Meteorologist Developer
Careers Lynker, College Park, MD
The role
Overview
Lynker is expecting the need for a sharp and motivated Meteorologist Developer in the next 6 to 8 months, to support a long term contract with the NOAA and will have direct interaction with scientists within NOAA as well as partners outside of NOAA. This includes; NCEP centers, NWS weather forecast offices, NOAA research facilities, academia, and the NWS Science and Operations Officer community. In this capacity the incumbent will work with the above partners to develop and implement verification methods to gauge the effectiveness of new forecaster tools applied to operational and experimental forecasts.
The work will also strive to build the capacity to enhance impact decision support services (IDSS), effectively building a Weather Ready Nation.
In addition, the Meteorologist Developer will work to provide enhancements that build upon current forecaster tools as well as work to develop new services and forecaster tools. Promising work will be transitioned to operations. The incumbent will provide training materials on the enhanced forecaster products and tools.