Physical Scientist – HAFS Developer

🕒 May 13

🦀 Maryland – Remote

🦀 Maryland – Remote

💵 $80k - $120k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

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Lynker

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2007

🔬 Science

Science • Engineering • Environmental Policy & Compliance

Lynker is a premier science, engineering, and technology company that specializes in providing innovative solutions in weather and climate science, marine/ocean science and engineering, and space weather and space climate. The company partners with governments, communities, and industries to deliver impactful services that address global environmental security and economic prosperity. By leveraging a team of skilled scientists, engineers, and educators, Lynker tackles some of the nation’s most important missions and challenges, while also focusing on training, communications, and outreach for effective environmental policy and compliance.

📋 Description

• The Physical Scientist - HAFS Developer will perform the job duties in a high-quality, independent, and collaborative way, assisting in managing projects and developing and applying innovative methods for the primary work areas. • The candidate will work with NOAA scientists and external collaborators to develop and evaluate the current and future operational hurricane forecast systems, as well as to design, develop and evaluate HAFS ensemble analysis and forecast for downstream applications. • The candidate will work with advanced UFS infrastructure and multi-scale modeling framework, improving hurricane specific physics, data assimilation, dynamics, and high-resolution telescoping and moving nest techniques. • Detailed responsibilities will include at least two aspects or more of the following areas: • Implement and advance hurricane-specific physics schemes within the UFS framework. • Develop and advance inner-core storm initialization and data assimilation techniques for hurricane forecasting. • Develop and improve UFS-based dynamics and moving-nesting for high-resolution hurricane modeling. • Develop and advance UFS-based earth system (atmosphere, land, ocean, wave, storm surge, etc.) coupled modeling system for hurricane forecasting. • Develop advanced scripts for flexible end-to-end system integration and automation, and allow for additional functionalities. • Design, setup, and conduct pre-implementation tests for experimental and operational hurricane model upgrades. • Explore, develop, test and evaluate the HAFS based ensemble forecast system.

🎯 Requirements

• A Master’s Degree or higher in atmospheric sciences or meteorology, oceanic, mathematics, or related physical science • 2+ years of experience in the area of hurricane and tropical cyclone (TC) modeling. • Advanced knowledge of tropical meteorology and experience in developing hurricane numerical weather prediction (NWP) systems for operational implementation. • Excellent knowledge and skills of modern programming languages and object-oriented languages, such as FORTRAN90 and Python. • Skills and knowledge of the High Performing Computing environment. • Proficient with modern software development practices and version control software. • Demonstrated skill in communicating effectively with scientists of diverse backgrounds on technical details of the work plan and present results accurately and clearly in both oral and written form. • Ability to work independently on complex problems in a team and fast-paced environment and demonstrated skill in performing tasks requiring organization and attention to detail. • Ability to support team initiatives, demonstrate respect for team members, and seek team consensus • Familiarity with operational NWP and/or an operational forecasting environment. • Experience with UFS applications and knowledge of earth system modeling. • Experience in high-resolution model development in various infrastructures (ESMF, FMS, CCPP, JEDI, etc.). • Familiarity with advanced TC data assimilation systems/algorithms. • Experience/knowledge of hurricane model evaluation and verification. • Familiarity with agile software development practices.

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare for the employee at no monthly cost • Healthcare benefit covers medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision • Personal Time Off (PTO) Policy plus paid holidays • Highly competitive compensation plan regularly calibrated against industry and location benchmarks • 401(k) retirement plan with company-matching • Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) – we’re all company owners! • Flexible spending accounts • Employee assistance program (EAP) • Short- and long-term disability insurance • Life and accident insurance • Tuition assistance/Training/Workforce improvement reimbursement per year • Spot bonuses for exceptional performance • Annual Employee Recognition Awards with bonuses • Employee Referral Program • Free centralized, self-directed Learning Management System to learn at your own pace • Personalized career growth plans for every employee