Ionospheric Scientist – Modeling Lead

🕒 August 4

⛰️ Colorado – Remote

⛰️ Colorado – Remote

💵 $95k - $140k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Lynker

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2007

💼 Consulting

🔬 Science

Consulting • Science • Engineering

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

• Advance predictive ionosphere and atmosphere models for space weather forecasting affecting communications, navigation, and satellite drag • Engage with the scientific and space weather user community to identify modeling innovations beneficial to forecasters and customers • Assess and validate models and applications to establish SWPC priorities • Guide transition of high-priority models from research into space weather forecasting operations • Ensure scientific validation, documentation, and software infrastructure requirements are met • Pursue external research capabilities involving new models, observations, and innovations • Present results through internal reports, professional meetings, publications, and conferences • Manage and coordinate the ionospheric modeling group at SWPC • Coordinate model development activities across multiple agencies and guide research priorities

🎯 Requirements

• Ideally have a Ph.D. from an accredited institution in Physical Sciences, Atmospheric Science, Space Physics, Engineering, or a related field • At least five years of experience in research or operational forecasting • Thorough understanding of ionosphere and thermosphere physics and chemistry • Knowledge of space weather physical processes, including solar-wind interaction with Earth’s magnetosphere • Expertise in ionosphere and thermosphere modeling • Scientific programming skills, particularly Fortran and Python • Skills and experience in physical-model analysis and validation using satellite and ground-based data • Knowledge of and experience with the WAM-IPE model or other physics-based ionosphere-thermosphere models • Demonstrated ability to manage and coordinate a small team of scientists • Ability to work in a mission-focused operational environment • Ability to think critically and make independent decisions • Ability to work well in a team • Strong written and oral communication skills • Ideally familiarity with space-weather impacts on radio communications, satellite navigation, or satellite drag • Ideally familiarity with lower-atmosphere impacts on space weather • Ideally experience with data assimilation methodology • Ideally familiarity with GitLab and Docker • Ideally experience with parallel programming/computing and high-performance computing • Ideally experience developing visualizations of scientific datasets • Lynker is an E-Verify employer

🏖️ 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) • 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 • Personalized career growth plans for every employee