Fisheries Modeling Scientist

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Location:

Seattle, WA

Position:

Fisheries Modeling Scientist

Reports To:

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 Fisheries Modeling Scientist to develop, implement, and advance the NOAA Fisheries COMPASS (Comprehensive Passage) model and associated scientific information workflows to evaluate survival, migration, environmental stressors, and management actions across fish life cycles, including applications supporting ESA litigation and permitting.

* 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: $100,000 - $125,000

Position status: Full Time; with benefits

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

• Develop, maintain, and advance the Comprehensive Passage model for use in river systems and across fish life-cycle applications.
• Construct and implement statistical, biological, computational, and quantitative model components evaluating fish survival and migration through hydropower systems.
• Respond to analytical requests from the West Coast Regional Office and other NOAA partners supporting ESA litigation, consultation, and permitting.
• Integrate statistical modeling, computer modeling, quantitative ecological analysis, and scientific software development into reliable COMPASS workflows.
• Collaborate with regional managers and researchers to structure, synthesize, document, and manage environmental and biological data required by model components.
• Complete assigned modeling components and integrate them into COMPASS and life-cycle models for the Columbia River Basin and other systems as needed.
• Conduct all analyses using accepted scientific methods and QA/QC practices, including testing, validation, documentation, and peer review.
• Develop and share reproducible modeling scripts, methods, data-processing workflows, and research results through Git Hub and other open-science platforms.
• Prepare written status reports, ad hoc communications, technical reports, and journal manuscript contributions, and present results at regional and national meetings and scientific conferences.
• Assist with fish and environmental field collection in West Coast freshwater, estuarine, and nearshore marine environments when needed.

• Extensive experience in quantitative modeling, statistical analysis, ecological data analysis, and scientific software or script development.
• Advanced R programming skills, including design, execution, testing, debugging, and documentation of complex models and analytical workflows.
• Experience with Bayesian statistical methods and mark-recapture analysis is preferred.
• Experience with Stan and JAGS is preferred.
• Ability to interpret or interface with C or C++ code in…