Remote Agile PM for AI-Driven Weather Prediction

Creative Solutions Services, LLC; Silver Spring (MD); On-site; USD 100,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401K matching

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

IBSS Corp. seeks an Agile Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master to lead AI4NWP initiatives for NOAA\'s Modeling Moonshot. You will facilitate agile ceremonies, manage backlogs, track performance, and coordinate across data science, engineering, and operations teams.

The role emphasizes AI/ML lifecycle, MLOps, data provenance, and reproducible environments. Remote-friendly with a Public Trust eligible clearance and experience with GPU/HPC cost tracking.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree or accepted equivalent.
• 5–7 years of experience in the technical area being managed and 5+ years of IT management experience.
• Strong Agile facilitation, backlog/dependency management, risk escalation, reporting, coaching, and stakeholder-communication skills.
• Technical literacy sufficient to facilitate AI/ML lifecycle, MLOps, data provenance, verification, compute, and operationalization discussions.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Scrum Master/facilitator for AI4NWP teams; coordinate planning, refinement, experiment reviews, retrospectives, and technical syncs.
• Maintain backlog and evidence records for training-data provenance, model/code version, features/architecture, reproducible training configuration, and inference environment.
• Track compute cost, latency, benchmark sets, verification thresholds, bias/failure-mode analysis, cybersecurity/supply-chain dependencies, and rollback or hybrid fallback.
• Help teams decompose research objectives into bounded experiments and integration increments with explicit hypotheses, datasets, acceptance evidence, and next decisions.
• Coordinate dependencies on EVS verification, HPC/GPU capacity, shared datasets, MPAS/UFS interfaces, operational windows, and model-governance decisions.
• Maintain and elevate impediments, risks, actions, and decisions; connect cross-team items to the Integration Forum and program roadmap.
• Prepare iteration summaries and progress inputs that differentiate experimental learning, integrated capability, readiness movement, and operational acceptance.
• Coach teams in MLOps/DevSecOps practices, versioning, peer review, automated tests, reproducible environments, monitoring, and configuration management.
• Provide surge support to other focus areas and contribute to common facilitation, KPI, retrospective, and process-improvement practices.

Skills

Agile facilitation

Backlog management

Dependency management

Risk escalation

Stakeholder communication

AI/ML lifecycle

MLOps

Data provenance

Compute/configuration management

Education

BA/BS degree or equivalent

Job description

IBSS Corp. seeks an Agile Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master to lead AI4NWP initiatives for NOAA\'s Modeling Moonshot. You will facilitate agile ceremonies, manage backlogs, track performance, and coordinate across data science, engineering, and operations teams.

The role emphasizes AI/ML lifecycle, MLOps, data provenance, and reproducible environments. Remote-friendly with a Public Trust eligible clearance and experience with GPU/HPC cost tracking.