Senior Fisheries Biometrician

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Location:

Seattle, WA

Position:
Senior Fisheries Biometrician

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FLSA:
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 Fisheries Biometrician to serve as a senior statistical and ecological data scientist supporting NOAA Fisheries with advanced probabilistic, mark-recapture, survival, migration, and simulation analyses that inform management decisions for Pacific salmon and other West Coast fisheries resources.

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: $120,000 - $165,000

Position status: Full Time; with benefits

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

• Provide advanced statistical analysis to inform fisheries management, recovery, permitting, hydropower, and life-cycle decisions.
• Analyze spatial and temporal variability in processes affecting migrating salmon, including survival and migration through river and hydropower systems.
• Quantify relationships among fish density, growth, survival, migration rate, environmental conditions, ecological stressors, habitat metrics, and management actions.
• Develop novel probabilistic, mathematical, hierarchical, and simulation models representing complex ecological and behavioral processes.
• Provide statistical consultation and support to researchers during study design, sampling design, model selection, analysis, validation, and interpretation.
• Organize, curate, document, and quality-control ecological datasets used for mark-recapture and related statistical modeling.
• Conduct analyses using accepted methods and rigorous QA/QC, including code review, model diagnostics, sensitivity analysis, and transparent documentation.
• Develop and share reproducible analytical workflows, scripts, and research methods through Git Hub and other open-science platforms.
• Archive final data, models, scripts, and analysis products in accessible scientific repositories or interactive dashboards.
• Publish scientific papers and reports, maintain regular communication with team members, and present results at regional and national meetings and conferences.
• Assist with fish and environmental field collection in freshwater, estuarine, and nearshore marine environments as needed, including travel in vehicles or boats.

• Extensive expertise in statistical modeling, probability, simulation, Bayesian statistics, mark-recapture analysis, survival analysis, migration modeling, and ecological data analysis.
• Advanced proficiency coding and conducting analyses in R.
• Experience with Stan and JAGS for Bayesian modeling and posterior inference.
• Strong computational skills manipulating large environmental datasets in Linux or other command-line environments, including shell scripting.
• Ability to interpret, review, or interface with C or C++ code in a scientific modeling context.
• Experience with reproducible research, open-science practices, Git Hub, model documentation, scientific repositories, and analytical QA/QC.
• Familiarity with Pacific salmon, river and hydropower systems, West Coast species and habitats managed by NOAA Fisheries, and fisheries management applications.
• Experience with fisheries acoustics, autonomous observing systems, NetCDF, MATLAB, Echoview, or other marine ecological data technologies is beneficial but not required unless assigned to relevant datasets.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including peer-reviewed publication, technical reporting, scientific presentations, and statistical consultation.
• Proficiency with Google Workspace and Microsoft Office and ability to…