Hybrid: Operational Wave & Surge Modeling Scientist

Lynker; College Park (MD); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

PTO & holidays

401(k) plan

ESOP

Tuition assistance

Bonus programs

Job summary

Lynker seeks a Support Scientist to accelerate operational wave and storm surge modeling for the National Weather Service. Hybrid work is required: 2 days/week at NCWCP College Park, MD, and 3 days remote.

Responsibilities include developing and testing physics-based, probabilistic, and ML surge/wave frameworks, integrating atmospheric forcing, and building web interfaces for model output. Ideal candidate has MS in a related field and 5+ years in weather/ocean science, with experience in HPC,

Qualifications

• MS in meteorology, physical oceanography, coastal engineering, or related field, with 5+ years in weather forecasting, physical oceanography, or coastal ocean science.
• Knowledge of spectral wave models (like WAVEWATCH III), particularly for real-time applications.
• Demonstrated experience with operational storm surge models (e.g., SLOSH, P-ETSS, P-Surge, SCHISM, and/or ADCIRC)
• Strong background in ensemble modeling, probabilistic output analysis, and real-time model merging and weighting techniques.
• Understanding of meteorological inputs and atmospheric forcing (e.g., NBM), with experience generating secondary fields (e.g., synthetic pressure fields from wind fields).
• Experience running numerical models on HPC platforms using PBS and Slurm for job submissions, and MPI or OpenMP for multi-processing.
• Advanced skills and knowledge of modern programming languages and object-oriented languages, such as Fortran 90, C/C++ and Python.
• Experience working in a UNIX environment with advanced shell scripting languages and familiar with running complex jobs.
• Demonstrated proficiency using GitHub to manage software repositories, code versions, and projects.
• Ability to maintain, visualize, and disseminate marine modeling output and web-based products.

Responsibilities

• Operational Modeling & System Integration: Develop, optimize, maintain, and integrate wave and storm surge modeling capabilities.
• Coastal Processes & Hazard Prediction: Advance numerical, statistical, and probabilistic formulations for coastal phenomena.
• Atmospheric Forcing & Diagnostics: Work with meteorological input datasets (e.g., NB M) and derive key diagnostics.
• Interagency & Sector Collaboration: Partner across federal/private sectors to evaluate external models and transition to operations.
• Model Experimentation & Validation: Design/execute numerical model experiments using Python-based verification and data-fusion.
• System Support & Web Interfaces: Maintain/visualize/disseminate marine modeling output via web interfaces.

Skills

Fortran 90

C/C++

Python

HPC

PBS/Slurm

MPI/OpenMP

UNIX shell

GitHub

Machine learning

Data visualization

Education

MS in meteorology/oceanography/coastal engineering

Tools

WAVEWATCH III

SLOSH

ADCIRC

SCHISM

P-ETSS

P-Surge

WCOSS

NCO

NBM

Job description

Lynker seeks a Support Scientist to accelerate operational wave and storm surge modeling for the National Weather Service. Hybrid work is required: 2 days/week at NCWCP College Park, MD, and 3 days remote.

Responsibilities include developing and testing physics-based, probabilistic, and ML surge/wave frameworks, integrating atmospheric forcing, and building web interfaces for model output. Ideal candidate has MS in a related field and 5+ years in weather/ocean science, with experience in HPC,