Australian Bureau of Meteorology Hiring for Data Scientist – High Impact & Severe Weather Full Time

• Executive Level 2 Lower, Ongoing
• $125,428 – $140,871 + 15.4% super
• Any Bureau capital city office location

This position is offered jointly between the High Impact Weather Team within the Research Program and the Severe Weather Prediction Services Team within the Community Services Group at the Bureau of Meteorology. Duties will be evenly divided across these groups over the long term, but there will be shorter periods when one or the other predominates. The primary purpose is to enable the rapid adoption of research outcomes into operations, through prototyping and contributing to initial development of operational systems.

High Impact Weather team undertakes research and development to better understand and predict dangerous weather phenomena, ranging from tropical cyclones to heavy rainfall and flash flooding through to fire weather. Team activities range from research to improve underpinning meteorological knowledge of the behaviour of high impact weather systems, to development of applications enhancing prediction of high impact weather phenomena and communication of the results of these activities.

The position holder will lead development of scientific and technical solutions to address gaps in understanding of high impact weather and specific weather events. They will also lead development of improvements in applications to predict high impact weather and climate events. Their work will include close collaboration with other members of High Impact Weather team and Research more broadly in undertaking science and scientific programming developing applications.

A particular focus for the role will be in supporting and enhancing the newly implemented Australian Fire Danger Rating System and associated fire weather science and applications. The AFDRS commenced operation on 01 September 2022 and represents a step-change in the prediction of fire weather across Australia. In addition to increasing the range of vegetation for which predictions of fire danger are available, the system has been designed to be modular with the capacity to upgrade components as new science becomes available. The position holder will be very familiar with fire weather science, allowing them to identify and implement potential improvements in a straightforward manner.

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