Tropical Meteorology Research Scientist at SAIC

%3Cp%3E%3Cspan style=%22font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18px;%22%3ESAIC is seeking a %3Cstrong%3ETropical Meteorology Research Scientist %3C/strong%3Eto join their team at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Marine Meteorology Division (MMD) in Monterey, CA. This position is 100% remote.%26nbsp;%3C/span%3E%3C/p%3E%3Cp%3E%3Cspan style=%22font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18px;%22%3E%3Cstrong%3EThe Tropical Meteorology Research Scientist will be responsible for but not limited to the following:%26nbsp;%3C/strong%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/p%3E%3Cul%3E%3Cli%3E%3Cp style=%22font-family:%26quot;Times New Roman%26quot;;font-size:12.0pt;margin:0in 0in 0in .2in;%22%3E%3Cspan style=%22font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18px;%22%3EMaintain real-time runs of the COAMPS-TC ensemble on DSRC computing resources.%3C/span%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/li%3E%3Cli%3E%3Cp style=%22font-family:%26quot;Times New Roman%26quot;;font-size:12.0pt;margin:0in 0in 0in .2in;%22%3E%3Cspan style=%22font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18px;%22%3EPerform model development activities for the COAMPS-TC ensemble, including:%3C/span%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/li%3E%3Cli%3E%3Cp style=%22font-family:%26quot;Times New Roman%26quot;;font-size:12.0pt;margin:0in 0in 0in .2in;%22%3E%3Cspan style=%22font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18px;%22%3EImprove the workflow of the COAMPS-TC ensemble.%3C/span%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/li%3E%3Cli%3E%3Cp style=%22font-family:%26quot;Times New Roman%26quot;;font-size:12.0pt;margin:0in 0in 0in .2in;%22%3E%3Cspan style=%22font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18px;%22%3EUpdate “base model” to incorporate v2025.deterministic COAMPS-TC configuration changes.%3C/span%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/li%3E%3Cli%3E%3Cp style=%22font-family:%26quot;Times New Roman%26quot;;font-size:12.0pt;margin:0in 0in 0in .2in;%22%3E%3Cspan style=%22font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18px;%22%3EInvestigate new approaches to generating initial-time synoptic-scale and vortex-scale perturbations.%3C/span%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/li%3E%3Cli%3E%3Cp style=%22font-family:%26quot;Times New Roman%26quot;;font-size:12.0pt;margin:0in 0in 0in .2in;%22%3E%3Cspan style=%22font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18px;%22%3EAssist FNMOC in their maintenance of the operational COAMPS-TC ensemble, and in their adoption of transitioned updates to the COAMPS-TC ensemble.%3C/span%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/li%3E%3Cli%3E%3Cp style=%22font-family:%26quot;Times New Roman%26quot;;font-size:12.0pt;margin:0in 0in 0in .2in;%22%3E%3Cspan style=%22font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18px;%22%3EAssist with the development and maintenance of deterministic COAMPS-TC capabilities.%3C/span%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/li%3E%3Cli%3E%3Cp style=%22font-family:%26quot;Times New Roman%26quot;;font-size:12.0pt;margin:0in 0in 0in .2in;%22%3E%3Cspan style=%22font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18px;%22%3EConduct COAMPS-TC ensemble and deterministic runs in support of an assessment regarding the risk of TC activity to U.S. military bases.%3C/span%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/li%3E%3Cli%3E%3Cp style=%22font-family:%26quot;Times New Roman%26quot;;font-size:12.0pt;margin:0in 0in 0in .2in;%22%3E%3Cspan style=%22font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18px;%22%3EProvide written material and figures for ONR program reviews and reports.%3C/span%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/li%3E%3C/ul%3E

Required Education:

• Bachelor's degree and zero (0) years’ experience; additional four (4) years’ experience can be considered in lieu of degree.

 

Required Clearance: 

• No security clearance needed; US Citizenship required.

• Must  complete a T3 investigation prior to start to allow access to government facilities and IT systems.

 

Required Skills: 

• Must have at a minimum of 3 years of demonstrated experience in tropical mesoscale NWP modeling and scripting for the management of job submission and data processing tasks, including error handling; provide recommendations to team lead for resolution of research issues related to mesoscale modeling problems; parallel processing computing experience.

• Must have demonstrable report writing experience.

• Must have demonstrable data processing experience.

 

Desired Skills:

• Experience with a combination of FORTRAN, Cylc, MATLAB, Python, or Shell Scripting programming languages.

• Experience publishing peer-reviewed scientific literature, software documentation, guidebooks, and/or handbooks.

• High Performance Computing (HPC) experience.

*!SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

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