OverviewResponsibilities
Duties of the Senior Water Resources Scientist will include the following:
- Hydrography: contribute to the development, evaluation, and improvement of hydrography datasets and surface-water network representations.
- Hydrologic modeling: build, calibrate, run, and evaluate hydrologic models, with emphasis on ecological flows and streamflow behavior.
- Rules & decision logic: help design and refine the rules and analytical logic that translate data and model output into clear, defensible results.
- Scientific coding: develop well-documented, reproducible scientific analysis, primarily in R.
- Writing & communication: write clearly and rigorously for technical reports, publications, and proposals.
- Technical leadership: set technical direction across workstreams, review and strengthen colleagues' work, and mentor team members as a senior collaborator across the Science, Modeling, and Platform teams.
Qualifications
The Senior Water Resources Scientist selected should have the following:
- PhD in watershed science, hydrology, water resources, environmental or earth science, or a closely related field; or a Master's plus substantial relevant experience (roughly 6+ years).
- Demonstrated experience building, calibrating, running, and evaluating hydrologic models.
- Strong scientific coding skills in R, with reproducible-research practices (e.g., Git, R Markdown, or Quarto).
- Strong scientific writing ability, evidenced by a record of technical writing or peer-reviewed publication.
- Ability to work independently and move fluidly across multiple concurrent workstreams.
The Ideal Senior Water Resources Scientist will have the following:
- Experience with hydrography datasets and surface-water network representation.
- Experience with ecological flows and streamflow or performance-oriented flow modeling.
- A strong peer-reviewed publication record.
- A track record of successful proposal development and funding wins.
- Familiarity with additional languages such as Python or JavaScript, and with geospatial and remote-sensing tooling.
