Machine Learning Engineer at Lynker Corporation
College Park, MD
$95,000–$195,000
Jul 14, 2026
College Park, MD
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role centers on building an AI-driven Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis (AI-RTMA) system to support NOAA's National Blend of Models, working within the Environmental Modeling Center in College Park, MD. Day-to-day work spans designing data pipelines for observational datasets, training and evaluating machine learning models for weather data assimilation, and collaborating with NOAA scientists to shape system requirements. It suits engineers with hands-on experience applying ML to geophysical or earth observation data.
Senior level · Remote
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 3 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 18,700 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (data scientists). range 5,500–28,100
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $122,874 (middle half $87,544–$162,374).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The role sits at the boundary between Data Scientist (15-2051) and Software Developer (15-1252): it involves training and deploying ML models (data science) but also building production data pipelines and an operational AI system (software engineering). 15-2051 was chosen as primary because model development, training, evaluation, and geophysical/statistical methodology are the stated core.
The job description places the work location at NCWCP in College Park, MD, but the caller has declared this a fully-remote role; no metro has been inferred.
Earth observation data experience (conventional observations, satellite, radar) is listed under the required qualifications but names no specific named tool or platform, so it is omitted from the skills list per extraction rules.
Data assimilation, cloud-native formats (Zarr/Parquet), compiled languages, cloud platforms, version control, and job scheduling systems all appear under the 'Ideal' (preferred) section of the posting.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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