Senior Quantitative Fisheries Scientist

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Location:

Seattle, WA

Position:
Senior Quantitative Fisheries Scientist

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Exempt

Location:

Seattle, WA

Posted: 7/15/26

Job Description

Embrace the opportunity to join Innovate! Inc. and become a valued member of our team. We are seeking driven individuals who are passionate about leveraging technology to tackle environmental challenges and drive positive change. If you thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced environment and are eager to contribute your skills and expertise to innovative projects, we invite you to explore this exciting opportunity further.

Read on to learn more about how you can be part of our dynamic team.

Innovate! Inc. is seeking a highly experienced Senior Quantitative Fisheries Scientist to provide advanced quantitative ecological modeling and analytical support to expand and implement core components of NOAA Fisheries’ Northwest Salmon Life Cycle Modeling program and produce defensible, management-ready science for sustainable fisheries decisions.

* Contingent upon contract being awarded*

Location: Work will be conducted on-site at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, Washington (WA) or at one of its associated field stations in WA or Oregon

Salary Range: $90,000 - $130,000

Position status: Full Time; with benefits

Benefits include: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K with match, Life Insurance, and PTO

• Analyze spatial and temporal variability in the abundance and composition of fish, prey, competitors, predators, and habitats.
• Quantify relationships between fish responses - including density, biomass, growth, and survival - and environmental conditions, ecological stressors, habitat metrics, and management actions.
• Provide statistical and spatial analysis expertise for construction, expansion, implementation, and evaluation of fish life-cycle and stock-assessment models.
• Develop model components and simulations that evaluate cumulative effects of stressors and management actions across fish life cycles.
• Incorporate predator-prey relationships and other ecological interactions into model components, with particular emphasis on estuarine and nearshore domains.
• Design, test, validate, document, and maintain reproducible quantitative workflows, computer scripts, model methods, assumptions, and outputs.
• Share scripts, data, models, and research products through Git Hub, collaborative scientific platforms, public research repositories, or other approved open-science frameworks.
• Organize analysis products so they are accessible, transparent, and understandable to NOAA scientists and interdisciplinary collaborators.
• Write reports and status updates, contribute to peer-reviewed journal manuscripts, and present findings at regional meetings and scientific conferences.
• Collaborate with fisheries scientists, statisticians, GIS specialists, data managers, and natural resource managers to ensure analyses address management priorities.

• Advanced expertise in quantitative ecology, fisheries science, population dynamics, ecological modeling, statistical modeling, and data analysis.
• Strong proficiency with R and Python, Git Hub, GIS, and other scientific computing or collaborative modeling tools.
• Experience constructing or supporting fish life-cycle, stock-assessment, population, species distribution, or ecosystem models.
• Ability to analyze complex spatial and temporal datasets and evaluate ecological interactions, uncertainty, cumulative effects, and management scenarios.
• Knowledge of reproducible research, open-source scientific frameworks, model documentation, version control, and public research repositories.
• Familiarity with Pacific salmon, West Coast marine and anadromous species, and freshwater, estuarine, and nearshore ecological processes managed by NOAA Fisheries.
• Excellent written and verbal…