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Senior Qualitative Researcher - Weather Forecasting
Overview Great forecasts don't help anyone if people don't understand or trust them. As FWI's Social Science Research and Testbed Support Specialist supporting NSSL, you will design and lead qualitative and mixed-methods research — interviews, focus groups, surveys — to evaluate how forecasters, eme
Senior Qualitative Researcher - Weather Forecasting
Weather Forecast Modeling Scientist
Overview MPAS-JEDI is the backbone of NSSL's next-generation convective-scale modeling and data assimilation work — and it needs someone who can keep the software, the science, and the HPC infrastructure all moving together. As FWI's MPAS-JEDI Systems and Convective-Scale Modeling Specialist, you wi
Field Systems Engineer - Severe Weather Research
Overview As an Observing Systems Engineer for FWI supporting NSSL's VORTEX-USA program in Norman, Oklahoma, you will lead the testing, integration, maintenance, and deployment of stereo photogrammetry systems and related instrumentation on NSSL's fixed and mobile observation platforms. Your work — t
Field Systems Engineer - Severe Weather Research
Radar Systems Engineer - Severe Weather Research
Overview PodRad is a new breed of radar — low-power, low-cost, vertically pointing FM-CW systems designed to capture first-of-their-kind measurements of vertical velocities inside tornadoes, supercells, and other hazardous storms. As FWI's PodRad Developer supporting NSSL, you'll provide the hardwar
Radar Systems Engineer - Severe Weather Research
Satellite Data Assimilation and Fire Weather Modeling Specialist (Scientist IV)
Overview As wildfires increasingly reshape the weather around them, NOAA needs modeling systems that can keep up. As FWI's Satellite Data Assimilation and Fire Weather Modeling Specialist supporting NSSL's Warn-on-Forecast (WoFS) initiative, you will develop and advance convective- and meso-scale at
Probabilistic Hazard Information (PHI) and AI/ML Research Specialist (Subject Matter Expert II)
Overview Rapidly updating, probabilistic severe weather guidance is only as good as the science and technology behind it. As FWI's PHI and AI/ML Research Specialist supporting NSSL, you will apply expert, highly specialized knowledge to advance Probabilistic Hazard Information (PHI) systems by integ
Probabilistic Hazard Information (PHI) and AI/ML Research Specialist (Subject Matter Expert II)
Senior C ++ Software Engineer
Overview MRMS — Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor — is one of the National Weather Service's core operational products for precipitation estimation, and it's built on code that never stops improving. As FWI's MRMS Hydromet Development Advisor supporting NSSL, you will apply specialized technical expertise to
Budget Support Specialist
Overview Are you a detail-oriented financial professional looking to make a meaningful impact in support of federal law enforcement? This is your opportunity to play a critical role in the fiscal operations of one of the most prominent U.S. Attorney's Offices in the country. The Department of Justic
Senior Technical Writer
Overview Join our team as a Senior Technical Writer and support the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) by producing and maintaining accurate product purchase descriptions for hardware, security containers, and hazardous materials items for GSA's General Products and Security Branch. You will
Technical Editor/Writer
Overview Help shape how the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) communicates with Congress and preserves its own history. As a Technical Editor/Writer, you'll polish the notifications and briefing materials that go to U.S. Legislative Staff one day, then dig into archives and historical narratives bou
Staff Officer - Mission Support Task Manager
Overview Play a vital role in supporting critical national security operations by joining our team in Arlington as an Administrative Assistant/Staff Officer. In this position, you will apply your exceptional organizational and communication skills to monitor and manage end-to-end tasking workflows,
Transcriptionist
Overview Do you have a commitment to protecting our national security and enshrining governmental integrity? Do you want to contribute to the government's efforts documenting legally binding conversations? Then apply now to be a part-time transcriptionist on a variety of Federal transcription contra
OAR Chief of Staff Program Coordinator (SME I)
Overview You are someone who thrives in the fast-moving center of a major federal science agency — someone who can synthesize a 50-page research portfolio into a crisp two-page brief for the NOAA Administrator, keep track of a dozen competing priorities across OAR headquarters, and make sure that no
OAR Chief of Staff Program Coordinator (SME I)
Senior OAR Science Communications Specialist (SME II)
Overview NOAA Research is one of the most consequential science agencies in the federal government — advancing the forecasts that save lives, the data that informs climate policy, and the understanding of Earth systems that shapes decisions for generations. But great science only creates impact when
Scientific & Technical Editor (Technical Writer/Editor II)
Overview You are the person who reads a 40-page technical report and immediately sees both the science and the story — and knows exactly how to make the writing do justice to both. As a Scientific & Technical Editor supporting NOAA's Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), you will serve as the qual
HR Programs & Workforce Analytics Specialist (Subject Matter Expert I)
Overview You know that a federal agency's most critical resource is its people — and you have the HR expertise and analytical instincts to help leadership make smarter, faster decisions about them. You're the kind of professional who can walk a supervisor through a complex personnel action in the mo
HR Programs & Workforce Analytics Specialist (Subject Matter Expert I)
Cooperative Institute Financial & Program Analyst (SME I)
Overview You are someone who can navigate a complex federal grants portfolio with the same confidence you bring to building a financial tracking dashboard from scratch. You understand that behind every NOAA research breakthrough is a funding stream that needs to be monitored, reconciled, and reporte
OAR Science Communications Specialist
Overview NOAA Research is one of the most consequential science agencies in the federal government — advancing the forecasts that save lives, the data that informs climate policy, and the understanding of Earth systems that shapes decisions for generations. But great science only creates impact when
Science Content & Digital Media Specialist (SME I)
Overview You are the kind of communicator who finds a hurricane forecast just as compelling as a viral social post — because you understand that both are stories, and both matter. As a Science Content & Digital Media Specialist supporting NOAA's Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), you will be em
Senior Science Content & Digital Media Specialist (SME II)
Overview You are the kind of communicator who finds a hurricane forecast just as compelling as a viral social post — because you understand that both are stories, and both matter. As a Science Content & Digital Media Specialist supporting NOAA's Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), you will be em