Senior Scientific Application Programmer – Warn-on-Forecast System Developer

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🦀 Maryland – Remote

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💵 $95k - $135k / year

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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

• Support the operational transition of WoFSv1 and the development of WoFSv2 in a cloud computing environment, focusing on scientific software development, workflow automation, system integration, testing, optimization, and operational implementation. • Develop, integrate, test, and optimize scientific software to support the operational transition of the cloud-based WoFSv1 system. • Design and maintain workflows that integrate model preprocessing, data assimilation, forecasting, post-processing, product generation, and visualization. • Implement, test, and optimize new scientific applications and forecast products for high-impact weather prediction. • Support the development, integration, and testing of the MPAS-JEDI-based WoFSv2 system. • Conduct verification, benchmarking, performance evaluation, and retrospective and real-time testing to ensure forecast skill, computational efficiency, and operational readiness. • Develop and maintain GitHub repositories, software documentation, and version-controlled code to support collaborative scientific software development.

🎯 Requirements

• M.S or higher in Atmospheric Science, Meteorology, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related field • Experience in software development, code management (e.g., GitHub), and integrating complex numerical modeling and data assimilation components • Experience in assimilating weather radar, satellite, conventional, mesonet and conventional observations with GSI or JEDI to improve initial conditions for rapid-fresh, convection-allowing ensemble short-range weather prediction systems is preferred • Knowledge of Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) modeling of convective and mesoscale meteorology, ensemble data assimilation, and atmospheric physics and dynamics • Experience in developing weather forecasting systems built on WRF and MPAS • Strong proficiency in Fortran and modern scripting languages, particularly Python (including scientific packages for AI/ML training and verification) • Experience in working within cloud High Performance Computing environments is highly desired • Excellent oral and written communication skills with a proven ability to work both independently and within a multi-disciplinary team

🏖️ 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