Senior Water Resources Scientist

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⛰️ Colorado – Remote

⛰️ Colorado – Remote

💵 $100k - $135k / year

⏰ Full Time

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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

• Hydrography: contribute to the development, evaluation, and improvement of hydrography datasets and surface-water network representations. • Hydrologic modeling: build, calibrate, run, and evaluate hydrologic models, with emphasis on ecological flows and streamflow behavior. • Rules & decision logic: help design and refine the rules and analytical logic that translate data and model output into clear, defensible results. • Scientific coding: develop well-documented, reproducible scientific analysis, primarily in R. • Writing & communication: write clearly and rigorously for technical reports, publications, and proposals. • Technical leadership: set technical direction across workstreams, review and strengthen colleagues' work, and mentor team members as a senior collaborator across the Science, Modeling, and Platform teams.

🎯 Requirements

• PhD in watershed science, hydrology, water resources, environmental or earth science, or a closely related field; or a Master's plus substantial relevant experience (roughly 6+ years). • Demonstrated experience building, calibrating, running, and evaluating hydrologic models. • Strong scientific coding skills in R, with reproducible-research practices (e.g., Git, R Markdown, or Quarto). • Strong scientific writing ability, evidenced by a record of technical writing or peer-reviewed publication. • Ability to work independently and move fluidly across multiple concurrent workstreams. • Experience with hydrography datasets and surface-water network representation. • Experience with ecological flows and streamflow or performance-oriented flow modeling. • A strong peer-reviewed publication record. • A track record of successful proposal development and funding wins. • Familiarity with additional languages such as Python or JavaScript, and with geospatial and remote-sensing tooling.

🏖️ 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