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Senior Scientist – Air Quality Modeling
Location
California
Posted
3 hours ago
Salary
$116K - $138K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Scientist – Air Quality Modeling
PSE Healthy Energy
• Contribute to developing and advancing a strategic research portfolio in air quality, identifying emerging opportunities and supporting high-impact workstreams. • Lead proposal development as technical lead and coordinate competitive grant and contract proposals. • Serve as PI on funded projects, holding accountability for scientific scope, budgets, deliverables, and funder reporting. • Oversee the design, development, and maintenance of scalable scientific tools, products, and cloud-based data pipelines on AWS to support research production and reproducibility. • Lead and contribute to peer-reviewed publications, technical reports, and rapid-response analyses; communicate findings to policymakers, community organizations, agencies, and the media. • Directly supervise staff through regular check-ins, performance reviews, and active mentorship; support hiring and onboarding as the team grows. • Lead or co-lead proposals for major grants and contracts and participate in funder stewardship. • Represent PSE externally as a recognized air quality expert through publications, media engagement, conference presentations, expert testimony, and regulatory advisory processes. • Manage day-to-day project operations, including budget and timeline tracking, deliverable coordination, timesheet approval, expense tracking, and funder reporting. • Serve as primary supervisor for EM&E Branch staff, including lower-level supervisors.
Job Requirements
- Ph.D. in atmospheric science, chemistry, engineering, or a related field (or Master’s degree with substantial equivalent experience) and a recognized record in air quality science.
- Senior Scientist I: Minimum 3+ years post-doctoral (or equivalent) experience.
- Senior Scientist II: Minimum 5+ years post-doctoral (or equivalent) experience with demonstrated strategic leadership and independence.
- Record of leading funded research as PI or co-PI, including peer-reviewed publications and/or expert testimony.
- Proven experience at the science-policy interface with regulators, policymakers, and/or community stakeholders.
- Deep expertise in air quality modeling (e.g., CMAQ, CAMx, WRF-Chem, GEOS-Chem, InMAP, AERMOD).
- Experience with emissions inventory tools (e.g., SMOKE) and processing large environmental datasets.
- Experience building and managing high-performance computing workloads on AWS (EC2, S3, ParallelCluster, AMIs).
- Proficiency in Python and/or R for data analysis and workflow automation; comfort with Git/GitHub and AI-assisted coding tools.
- Experience supervising staff with a demonstrated ability to support performance, development, and well-being.
- Senior Scientist II candidates must have a track record of supervising staff across multiple career levels.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to thrive in a collaborative, distributed, remote-first environment.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k) with employer match
- Flexible spending accounts
- Flexible time off and 15 Paid holidays
- Opportunities for continued education and training
- Flexible working hours and remote work options
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