[Hiring] Physical Scientist - HAFS Developer @Lynker Corporation

Role Description

Lynker is seeking a Physical Scientist - HAFS Developer to support a long-term NOAA contract, carrying out research and development work related to future operational hurricane forecast systems. The successful Physical Scientist - HAFS Developer will involve the development, testing, and evaluation of the Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System (HAFS), which is the Unified Forecast System’s (UFS) hurricane application, providing reliable, robust, and skillful model forecasts for tropical cyclones (TCs). This role is a future opportunity, and contingent on contract award.

Duties of the Physical Scientist - HAFS Developer will include the following:

• Perform job duties in a high-quality, independent, and collaborative way.
• Assist in managing projects and developing and applying innovative methods.
• Work with NOAA scientists and external collaborators to develop and evaluate operational hurricane forecast systems.
• Design, develop, and evaluate HAFS ensemble analysis and forecast for downstream applications.
• Work with advanced UFS infrastructure and multi-scale modeling framework.
• Improve hurricane-specific physics, data assimilation, dynamics, and high-resolution techniques.
• Implement and advance hurricane-specific physics schemes within the UFS framework.
• Develop and advance inner-core storm initialization and data assimilation techniques for hurricane forecasting.
• Develop and improve UFS-based dynamics and moving-nesting for high-resolution hurricane modeling.
• Develop and advance UFS-based earth system coupled modeling system for hurricane forecasting.
• Develop advanced scripts for flexible end-to-end system integration and automation.
• Design, setup, and conduct pre-implementation tests for experimental and operational hurricane model upgrades.
• Explore, develop, test, and evaluate the HAFS based ensemble forecast system.

Qualifications

• A Master’s Degree or higher in atmospheric sciences, meteorology, oceanic, mathematics, or related physical science.
• 2+ years of experience in hurricane and tropical cyclone (TC) modeling.
• Advanced knowledge of tropical meteorology and experience in developing hurricane numerical weather prediction (NWP) systems for operational implementation.
• Excellent knowledge and skills of modern programming languages and object-oriented languages, such as FORTRAN90 and Python.
• Skills and knowledge of the High Performing Computing environment.
• Proficient with modern software development practices and version control software.
• Demonstrated skill in communicating effectively with scientists of diverse backgrounds on technical details of the work plan.
• Ability to work independently on complex problems in a team and fast-paced environment.
• Ability to support team initiatives, demonstrate respect for team members, and seek team consensus.

Requirements

• Familiarity with operational NWP and/or an operational forecasting environment.
• Experience with UFS applications and knowledge of earth system modeling.
• Experience in high-resolution model development in various infrastructures (ESMF, FMS, CCPP, JEDI, etc.).
• Familiarity with advanced TC data assimilation systems/algorithms.
• Experience/knowledge of hurricane model evaluation and verification.
• Familiarity with agile software development 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.