About this opportunity
MPOWIR Mentoring Physical Oceanography Women to Increase Retention lists this Coastal Ocean Modeler – Jupiter opportunity in boulder, Colorado. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Coastal Ocean Modeler – Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography or related field. Experience with the Rutgers ROMS or Princeton’s POM. San Mateo, Boulder, or NY City
Jupiter provides data and analytics services to customers to better predict and manage risks from naturally occurring disasters and effects of climate change across the globe. Our company is comprised of a dynamic team of experienced executives, successful entrepreneurs, and world-class scientists and engineers. Together, we will help customers utilize Jupiter’s solutions in an effort to make the world a better, safer place. Salary commensurate with experience.
Jupiter seeks to fill a position with its FloodScore inland and coastal ocean modeling team. The Flood team focuses on developing high‑resolution, large-scale hydrodynamic and hydrology/hydraulic flood model applications using the FloodScore Operations Modeling System. The System is a next generation, physically‑based application that delivers hyperlocal probabilistic hydrodynamic forecasts over a five‑day horizon. The new hire would be part of the Flood team developing, refining, applying and analyzing results from the FloodScore modeling system.
Responsibilities
Contribute to building comprehensive hydrodynamic and hydraulic modeling systems for urban corridors worldwide
Find, curate, and adapt data sets from a variety of sources
Couple multi‑scale climate, weather, coastal and hydrologic models
Execute models efficiently, and ensure the results are sound
Calibrate and validate models as required
Contribute to reports and presentations
Pre‑process high‑resolution data including atmospheric and ocean data sets
Post‑process output from hydrodynamic models for input to other models
Travel Requirements: Occasional travel may be required
Qualifications
Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography or related field
Three to five years of experience in numerical modeling and/or data analysis
Experience with the Rutgers ROMS or Princeton’s POM, or similar wetting and drying coastal hydrody namic model
Knowledge of calibration and validation on coastal ocean and/or estuarine circulation models using rigorous statistical methodologies
Strong coding, debugging, and scientific visualization skills in FORTRAN, Python, or other similar languages in a Linux OS environment
Working knowledge of probability and statistics
Self‑motivated; able to work in a fast‑paced environment, and with other team members with different scientific and technical backgrounds
Strong oral and written communication skills
Knowledge of open‑source GIS software such as QGIS
Knowledge of commercial cloud computing environments
Experience working with one or more MPI stacks
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Worksite address
boulder, CO, 80301, US
Who can apply
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