Internship - Retrievals Toolchain group

GHGSat offers greenhouse gas detection, measurement, and monitoring services to industrial and government customers around the world. We use our own satellites and aircraft sensors, combined with third-party data, to help industrial emitters better understand, control, and reduce their emissions.

 

As our satellite constellation and number of remote sensing instruments grow to meet increasing international demand for our services, we are looking for an intern to join the Retrievals Toolchain. As an intern, you will work with us to create the highest quality data products for our clients using the raw data collected by GHGSat’s instruments.

 

At the core of the GHGSat measurement concept is a suite of scientific software tools, the GHGSat Retrievals Toolchain, which retrieves local concentrations of methane and carbon dioxide from the imagery acquired by GHGSat instruments. We are seeking an intern to join the Retrievals Toolchain Team. You will work with us to create the highest quality data products for our clients using the raw data collected by GHGSat’s instruments. If you love Science and have a passion for software development, then this is the internship for you!

 

The Retrievals Toolchain team has a flexible work environment with the option for remote work, but we expect applicants to work partially out of one of our offices with a preference for our Headquarters in Montreal, QC.

Responsibilities:

Your internship project will be selected based on company priorities and the interests and skill set of the candidate. Your main responsibilities will include:

• Optimization of retrievals toolchain parameters to deliver best quality retrieval products.
• Develop, test, integrate and deploy Toolchain software in the Cloud and on-prem infrastructure.
• Engage collaboratively with GHGSat teams (in particular the Systems, Operations and Software Teams) to define requirements for new software and suggest improvements to existing tools.

Your skills:

• Strong software skills: experience with Python and C++/C in a Linux environment.
• Experience in collaborative software development (git)
• Interest in scientific analysis, atmospheric sciences, remote sensing, and space science
• Ability to listen to and have effective discussions with a multi-disciplinary team (engineers, scientists, program managers, external partners, etc.)
• Ability to work both autonomously and collaboratively within the team
• Drive to solve problems, interpret results and document conclusions
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

 

Your background (must-have):

• Computer science, data science, Physics, applied mathematics, engineering or equivalent background
• Experience in scientific programming and data analysis (Python and C++/C in a Linux environment)
• Able to obtain Canadian government security clearance

Extra cool if you have knowledge in...

• Spectroscopy, image processing
• Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
• Curve fitting, machine learning, computer vision