Scientist, Plume Modeling and Forecasting

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🔥 17 hours ago

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $130k - $160k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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Reflective

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1 - 10 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Reflective is a philanthropically-funded initiative aimed at equipping the world with data and tools necessary for informed decision-making regarding sunlight reflection. With a mission to accelerate responsible research in sunlight reflection, Reflective acknowledges the critical role this research plays in addressing climate change impacts. The organization emphasizes transparency, collaboration, and objectivity in its work, focusing on developing a knowledge base and technological advancements for scientifically-informed decisions about potential implementation.

📋 Description

• Lead plume forecasting for balloon-based tracer campaigns with external partners • Develop and evaluate plume forecasting capabilities over 24- to 72-hour horizons • Quantify forecast uncertainty and its implications for search patterns and instrument settings • Translate forecast results into observing-team requirements, including viewing geometry, altitude, timing, and plume extent • Model detailed plume evolution for numerical experiments testing observing suites and sampling cadences • Verify forecasts against tracer-campaign observations and report failures • Own plume-scale large-eddy and plume-resolving simulations from release through dispersion • Convert plume-scale results into dilution rates, effective source terms, and parameterizations for the global framework • Serve as the experiment team’s point of contact for plume-scale questions • If a field study proceeds, serve as mission scientist with real-time forecast updates, go/no-go input, and sampling direction

🎯 Requirements

• PhD in atmospheric science, fluid dynamics, or a closely related field, or equivalent research experience • Experience running high-resolution or large-eddy simulations of dispersing material and comparing them against measurements • Hands-on forecasting or mission-science experience on an airborne or balloon field campaign • Comfortable in Python and, ideally, Fortran on high-performance computing systems • Ability to clearly state what a model result does and does not support and document it for others • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Proven track record working well across disciplines and with external partners • Passion for Reflective’s mission • Experience with JAX or other differentiable modeling frameworks strongly preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision insurance • 401(k) • Professional and personal development • Generous paid time off and sick leave, including 12 weeks paid parental leave • Flexible working hours • Moving stipend to support candidates who relocate to the Bay Area • Professional learning and training opportunities