systems, generate and distribute real-time, operational infectious disease forecasts and projections, and support the transfer of technical expertise to public health officials, in particular, the use of infectious disease models, analytics and forecasts. The programmer will join a dynamic team of computational biologists, epidemiologists, and mathematicians researching a range of infectious diseases, including influenza, COVID-19, malaria, dengue and anti-microbial resistant organisms.

Minimum Qualifications:

--Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related discipline.
--Experience programming in four or more of the following languages—Matlab, R, Python, JAVA, SQL, OpenGL, C++--is required.
--Strong technical and numerical skills, a love of research and inquiry, an ability to work both collaboratively and independently, and strong oral and written communication skills are also needed.