Data Scientist - Field Robotics and AI

** Overview*
* At PNNL, our core capabilities are divided among major departments that we refer to as Directorates within the Lab, focused on a specific area of scientific research or other function, with its own leadership team and dedicated budget.

Our Science & Technology directorates include National Security, Earth and Biological Sciences, Physical and Computational Sciences, and Energy and Environment. In addition, we have an Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a Department of Energy, Office of Science user facility housed on the PNNL campus.

The Energy and Environment Directorate delivers science and technology solutions for the nation's biggest energy and environmental challenges. Our more than 1,700 staff support the Department of Energy (DOE), delivering on key DOE mission areas including: modernizing our nation's power grid to maintain a reliable, affordable, secure, and resilient electricity delivery infrastructure; research, development, validation, and effective utilization of renewable energy and efficiency technologies that improve the affordability, reliability, resiliency, and security of the American energy system;

and resolving complex issues in nuclear science, energy, and environmental management.

The Coastal Sciences Division, part of the Energy and Environment Directorate, is headquartered at PNNL-Sequim, on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula. Our unique facility is the Department of Energy's only marine research laboratory, and the capabilities of its researchers deliver science and technology critical to the nation's energy, environmental, and security future. 

We focus on research related to marine and coastal resources, environmental chemistry, water resources modeling, marine engineering, environmental modeling and monitoring, and national security-the division is an emerging leader in three areas: 

+ Enabling sustainable development of ocean energy

+ Understanding and mitigating long-term impacts of human activities, including climate change, on marine resources

+ Protecting coastal environments from security threats.

** Responsibilities*
* Designs, develops, and implements methods, processes, and systems to analyze diverse data. Applies knowledge of statistics, machine learning, advanced mathematics, simulation, software development, and data modeling to integrate and clean data, recognize patterns, address uncertainty, pose questions, and make discoveries from structured and/or unstructured data. Produces solutions driven by exploratory data analysis from complex and high-dimensional datasets. Designs, develops, and evaluates predictive models and advanced algorithms that lead to optimal value extraction from the data.

Demonstrates ability to transfer skills across application domains.

The Coastal Sciences team at PNNL Sequim is small, close-knit, collegial, academically diverse, and comprised of around 80 researchers working in fields from marine autonomy to algal biofuels.

As a national lab, we work on research problems for a diverse sponsor set, for whom we seek to produce solutions to the greatest problems of our age. The specific work we do depends on the intersection of interests of our proposal-writing researchers and willing sponsors, and there is significant room to tailor work and responsibilities to research interests.

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's (PNNL) Coastal Sciences Division (CSD) is seeking a mid-career data scientist to work alongside its existing, close-knit, multi-disciplinary team to help continue to execute and grow its burgeoning portfolio in field robotics, sensing, and AI.

Innovation in the marine domain requires input from more than just marine scientists. Increasingly it requires roboticists, computer scientists, and ML engineers who can work along marine scientists and oceanographers to identify approaches to observe and understand the natural world using the latest and greatest of robotic, sensing, AI, and communication technologies. This role seeks to add an experienced researcher to the existing robotics, software, and AI team within Coastal Sciences.

We seek a professionally trained and experienced roboticist, computer…