Senior Emissions Engineer: Inventory & Modeling Automation

Bay Area Air District; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

The Bay Area Air District is seeking a Senior Air Quality Engineer to lead emissions data management and inventory activities within the AIM Division. You will develop estimates for complex sources, optimize data pipelines in SQL and R, and create visualization tools to support regulatory reporting and modeling efforts.

Ideal candidates bring strong analytics, cross‑functional collaboration, and experience with emissions inventory development and automation.

Qualifications

• Solid experience with emissions data management of pollutants and toxics.
• Strong data analysis, QA/QC automation, and visualization skills.
• Experience with GitHub, SQL Server, and Python/R tooling.

Responsibilities

• Develop emissions estimates for complex area source categories and annual reporting for facilities.
• Design, review, and enhance SQL and R scripts to automate QA/QC and streamline workflows.
• Integrate emissions estimates into local/regional air quality models for analysis.
• Modernize data processing, strengthen automated QA/QC, and build Power BI visualizations.
• Lead data management and inventory updates, coordinating with other divisions.

Skills

Emissions data management

Data analysis

QA automation

Visualization

GitHub

Python

R

Education

Bachelor's degree in environmental, chemical, mechanical or petroleum engineering

Two years of air quality engineering experience

Tools

GitHub

SQL Server

Power BI

Python

R

Job description

The Bay Area Air District is seeking a Senior Air Quality Engineer to lead emissions data management and inventory activities within the AIM Division. You will develop estimates for complex sources, optimize data pipelines in SQL and R, and create visualization tools to support regulatory reporting and modeling efforts.

Ideal candidates bring strong analytics, cross‑functional collaboration, and experience with emissions inventory development and automation.