Remote Agile Scrum Master for AI Weather Modeling

IBSS; Silver Spring (MD); On-site; USD 100,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401K plan

Professional development reimbursement

Paid time off

Flex-Spending (FSA)

Job summary

IBSS Corp. is seeking an Agile Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master to lead AI4NWP teams focused on NOAA-related modeling initiatives. The role supports rapid experimentation, reproducible environments, and secure, evidence-based operational acceptance.

You will maintain model/data version visibility, track benchmarks, and coordinate between cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery and governance across MPAS/UFS interfaces and AI4NWP workstreams.

Qualifications

• 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 to facilitate AI/ML lifecycle, MLOps, data provenance, verification, compute, and operationalization discussions.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Scrum Master/facilitator for assigned 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.

Skills

Agile facilitation

Backlog management

Risk escalation

Stakeholder communication

Team coordination

Education

BA/BS degree or equivalent

Job description

IBSS Corp. is seeking an Agile Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master to lead AI4NWP teams focused on NOAA-related modeling initiatives. The role supports rapid experimentation, reproducible environments, and secure, evidence-based operational acceptance.

You will maintain model/data version visibility, track benchmarks, and coordinate between cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery and governance across MPAS/UFS interfaces and AI4NWP workstreams.