Senior Wetland Scientist

🕒 July 31

⛰️ Colorado – Remote

⛰️ Colorado – Remote

💵 $90k - $120k / 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

• Mapping at scale: produce, improve, and maintain versioned wetland maps across large regional to national extents. • Cloud-native geospatial: build and run mapping and modeling workflows using cloud-native geospatial tools, formats, and storage. • Wetland modeling: implement, adapt, and improve existing and new models for wetland potential and for wetland boundary and extent. • Data integration: integrate LiDAR-derived elevation, hydrology, imagery, soils, and existing wetland inventories into reproducible modeling pipelines. • Validation & QA: design validation against reference data, quantify uncertainty, and quality-control wetland maps for accuracy and consistency. • Communication: document methods and results, contribute to reports and proposals, and partner with the Platform, Modeling, and Applications teams that scale and serve your products.

🎯 Requirements

• Master's or PhD in wetland science, ecology, geography, environmental or earth science, hydrology, or a related field, or equivalent experience. • Roughly 5+ years of relevant experience, or a PhD plus a few years of relevant work. • Demonstrated experience mapping wetlands, land cover, or comparable features at large spatial scale. • Hands-on experience with cloud-native geospatial tooling, formats, and workflows. • Experience implementing or adapting geospatial or ecological models (wetland potential, habitat, boundary and extent, or comparable). • Proficiency in Python and/or R for geospatial analysis, with sound coding and reproducibility 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