Lynker

Security Operations

• The Senior Director, Corporate IT & Cybersecurity Operations serves as Lynker Corporation's senior-most functional leader for enterprise information technology infrastructure, cybersecurity, and technology governance.
• This position is integral to the Company's ability to operate as a compliant, resilient, and mission-capable Government contractor across civilian, defense, and national security markets.
• The incumbent owns the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of IT and cybersecurity programs aligned to CMMC 2.0, CMMI, FAR, and DFARS requirements, and is accountable for the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Lynker's enterprise systems.
• The role carries direct ownership of business continuity and Continuity of Operations (COOP) planning, Decision Analysis Report (DAR) governance for internal systems, enterprise systems implementation lifecycle management, mandatory compliance training administration, and IT-related onboarding/offboarding artifact control.
• The Senior Director partners with Human Resources, Contracts, Finance, Quality Assurance, and Executive Leadership to ensure that technology strategy, risk posture, and regulatory obligations remain fully aligned as Lynker expands its footprint into Department of Defense (DoD) and national security work.
• Prior experience support a Government Contracting Organization or a Government Agency a plus. Prior Military service highly desired.

Senior Director – Enterprise IT, Cybersecurity Operations

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Preparing and maintaining spreadsheet reports by extracting, compiling, and analyzing data
• Providing accounting, bookkeeping, and budgeting services
• Preparing cost adjustments and spend plans for Resource Review meetings
• Preparing Summary Level and detail cost adjustments for Government approval
• Populating Budget Operating Plans in BAS and FMDS
• Preparing Statements of Work (SOWs), Performance Work Statements (PWSs), and technical specifications
• Processing Interagency Agreements (IAAs) and Memoranda of Understanding/Agreement (MOUs/MOAs)
• Performing data entry within G-Invoicing and other procurement systems
• Developing and maintaining milestone schedules for procurement actions

Budget, Finance, Procurement Support

Project Manager

• Inter-agency Coordination: Planning and coordinating between NOPP and ONR representatives, including managing Inter-agency Agreement (IAA) drafts and facilitating and planning monthly Inter-agency Work Group (IWG) meetings, to include the preparation of meeting agendas and minutes, to ensure cross-agency strategic alignment.
• Financial and Spend Planning: Coordinating with the OER Administration and Finance Division to document project funding transfers and formulating the annual NOPP spend plan to ensure fiscal alignment.
• Reporting and Outreach: Coordinating the development of the NOPP Annual Report and executing outreach initiatives to expand program visibility; and briefing leadership on inter-agency coordination status during monthly internal OER-NOPP meetings.
• Programmatic Services: Coordinating with the NOAA science programs and laboratories for options and funding opportunities

Project Management Support

Learning and Development

• Provide instructional and design leadership for national educator Professional Development (PD)
• effort, including program/presentation design, agendas, content, and videos
• Work with a network of Professional Development Facilitators
• Maintain and train a network of internal and external workshop facilitators
• Serve as the Alliance Partner site coordinator liaison
• Regularly present workshops and promote offerings
• Oversee advertising and guides PD evaluation(s) and summative workshop evaluations
• Manage Professional Development Workshops for educators
• Collaborate with NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research to provide project coordination

Professional Development – Outreach Training

Growth Marketing

• Establish and maintain a storage management system for education content
• Plan and coordinate the development of education products
• Develop brand identity and graphic design for educational materials
• Execute translations for education and outreach products
• Analyze educator needs and develop education strategies
• Coordinate promotion strategy for sharing expedition updates
• Plan and execute educational outreach material development
• Provide education coverage for ocean exploration events

Education/Outreach Product Development, Strategy, Programmatic Growth Support

Machine Learning Engineer

• The Machine Learning Engineer will perform their job duties to a high standard, working both independently and collaboratively.
• The core responsibility is to assist in the development, implementation, testing, and evaluation of an AI-based Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis (AI-RTMA) system in support of NOAA’s National Blend of Models (NBM).
• The AI-RTMA system will generate high spatial and temporal resolution analyses of meteorological variables to reduce biases in the NBM fields.
• Conduct a comprehensive review of state-of-the-art AI-based data assimilation and end-to-end weather forecasting methodologies, systems, and frameworks.
• Communicate findings with EMC scientists and external partners to inform the development of a scientifically robust and efficient AI-RTMA approach.
• Collaborate with NOAA’s NBM team and key stakeholders to define product requirements for AI-RTMA, including domain configuration, grid structure, output variables, spatial and temporal resolution, and data formats suitable for operational evaluation and transition.
• Design, implement, and maintain robust data pipelines to support AI-RTMA training, validation, testing, and evaluation. This includes collecting, formatting, quality-controlling, and integrating diverse observational datasets (e.g., conventional observations, satellite, radar, and other sources), as well as preparing model inputs, targets, metadata, and training/validation splits.
• Develop, train, rigorously test, and deploy a fully functional AI-RTMA system based on selected AI frameworks or architectures.
• Implement cross-validation and other evaluation methodologies to quantify model performance and reliability during inference.

Software Engineer

• Support the operational transition of WoFSv1 and the development of WoFSv2 in a cloud computing environment, focusing on scientific software development, workflow automation, system integration, testing, optimization, and operational implementation.
• Develop, integrate, test, and optimize scientific software to support the operational transition of the cloud-based WoFSv1 system.
• Design and maintain workflows that integrate model preprocessing, data assimilation, forecasting, post-processing, product generation, and visualization.
• Implement, test, and optimize new scientific applications and forecast products for high-impact weather prediction.
• Support the development, integration, and testing of the MPAS-JEDI-based WoFSv2 system.
• Conduct verification, benchmarking, performance evaluation, and retrospective and real-time testing to ensure forecast skill, computational efficiency, and operational readiness.
• Develop and maintain GitHub repositories, software documentation, and version-controlled code to support collaborative scientific software development.

Senior Scientific Application Programmer – Warn-on-Forecast System Developer

General

• Provide biological sampling from the recreational head boat fishery in the Southeastern United States from North Carolina to Texas
• Serve as the NOAA Fisheries field representative with head boat owners, operators, and anglers in the assigned sampling area
• Identify and enumerate individual fish to the species level from landed catches
• Collect length measurements and record weights and sex from individual fish in accordance with sampling protocols and goals
• Collect fish otoliths and spines in accordance with sampling protocols and goals
• Enter, check, validate, and quality control data daily
• Provide data to appropriate researchers at the direction of the Chief, Catch Validation and Biosampling Branch
• Process, perform QA/QC, and analyze biological samples collected during sampling operations
• Upload biological samples to the Oracle system by the 15th of each month for the previous month
• Mail otoliths and spines to the Beaufort Laboratory by the 30th of the following month
• Use custom data entry applications and database software such as Microsoft Excel, Oracle, and Access to summarize data and provide results
• Review daily Trip Reports to identify errors and inconsistencies for vessels in the area of responsibility
• Review dockside sample data for accuracy and submit to the Oracle system within seven days of the date sampled
• Assist FSD staff with collection, data entry, and processing of fishery-dependent and fishery-independent data as needed
• Participate in weekly and quarterly administrative calls and respond to unscheduled calls or emails
• Submit Weekly Activity Reports documenting work completed
• Conduct regular checks, maintenance, and precautions to ensure government equipment remains in good working order
• Assist with vessel reporting compliance, including contacting captains or vessel staff for missing Trip Reports
• Update and submit Head Boat Activity Reports weekly in accordance with protocols
• Participate in surveys and related research projects in the field and laboratory
• Participate in public outreach efforts, including meeting with fishermen and participating in public events to educate the public about SRHS and fisheries management in the region
• Prepare for and present, facilitate, or participate in position-related workshops, scientific meetings, symposiums, and public forums, including stock assessment data workshops, Fishery Management Council meetings, and Port Agent Annual Meetings

Fisheries Dockside Sampler – Southeast Region Head Boat Survey

Data Analyst

• Provide administrative support to manage and analyze fishery-dependent data from the recreational head boat fishery in the Southeastern United States from North Carolina to Texas.
• Manage, organize, and maintain SRHS and NMFS databases to ensure proper functioning, data quality, and error correction.
• Enter and quality control data daily and provide weekly status reports.
• Process, perform QA/QC, and analyze biological samples collected during sampling operations.
• Perform QA/QC checks on otolith and spine collections in the Oracle system.
• Provide error reports to port agents for correction.
• Use custom data entry applications and database software such as Microsoft Excel, Oracle, and Access to summarize data and provide results.
• Organize and maintain bioprofile, logbook catch record, and head boat activity report databases.
• Compile dockside sampling data from head boat port agents in the South Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico.
• Maintain and develop quality assurance and quality control analyses and procedures for Head Boat Survey data.
• Compile and maintain vessel directory and contact information.
• Track vessel reporting compliance.
• Use SAS and/or R analytical software, Oracle, and relational databases to summarize landings and effort estimates, conduct data QA/QC, monitor compliance, and analyze sensitive data.
• Perform and assist with data analyses in support of data requests and general scientific inquiries.
• Perform data summaries and analyses in support of SEDAR activities.
• Assist with the annual report summarizing head boat survey data, including landings, effort, and impacts on the South Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico head boat fishery.
• Participate in special projects, including multidisciplinary collaborations within and outside the agency.
• Write scientific proposals to compete for extramural funding.
• Review reports, manuscripts, and scientific proposals.
• Assist FSD staff with fishery-dependent and fishery-independent data entry and processing as needed.
• Participate in public outreach efforts, including meeting with fishermen and participating in public events to educate the public about SRHS and fisheries management in the region.
• Prepare for and present, facilitate, or participate in position-related workshops, scientific meetings, symposiums, and public forums.

Fisheries Data Analyst – Southeast Region Head Boat Survey

Customer Support

• Assist with distribution, reception, and quality control of commercial fishermen’s logbooks required to be submitted to SEFSC for Highly Migratory Species and Coastal Fisheries
• Support logbooks and dealer reports from the wreckfish fishery
• Annually distribute logbooks via U.S. mail to permit holders, ensuring permit holders receive the correct logbook type and any required supplemental forms or notifications
• Travel locally via government vehicle to the post office to pick up incoming logbooks
• Process incoming logbooks, including stamping as received, organizing forms, and assigning schedule numbers
• Monitor a phone line each business day for permit holders with questions about the logbook process
• Respond to permit holder questions when appropriate or forward questions to upper-level staff
• Conduct data entry of various logbook and dealer reporting forms
• Validate various logbook and dealer reporting forms
• Participate in SEFSC-sponsored or participating outreach events, such as Open Houses and Youth/Career Fairs, to explain logbook program goals and methods to the public

Fisheries Monitoring Specialist – Commercial Logbook Support

• Distribute, receive, quality control, and finalize commercial fishermen’s logbooks submitted to SEFSC for Highly Migratory Species and Coastal Fisheries.
• Support testing and implementation of the SEFSC Fisheries Electronic Reporting System (FERS).
• Annually distribute logbooks via U.S. mail to permit holders, ensuring permit holders receive the correct logbook type and any required supplemental forms or notifications.
• Distribute logbooks to new permit holders as they enter the fishery.
• Travel locally via government vehicle to pick up incoming logbooks from the post office.
• Process incoming logbooks, including stamping as received, organizing forms, coding and assigning schedule numbers, checking for compliance issues, and preparing data for scanning.
• Correct validation errors through contact with permit holders by phone or mail, as appropriate.
• Monitor a phone line each business day for permit holders with questions about the logbook process.
• Respond to permit holder questions when appropriate or forward questions to upper-level staff.
• Generate FERS registration PINs and mail instructions to permit holders who request registration.
• Test new versions of the eTrips application to ensure each release works as intended.
• Assist SEFSC divisional staff with analysis and extraction of HMS and Coastal logbook data using SQL and standard statistical programs such as SAS or R.
• Query and analyze logbook data to investigate and develop quality control and validation processes for the electronic reporting process.
• Extract and summarize electronic reporting data for comparison to the standard reporting process and produce reports as required.
• Participate in SEFSC-sponsored or participating outreach events, including Open Houses and Youth/Career Fairs, to explain electronic logbook program goals and methods.
• Assist Government staff with electronic logbook processing training sessions for new hires.
• Prepare for and present, facilitate, or participate in electronic logbook reporting-related workshops, scientific and technological meetings, symposiums, and public forums.
• Present SEFSC electronic logbook reporting materials at Fishery Management Council meetings, ACCSP and GFIN working group meetings, HMS Advisory Panel meetings, and other assigned meetings.
• Attend conferences and symposia with sessions on electronic reporting, including presenting SEFSC information and attending relevant sessions.
• Submit required presentations and training materials for approval five days prior to public presentation, training, meetings, or conferences.
• Submit travel requests through the COR when travel is required.

Fishery Biologist II – Fisheries Electronic Reporting Support

Scientist

• Develop and manage passive acoustics research projects to collect and analyze acoustic data addressing marine mammal distribution, ecosystem ecology, and anthropogenic impact questions.
• Provide fieldwork and analytical services for current and future passive acoustic projects focused on multiple cetacean species.
• Support research planning and execution, management coordination, and administrative needs related to passive acoustics research.
• Work in the acoustics lab, conduct fieldwork related to acoustic data collection, analyze anthropogenic and biological sound sources, archive data, write reports or manuscripts, and present results.
• Provide general laboratory assistance, including data archiving, computer maintenance, and construction and maintenance of acoustic hydrophone recorders and associated oceanographic equipment.
• Participate in fieldwork as needed, including deployment and retrieval of drifting and moored hydrophones; deployment and real-time monitoring of towed hydrophone arrays, sonobuoys, and/or gliders; visual observation of anthropogenic and biological activities; and assistance with oceanographic data collection.
• Drive government vehicles when necessary to complete assigned tasks.
• Analyze and interpret archived acoustic data to detect, localize, and classify biological and anthropogenic sound sources.
• Conduct advanced analysis to address NOAA Fisheries Passive Acoustic Ecology Program research objectives, including leading or developing research ideas.
• Upload metadata to SEFSC acoustic databases and servers and maintain deployment and detection databases.
• Participate in periodic SEFSC, MMTD, and Passive Acoustic Ecology team meetings with Program Leads, NOAA Fisheries staff, and Center leadership.

Senior Bioacoustics Scientist

• Conduct and support research to improve laboratory and data analysis techniques that help understand distribution and abundance of marine and anadromous species.
• Support research that improves fishery management and conservation of anadromous and marine organisms at SEFSC within MMTD and across multiple divisions.
• Perform research developing, refining, and using molecular techniques to investigate marine and anadromous species.
• Participate in laboratory, field, and statistical projects and contribute substantively to research on molecular techniques for fisheries management, including eDNA.
• Analyze existing and future genomic datasets and facilitate project lead analysis, including development and testing of tools as needed.
• Conduct data analysis that may include RADseq analysis, WGS to variant calling, population genomics, landscape genetic analysis, source-sink dynamics, CKMR, metabarcoding bioinformatics analysis in marine fish and mammal species, and eDNA data analysis.
• Use statistical and computational approaches to assess data and results that influence fisheries management and conservation of marine and anadromous taxa.
• Continue development of robust data management planning and execution to meet Public Access to Research Results Act requirements.
• Work closely with the program manager to identify research priorities and conduct project management to ensure data is delivered efficiently and accurately.
• Construct deadlines and ensure deadlines are met or adjusted accordingly.
• Manage laboratory approaches, including assisting with purchasing and inventory and training new employees.
• Occasionally participate in collection and analysis of data on anadromous or marine organisms.
• Establish and nurture effective partnerships with internal and external scientists and resource managers from NOAA offices, Federal and State agencies, academic institutions, and international institutions.
• Collaborate with internal and external groups to share information and meet common objectives.
• Prepare management reports, information products, and presentations for general and technical audiences.
• Participate in publishing research in scientific journals as lead or co-author.
• Assist with reports, papers, presentations, or briefs on marine or fisheries-related information.
• Attend planning and coordination meetings with MMTD researchers, either virtually or in person.

Bioinformaticist

Content Writer

• Write, edit, and maintain accessibility documentation, including Voluntary Product Accessibility Templates (VPATs) and Accessibility Conformance Reports (ACRs)
• Translate WCAG 2.1/2.2 and Section 508 technical standards into clear guidance for developers, designers, and content creators
• Document accessibility remediation processes, testing procedures, and known issues
• Create and update accessibility style guides, checklists, and best-practice references
• Collaborate with accessibility testers and engineers to accurately capture compliance status and remediation timelines
• Review existing product documentation, help content, and UI copy for accessibility and plain-language compliance
• Maintain a repository of accessibility documentation and ensure version control
• Support responses to accessibility audits, procurement requests, and compliance inquiries
• Stay current on updates to Section 508, WCAG, and related federal accessibility regulations

Tech Writer – Compliance

Technician

• Electronic component level assembly, bench testing, diagnostics, troubleshooting and/or repair of electronic Line Replaceable Units and processing systems that require the application of a considerable number of different basic but established methods, procedures, and techniques
• Perform duties in an electronics laboratory environment using bench type electronic testing equipment.
• Conducting test and troubleshooting down to the component level for environmental monitoring sensors, data collection and processing systems.
• Using oscilloscopes, Digital Volt Meter, ammeters, pulse/function generators, resistance thermometers and waveform generators.
• Quality work following utilizing provided procedures, drawings and schematics.
• Tasks/assignments that require independent responsibility for following procedures, redline drawings, and time constraints for completing assigned tasks with limited supervision to ensure conformance with established policies, procedures, progress efforts and completion deadlines.