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Questions?: Contact Christine Routzahn, Director of Internships at The Shriver Center at UMBC at routzahn@umbc.edu
The U.S. Census Bureau is currently hiring Computer Scientists for the Innovation Technology Office to develop corporate solutions in the area of multi-mode data collection and geospatial technology. We are continuously developing new software applications for an extensive list of large censuses and surveys. Work has included the 2002 and 2007 Economic Census, 2007 Census of Agriculture, American Community Survey (2007 to present), 2009 Kenya Population and Housing Census and 2011 Bangladesh Census. These projects used questionnaire scanning and image based optical mark recognition and optical character recognition. They required data capture of over 56 million questionnaires from over 172 million scanned images. In 2013 we will be processing the Economic Census and Census of Agriculture. Future work includes application software prototype development for the 2020 Census and numerous within census and inter-government agencies. Current work in developing new geospatial data analysis applications are being done to promote better analysis of existing census and survey data as well as real time monitoring of future project production processing. Open source software languages, databases and operating systems provide much of the framework for this work.
Team-centric applicants should have but not limited to the following skill sets and abilities:
• transform abstract ideas to create innovative applications and systems
• engineer complex systems to capture, manipulate, transform, or present information
• use open source languages, databases and operating systems
• apply theoretical foundations of computer science, including computer system architecture and system software to develop solutions for processing and analyzing large censuses and surveys
• coordinate the construction, maintenance, and expansion of an organization's computer systems
• responsible for the design and implementation of computer assisted data capture systems and data quality management
• incorporate many aspects of computer design, the creation of individual components for computer equipment, networking design, and integrating software options with the hardware that will drive the applications
• work experience and knowledge of Windows 7, Windows XP, Linux, MySQL, APACHE, java, php, and PostGRES
• ability to think creatively and develop innovative solutions to improve complex data processing and analysis
* * All Positions REQUIRE U.S. Citizenship
Dress Code:
The Census Bureau has a business casual dress code. It is not necessary to wear a suit. However, an intern should dress professionally.
Leave:
- An intern can earn annual and sick leave while working full-time at a rate of four (4) hours per pay period
- An intern can earn annual and sick leave while working part-time at a rate of one hour for each twenty (20) hours in a pay status per pay period.
Work Schedules:
- Full-time is 40 hours a week
- Part time requires at least 16 hours a week
- Intermittent work schedules allow an intern to work less than 16 hours per week.
Salary:
- Your salary is based on education and the information that you provided in your application. The amount of credits you have earned and the type of degree you are pursuing determines your salary. See Handout below along with the following LINK.
Questions?: Contact Christine Routzahn, Director of Internships at The Shriver Center at UMBC at routzahn@umbc.edu
The U.S. Census Bureau is currently hiring Computer Scientists for the Innovation Technology Office to develop corporate solutions in the area of multi-mode data collection and geospatial technology. We are continuously developing new software applications for an extensive list of large censuses and surveys. Work has included the 2002 and 2007 Economic Census, 2007 Census of Agriculture, American Community Survey (2007 to present), 2009 Kenya Population and Housing Census and 2011 Bangladesh Census. These projects used questionnaire scanning and image based optical mark recognition and optical character recognition. They required data capture of over 56 million questionnaires from over 172 million scanned images. In 2013 we will be processing the Economic Census and Census of Agriculture. Future work includes application software prototype development for the 2020 Census and numerous within census and inter-government agencies. Current work in developing new geospatial data analysis applications are being done to promote better analysis of existing census and survey data as well as real time monitoring of future project production processing. Open source software languages, databases and operating systems provide much of the framework for this work.
Team-centric applicants should have but not limited to the following skill sets and abilities:
• transform abstract ideas to create innovative applications and systems
• engineer complex systems to capture, manipulate, transform, or present information
• use open source languages, databases and operating systems
• apply theoretical foundations of computer science, including computer system architecture and system software to develop solutions for processing and analyzing large censuses and surveys
• coordinate the construction, maintenance, and expansion of an organization's computer systems
• responsible for the design and implementation of computer assisted data capture systems and data quality management
• incorporate many aspects of computer design, the creation of individual components for computer equipment, networking design, and integrating software options with the hardware that will drive the applications
• work experience and knowledge of Windows 7, Windows XP, Linux, MySQL, APACHE, java, php, and PostGRES
• ability to think creatively and develop innovative solutions to improve complex data processing and analysis
* * All Positions REQUIRE U.S. Citizenship
Dress Code:
The Census Bureau has a business casual dress code. It is not necessary to wear a suit. However, an intern should dress professionally.
Leave:
- An intern can earn annual and sick leave while working full-time at a rate of four (4) hours per pay period
- An intern can earn annual and sick leave while working part-time at a rate of one hour for each twenty (20) hours in a pay status per pay period.
Work Schedules:
- Full-time is 40 hours a week
- Part time requires at least 16 hours a week
- Intermittent work schedules allow an intern to work less than 16 hours per week.
Salary:
- Your salary is based on education and the information that you provided in your application. The amount of credits you have earned and the type of degree you are pursuing determines your salary. See Handout below along with the following LINK.
