Are you interested in joining a vibrant software technology organization that is expanding and emerging as a leader in the field of data visualization? We’d like to hear from you!

Contact us at cattlab-jobs@umd.edu.

The Center for Advanced Transportation Technology (CATT) Laboratory is the industry leader for transportation information analysis, visualization, and user interface design. We provide cutting-edge analytics products and an integrated product suite of situational awareness tools for transportation practitioners. These products and services are rapidly changing the way governments operate and make decisions.

We receive hundreds of gigabytes of transportation data daily making our petabytes of archived data likely the largest collection of traffic data in the world. Our clients use our software to analyze that data to generate valuable insights. Our work saves taxpayer money, improves the environment, and saves lives!

We’re as passionate about transportation as we are about building great software. We care about building usable, stable, and secure software to analyze massive amounts of data. We use cutting-edge tech to build and maintain our software. We have a mature development process and use industry best practices to build the best software possible. Our team is composed of developers, analysts, testers, UX designers, data scientists, and customer support operating in an Agile environment.

Our office is in College Park near the University of Maryland, easily accessible by DC Metro, MARC train, bus, car, and bike. Local employees are welcome to work from the office or other locations with a flexible schedule around our core hours. We also have many employees who are fully remote and work from different states. UMD requires all employees to live in the US.

We believe varied perspectives build better products, are proud to have a diverse team, and encourage people of all backgrounds to apply.

Benefits

As a CATT Lab team member, you will receive the same benefits of a University of Maryland Faculty member which include:

  • Choice of 403(b) with 7.25% employer contribution immediately vested, or state pension defined-benefit system

  • Medical, dental, and vision

  • Significant leave policy including:

    • 22 days of annual leave
    • 3 days of personal leave
    • 15 designated holidays
    • 15 sick days per year
    • Parental Leave

  • You’ll get a chance to work on solving real-world problems that affect every member of society and government

  • Your work will have immediate impacts on safety, mobility, and government spending/decision making

  • Opportunities to lead / make important decisions at all levels of the organization (if so inclined)
  • You’ll have opportunities to work with interesting and diverse data sources in the public safety and transportation domains
  • The ability to influence our strategic direction, technical solutions, and other aspects of our work

  • Your choice to work from anywhere in the United States (so long as you have solid internet) or work in an open office setting on a University Campus

  • Tuition Remission program for employees, spouses, and dependent children

  • Free travel to conferences, professional development, and/or training opportunities, if desired

  • Opportunities to work with (or mentor) students, if desired

  • Exposure to cutting edge University of Maryland research, hardware, and tools in many domains beyond transportation
  • The opportunity to work on analogous big-data and analytics problems in adjacent domains

Full-time Professional Positions

Data Engineer

Design, develop, deploy, and manage data storage and processing solutions. Develop data models and schemas for new data sources for both relational and non-relational distributed platforms. Write and maintain data pipelines to ingest large datasets from APIs and cloud storage to local storage instances. Write data retrieval, statistical calculation, and geospatial analysis queries and stored procedures. Assist with analysis and discovery of new datasets for integration into existing internal platforms. Work with application developers to debug and tune queries for performance. Estimate effort for work tasks and report on work progress to technical team lead. Participate in our Tier II Support team rotation.
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Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Perform code reviews to ensure code modifications from other developers are free of bugs and follow the Lab’s coding standards. Manually test web application user interfaces and application programming interfaces, find bugs, report them, and track resolution. Develop and create test plans based on functional requirements and user interface specifications. Implement automated web application tests using Cypress. Implement automation of REST APIs test cases using Postman, RestAssured, and Karate. Prepare and publish test results and reports using Jira and Confluence. Collaborate with a cross-functional team including software developers, database administrators, user interface designers, server administrators, and managers to resolve issues.
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Undergraduate and Graduate Internships

CATT Lab interns are paid employees who work on professional production systems. Our interns have gone on to work for major companies like Apple and IBM and government agencies like NASA.

You must be available to intern with us for one full year or longer (i.e. your graduation date should be a year or more away), and ready to work 10–20 hours per week during spring and fall semesters, and full-time over the summer. Many students work in our lab until they graduate, and after graduation, some continue directly into professional careers at the CATT Lab.

For information, or to apply, go to Careers4Terps and search for CATT Lab.

For all other employment inquiries or to apply, contact us at cattlab-jobs@umd.edu.