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With a commitment to excellence and a passion for innovation, Lynker leverages cutting-edge technologies and scientific expertise to support the creation and delivery of improved operational weather forecasts. As part of our ongoing growth and expansion, we are seeking a dynamic and experienced Environmental Data Scientist to join our growing team.\nResponsibilities\nDuties of the Environmental Data Scientist will include the following:\nData organization: organize, catalog, and structure heterogeneous environmental and geospatial datasets using consistent metadata and controlled vocabularies, with clear provenance, so they can be combined consistently and reproducibly.\nAnalytical logic: help define how rules and analytical logic are represented, versioned, and evaluated against layered datasets, with traceable analytical lineage from inputs to results.\nData product design: define what analytical inputs and outputs should contain, including data, results, and metadata, the schemas that represent them, and how those schemas evolve over time.\nDomain reasoning: bring environmental and hydrologic domain knowledge to bear on how data is weighted, interpreted, and encoded into rules.\nValidation & QA: develop checks, test cases, and validation logic to confirm that rules produce correct, explainable, and consistent results.\nDocumentation & collaboration: document data schemas, analytical logic, and data sources; collaborate across the Science, Engineering, and Platform teams to keep the system understandable, accessible, and maintainable.\nQualifications\nThe Environmental Data Scientist selected should have the following:\nMaster's in environmental science, ecosystem science, water resources, hydrology, earth science, environmental data science, or a related field; or a Bachelor's plus 2 years applying data science to environmental problems; or equivalent hands-on experience.\nStrong environmental and data science background, with the ability to reason about how environmental evidence should be represented and combined.\nProficiency in a data science language such as R or Python for data wrangling, analysis, and modeling.\nA working sense of geospatial data science, including experience with GIS tooling and spatial datasets (e.g., R, ArcGIS, QGIS, Google Earth Engine).\nComfort thinking structurally about data schemas, inputs, and outputs, and translating domain logic into clear, testable rules.\nStrong technical and scientific writing skills.\nThe Ideal Environmental Data Scientist will have the following:\nExperience designing data schemas, structured formats, or APIs, and defining inputs and outputs for downstream consumers.\nFamiliarity with rules-based or decision-support systems and how to make their logic transparent and explainable.\nExperience integrating multiple public and agency data sources (e.g., USGS, NOAA, PRISM) for watershed or environmental analysis.\nExposure to machine learning or statistical modeling applied to environmental data.\nTrack record of scientific writing, publication, or open-source contribution.\nColorado Front Range presence for periodic in-person collaboration.\nAbout Lynker\nLynker is a growing, employee owned business, specializing in professional, scientific and technical services. Our continually expanding team combines scientific expertise with mature, results-driven processes and tools to achieve technically sound, cost effective solutions in hydrology/water sciences, geospatial analysis, information technology, resource management, conservation, and management and business process improvement.\nWe focus on putting the right people in the right place to be effective. And having the right people is critical for success. Our streamlined organization enables and empowers our talented professionals to tackle our customers' scientific and technical priorities - creatively and effectively.\nLynker offers a team-oriented work environment, and the opportunity to work in a culture of exceptionally skilled professionals who embrace sound science and creative solutions. Lynker's benefits include the following:\nComprehensive healthcare for the employee at no monthly cost\nHealthcare benefit covers medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision\nPersonal Time Off (PTO) Policy plus paid holidays\nHighly competitive compensation plan regularly calibrated against industry and location benchmarks\n401(k) retirement plan with company-matching\nEmployee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) - we're all company owners!\nFlexible spending accounts\nEmployee assistance program (EAP)\nShort- and long-term disability insurance\nLife and accident insurance\nTuition assistance/Training/Workforce improvement reimbursement per year\nSpot bonuses for exceptional performance\nAnnual Employee Recognition Awards with bonuses\nEmployee Referral Program\nFree centralized, self-directed Learning Management System to learn at your own pace\nPersonalized career growth plans for every employee\nLynker is an E-Verify employer.\nLynker is an equal opportunity employer and makes all employment decisions based on merit, qualifications, and business needs. 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