Senior Climate Analytics Specialist

Title: Senior Climate Analytics Specialist

Preferred Locations: Salt Lake City UT New York City NY Crystal City VA

Are you ready to make a difference

ICF is seeking a Senior Climate Analytics Specialist with strong scientific programming and cloud-based big data experience to support our broad portfolio of work on climate risk and resilience. Our projects span across commercial clients and all levels of government enhancing the resilience of energy transportation and other critical infrastructure systems and the vital societal and natural elements that make our communities whole. Our climate risk analytics leverage rigorous science machine learning distributed computing and provide clear communication to enable proactive planning and implementation of resilience solutions.

The consultant chosen for this position will apply advanced analytics to the analysis and interpretation of weather and climate data contribute to the development of climate risk tools and products and support multi-disciplinary teams on multiple short- and long-term projects. This role is ideal for candidates interested in applying advanced analytics and machine learning to novel high-impact problems where traditional modeling approaches are insufficient and new methods must be developed.

The preferred locations for this position are Salt Lake City New York City or Crystal City VA.

Why you will love working here:

• Quality of life: Flexible workplace arrangements work-life balance

• Investment of the community: Donation matching volunteer opportunities

• Investment in you: Tuition reimbursement access to professional development resources 401kmatching Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• And many many more (Ask your recruiter for more details!)

What youll be doing

• Serve as a technical expert on multi-disciplinary teams focused on applied climate risk and resilience projects
• Use scientific programming cloud-based distributed computing and large-scale geospatial data processing to advance climate analytics and products
• Translate complex climate risk questions into tractable analytical and modeling frameworks selecting appropriate statistical machine learning and physics-informed approaches
• Design train and rigorously validate machine learning and statistical models in data-limited and non-stationary climate contexts
• Interface with clients on climate risk and resilience topics and prepare high-quality communication materials such as presentations and reports
• Complete tasks in fast-paced and self-motivated environment in a timely and efficient manner

What youll need to have

• Bachelors Degree in climate science atmospheric science Earth science data science meteorology or similar
• 5 years of relevant experience applying advanced analytics to climate geospatial or environmental data
• 2 years of experience with Python for processing and analyzing large multidimensional datasets (e.g. NetCDF Zarr) including use of Pangeo ecosystem tools such as Xarray and Dask
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing scalable cloud-based workflows for large geospatial and climate datasets including parallel processing memory-aware computation and reproducible pipelines (e.g. AWS SageMaker)
• Demonstrated experience applying machine learning and statistical models to climate science risk analysis or related topics using relevant Python packages (e.g. scikit-learn PyTorch etc.)

Our Preferred Skills/Experience

• Advanced degree in climate science atmospheric science Earth science data science meteorology or similar
• Ability to perform self-directed analytical work related to climate science topics and physical climate risk pertaining to energy systems transportation networks or other sectors
• Experience working with extreme events tail risks or rare-event modeling in environmental or geospatial contexts
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills; ability to communicate complex climate information to non-scientists to inform decision-making
• Experience working with and leading multi-disciplinary teams
• Organized detail oriented and the ability to prioritize and multi-task

Bot and Third-Party Applications

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Working at ICF

Pay Range - There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position including but not limited to relevant work experience skills certifications and competencies that align to the specified role geographic location education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position.

The pay range for this position based on full-time employment is: